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Is Blogging Dead?

N2Growth Blog

” If you read this article it would lead you to believe blogging is in decline and on it’s way out as a marketing tool. Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters. To extend marketing efforts. To become famous. To make money.

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First Mover or Fast Follower?

Harvard Business Review

Many of these trends seem to fit historical patterns of transformation , which means banks need to up their innovation game. The first innovators in the market are often too early in the technology curve. Here's one of the biggest that would-be innovators should ask: Should I lead or follow? Do the panelists agree?".

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The Building Blocks of Successful Corporate IT

Harvard Business Review

Market leaders and fast followers seek transformational change; cautious adopters and laggards dip their toe into incremental change. Market leaders and cautious adopters proactively seek change; fast followers and laggards take a reactive approach. Organizational DNA. See accompanying chart.)

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5 Leadership Lessons: The Velocity Manifesto

Leading Blog

Technology enables velocity—the speed of getting products to market, the speed of delivery, the speed of analytics, and the list goes on. The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” Instead, you want to quickly follow the first movers who are trying to capitalize on a blossoming trend.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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The Way Forward for Samsung, and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The mobile devices that have been most affected by the jury's decision are a combination of the Android operating system, physical product design that's reacting to current market trends, and a hodgepodge of third-party apps and software. Samsung has built its name over the past two decades on being the world's greatest Fast Follower.