Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters. We were also a little too smitten with our technology, and assumed it would immediately appeal to the “early majority” – who as described in E.M.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

The most recent study, conducted in October 2015, surveyed 933 U.S. “Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. since 1999. adults sampled at random from a consumer research panel.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Early adopters in these verticals are using the IoT to pioneer new product areas and to find efficiencies that save money or reduce demand for resources. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Australia and China.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

You can see a strong precedent for this in the open source software movement, which didn''t go mainstream until its early adopters progressed through the ranks. Sometimes it''s a peer to the CMO, perhaps a chief digital officer, which Gartner predicts will be present in 25% of enterprises by 2015. They experiment aggressively.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology. Admittedly, this shift will be hardest on the established monoliths in the industry, for it will require uncomfortable transparency and price corrections in their business models. In the risk transfer process, at its simplest level, size does not matter.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape.

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