Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. This is where you take early adopters who want to make a change. The advice I would give is: Keep the pressure up.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. In a better and cheaper world, you use the term big bang disruption or the sort of shark fin to describe what this model looks like, that you scale up to those early adopters becoming the majority way quicker than you can predict nowadays. In this case, it’s not.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We estimate that robotization, digitization, digital self-services, distributed digital advice and sales, and robo-advisors could result in a 60-70% reduction in the workforces of service providers, from financial services to telecom. So early preparation is needed. Manufacturers have already seen reductions, albeit at lower levels.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

That’s great advice and not just for startups. It is the passionate early adopters who help you to gain traction, see what works and what else may be needed to make the product successful. Product managers work on issues such as pricing, legal compliance and positioning.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Research conducted by one of us (Kartik) on automated product recommendation algorithms, such as Amazon’s “People Who Bought X also bought Y,” found that people like algorithmic recommendations and often follow their advice. These early adopters work out the kinks and make the technology understandable to the general public.

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Participative Technology Learning-by-Doing Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. They need clients — that is, purchase orders — far more than advice or capital. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Private equity firms and insurers were among the early adopters, utilizing these innovations for investment pre-screening and claims automation. Enhanced efficiency enables financial professionals to focus on high-value activities like client relationship management and strategic decision-making.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

DAVID: I think there’s a lot to that especially what I’ve seen is … People, especially the initial early adopters, the initial followers, but I think people in general, whether they follow a movement or an idea or a person, they usually don’t follow the person for what they are a hundred percent.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2017

Getting their input offline is both good business and good politics; but when we see board members “dropping in” to the startup’s offices frequently prior to launch, it’s usually a red flag, a signal that the CEO is not strong enough to manage his board. But, it’s better to get feedback from early customers, not board members.

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