N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2017

The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. My advice is to business leaders is this – don’t just throw money at the symptoms, fix the problem.

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Insourcing CEO Business Model Outsourcing 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. If you want to affect customer engagement, for example, you will need to develop or adapt multiple AI applications and tasks that relate to different aspects of marketing, sales, and service relationships.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. For example, Uber made a Where to Play choice that included China because it’s a huge and important market. But it didn’t work in the Where to Play of China.

First-mover Advantage 14

First-mover Advantage Retail Strategy Pharmaceuticals 14