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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Even the swiftest of fast followers will struggle to not choke on the dust of first movers in today’s world. Beating your competition to the future will be accomplished by those companies with vision, talent, grit, purpose, agility, creativity, commitment and determination – not just those organizations with bigger budgets.

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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

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. What has changed is the pace and scale at which businesses must innovate to remain competitive in a digital world.

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Is Blogging Dead?

N2Growth Blog

The truth of the matter is blogging requires a committed effort, which many find to be unsustainable. Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters. Microblogging (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) Where Are We Now?

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Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

Sprints make an excellent commitment device — when you gather a team, clear the calendar, and schedule customer interviews, you commit to making progress. Sprints encourage fast follow-up. Peter Bregman. Sprints help you start. When a big problem is looming, it can be tough to dig in.

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Verizon, the iPhone, and the Power of Second Chances

Harvard Business Review

There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever. But one thing is certain: Learning from a missed opportunity and then innovating beyond it helps anyone get back in the game.

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Amazon's Fire and the New Integrated Platform

Harvard Business Review

Even when Bezos appears to be a fast follower, he's attempting to generate leapfrog momentum. But make no mistake: Amazon appears committed to branding itself as the best value-for-money place in the world to shop for atoms and consume bits.

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The Way Forward for Samsung, and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Simply (and remarkably), every moment a user spends with an Apple product or service feels like Apple, and this is a direct result of its fervent commitment to a seamless experience. Samsung has built its name over the past two decades on being the world's greatest Fast Follower. Until recently, this wasn't such a big deal.