N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

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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Leadership Business Model Engineering Fast Follower 282

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. Digital transformation is really more of a leadership, culture, strategy, and talent issue than a technology issue.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Sprints make an excellent commitment device — when you gather a team, clear the calendar, and schedule customer interviews, you commit to making progress. The leadership at Slack used the process to decide between two fundamentally different marketing approaches. Sprints encourage fast follow-up.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

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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