Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

We tend to overestimate the power of influence. The best-known example of the threshold model at work is the diffusion of innovations model developed by Everett Rogers , in which a small group of innovators gets hold of an idea and indoctrinates a somewhat more reluctant group of early adopters to form local majorities.

Leadership 15

Leadership Early Adopters Video Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

A few are entrepreneurial start-ups desperate for closer ties with their early adopter clientele. The irony was that marketing and product development had invested hours refining their "new release" PowerPoint presentation and demos. Or is the purpose of their presence to influence the roadmap's cartography and inform strategy?

Software 15

Software Critical Success Factor Early Adopters B2B 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Certain project leaders at IBM started an initiative to build a community of web fans, i.e. early adopters of the web, that would subsequently transform the company. The group developed an internal “Get Connected” manifesto that helped guide and leverage the web at IBM.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2019

The alternative you present must be better not just for the believers but for those outside the early adopter group. Yet by continually making new connections, they were able to shift the center of the networks and gain influence. For Gandhi it was salt. For Paul O’Neill of Alcoa, it was safety. The keystone is critical.

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Resistance Participative Early Adopters Learning-by-Doing 285

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Large numbers of developers responded, and some offered immensely popular applications such as Printicular from MEA Labs , which allows users to print photos at Walgreens from either their phones or their accounts with Facebook, Instagram, or Dropbox. In its early days, its user interface was not good enough for regular users.

Levitt 8

Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? Are their particular game situations where their positive—or negative—influence is statistically pronounced? How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts?

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Team Sports Franchising Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

This depends partly on how long it takes to develop talent domestically. open-source software libraries for machine learning such as TensorFlow, Caffe, Theano, and MOOCS for learning machine learning online) some skills can be developed in short order. However, developing the Ph.D. China is a leader, not a follower or a copycat.

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Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Netflix was thus able to develop its internationalization capabilities in locations where the challenges of “foreignness” were less acute. The choice of those markets was influenced by their degree of attractiveness, such as from shared similarities, the presence of affluent consumers, and the availability of broadband internet.

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First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Netflix was thus able to develop its internationalization capabilities in locations where the challenges of “foreignness” were less acute. The choice of those markets was influenced by their degree of attractiveness, such as from shared similarities, the presence of affluent consumers, and the availability of broadband internet.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Some of us are “innovators” or “early adopters” whilst others are “laggards” The vast majority of us sit in the middle of the population as “The early or late majority” Again this is a people led model of change. What had I missed? So what has my surfing taught me?

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ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Machine learning challenges have significantly increased in complexity since then and it takes years of training and experience to develop a well-honed intuition that can sniff these problems out. Each practice serves to influence the other. Researchers will be familiar with this phenomenon, known as Simpson’s paradox.

How To 8

How To Technology Learning-by-Doing Industry 8

LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

How do you multiply your influence? DAVID: And the book in that aim is the latest culmination of that goal, Ready to Be a Thought Leader: How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success. It’s the same thing you can use, this ripples of influence thing, to become a thought leader. This is second chapter.

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Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Even the most sophisticated psychometrics and people analytics have yet to make leadership development more science than art. What do they actually do that influences and inspires? Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Those answers begin building productive paths and platforms for leadership development. Insight Center.

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Examples Charisma Self-aware Mission Statement 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate). It was supposed to provoke deeper thinking about capitalism and its future, but many early adopters understood the concept as a balancing act, adopting a trade-off mentality.

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TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Get influencers onboard. In the early stages of the launch, focus on getting “a network of champions” fully invested in the new technology, so they can “coach others on how to use the tools to their benefit,” says Bonnet. . “Getting those folks on board early is critical.”

Technology 8

Technology CRM Training System 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2017

There are two types of PR firms: “upstream” strategic firms that have a seat at the big table in developing positioning and messaging, and “downstream” implementation firms. You can never have enough content, so start developing—and reviewing—it the moment your positioning is finalized. Website UX trumps brand.

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Succession PR Venture Capitalist B2C 124

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The raw data were just numbers, although they helped reveal interesting information — that none of my life activities (commuting, tea drinking, work) influence my blood pressure. To launch I2B2, the leaders of that effort assembled a coalition of senior IT people, throughout Harvard’s hospitals, who became early adopters.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8