Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. These tools make a PM’s work life much easier. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing.

Early Adopters 154

Early Adopters Productivity Products Marketing 154

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. In this case, it’s not.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

Survey 9

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As always with technology adoption, there is an S-curve, already being scribbled by early adopters; when the inflection point is reached, expect sudden acceleration. So early preparation is needed. To that end, managers should develop a list of 10 to 15 processes that bots can quickly improve.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

So Adobe invested in R&D and made some analytics-based acquisitions in order to develop a platform to make that possible. Those insights came from the research Adobe had done to develop the platform, as well as the data the platform was already generating from early adopters. Retailers were all ears.

Content 8

Content Marketing B2C Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. Processes and tools for understanding root causes. Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals.

Incentives 10

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

AI is a transformative series of tools that can accelerate productivity, drive insight, and open up unexplored revenue streams. It’s poised to revolutionize the way we do business and everyone in a leadership role should be thinking about it. Artificial intelligence (AI) is unlikely to be one of them.

How To 8

How To Technology Learning-by-Doing Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Based on this insight, Gimmy proposed a radical rethinking and new corporate venturing tool to boost corporate innovation: the “venture client” model. Creating the Venture Client Model.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

So Acumen finds entrepreneurs on site in the developing world, funds them, teaches them and pushes them to build really big organizations. As a result, stores in the developing world tend to be stocked with the classic, the tried and true, because people buy refills of previous purchases, not the new. So you see the paradox.

Marketing 14

Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 14

ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

Especially when members of your values discovery group are skeptical about the potential impact of spending time on core value development, you must set clear expectations. This is a great tool to get some less desirable applicants to self-select out of your hiring process. 2 – Give context and get buy-in.

Process 52

Process Groupthink Company Document 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’d like to discuss three BIDMC big-data applications that required both technical expertise and leadership — and that have helped our patients, including my family and me. 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