Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Leveraging early adopters to accelerate platform adoption. Makerbot, the 3D-printer developer, followed this approach by first attracting a group of devoted product fans among the maker community and rallying them to the cause of making desktop 3D printing accessible to all. Sponsored by Accenture.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

But Loveman’s intuition about the value of loyalty and service was enough to propel years of analytics projects in those areas. Loveman insists on an ROI from each analytics project at Caesars. Intuition plays an important role at the early stages of analytics strategy, however. Well, no, as it turns out.

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Loyalty Early Adopters Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe. When the IoT trend started surfacing, we, like many other copmanies, pored over the analysts’ projections. ” When in Doubt, Go Modular.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This scenario is characterized by many divergent projects, fragmented activities that have little in common with the initial strategic plan, and projects that do not fit together. The company had expanded into too many different and overly complex projects, which essentially created high levels of strategic stress.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Observing early adopters, we’ve found that automated process change comes in three main flavors: self-adapting, self-repairing, or a combination of the two. Some organizations are already deploying elements of process change automation, while others are developing technologies that lay the foundation for it.

Process 9

Process Automotive Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Health Care Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

This is explains why executives at Kodak chose not to pursue digital cameras after the first one was developed in their own lab. Everett Rodgers, a sociology professor at Ohio State University published the now famous Diffusion of Innovation in 1962 and coined the term “early adopter.”

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Film Reference Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

” That’s why he urges startups to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers before beginning product development in earnest. It is the passionate early adopters who help you to gain traction, see what works and what else may be needed to make the product successful.

Company 8

Company Team Due Diligence Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Large decreases in costs by eliminating the waste of fully developing features that fail in the market. They require uncommon teamwork between marketing-oriented product managers and software developers with a technical orientation. Improvements in quality, reductions in errors, and greater reliability. Consider Etsy Inc.,

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Software Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. The integrated management is based on software developed by our own IT department. This project just started its operations and we are learning each day to maximize all the utilities of the software and IT system for our everyday routine. This was unacceptable.

Software 14

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

No longer will all developers be assigned to project work. These products are typically not for sale, but they do go through a defined development process and provide clear business benefits. A core set of very good features hook early adopters, and teams quickly learn what users value.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” That suggests that they may be trying to persuade firms to buy the device and develop applications for it. Many students voted for the first scenario.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. In 2010, J.P

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Previously a straggling and struggling conglomerate, it bravely focused 100% on mobile communications, was an early adopter and driver of 2G technology, and quickly became a recognised world leader in both supply chain management and brand-building. The signs are there.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Bake some humor and play into your office tools — for example, by choosing tools that use humor in their messages (like Slack) , or giving your Basecamp projects silly names — or better yet, by encouraging your employees to explore the way technology can support their personal interests and hobbies.

Skills 8

Skills Organization Software Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

For 36 years, the company has used only first-year savings to tally the benefits of pollution prevention projects — that's an effective discount rate of, well, infinity. The company's core new product development process includes key sustainability questions and criteria for designers to address.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

AI isn’t a science project; it’s commercially important. 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.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Today connected spenders count for about 19% of the global population, and that is projected to grow to 37% by 2025. Connected spenders are the heaviest purchasers in categories including electronics, travel, and dining out, and they’re likely to be early adopters of new ways to buy in any category.

Maturity 8

Maturity Advertising Marketing Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The workplace adoption of RPA differs from classic business process automation in two important respects: The developer hoping to automate a task does not need to have programming skills. And thus (because RPA projects do not require expensive IT skills), the threshold of processes worth automating is substantially lowered.

Case Study 8

Case Study Software Process Operations 8

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Have you been forcing all projects to fit a single methodology because it’s what you know? It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? Did the early adopters move through the Kubler-Ross change curve faster? Written by James Lawther for the Enclaria blog.

ADKAR 60

ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Even the most sophisticated psychometrics and people analytics have yet to make leadership development more science than art. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Those answers begin building productive paths and platforms for leadership development. Growing effective leaders is challenging work. Insight Center.

Examples 13

Examples Charisma Self-aware Mission Statement 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology. When we buy an insurance policy at an individual household level or for a large, complex business or project, the only items that seal the deal are some papers with promissory statements.

Insurance 11

Insurance Industry Policies Market Penetration 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

New developments in data science offer a tremendous opportunity to improve decision-making. Work with early adopters to demonstrate significant wins which are visible to the whole organization. In addition to the examples above, AIG currently has around a dozen decision making related projects at various stages of development.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

New developments in data science offer a tremendous opportunity to improve decision-making. Work with early adopters to demonstrate significant wins which are visible to the whole organization. In addition to the examples above, AIG currently has around a dozen decision making related projects at various stages of development.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 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. Mass market acceptance is rare.

Marketing 14

Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

With support at all levels, the project was funded, new support staff were hired, and the rollout ensued. To launch I2B2, the leaders of that effort assembled a coalition of senior IT people, throughout Harvard’s hospitals, who became early adopters. My wife was treated successfully and is now cancer-free.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects. IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8