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Strong leaders may inspire people to join their cause, but it’s those early hires and early adopters – the fledgling community who believes in a company’s ideals – that will make or break a young business. It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. It’s an attitude reflected in our culture and on the surface, it appears to be the key to success. MORE
You can target early adopters. The breadth and variety of BPM tools has never been greater, yet the increasing availability of tools has not increased the success of BPM projects. The biggest barrier to BPM success is so often human related. MORE
Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Because early adopters are used to products that break. They mostly don't care about being able to step back from the brink — that's the price they pay for being early adopters. Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. The feature? MORE
I was not one of social media’s early adopters. I finally got on Facebook in 2009, roughly the same time as your grandmother. Twitter? Not until 2011. All those hashtags and short URLs confused me. MORE
Different segments have different risk tolerances, ways of making decisions, and — perhaps most challenging for growing businesses — preferences for when and how they adopt innovations. First, what worked with early adopters isn’t likely to work with later adopters. MORE
And what can it tell us about some of the prerequisites for change adoption? Seeing others driving the car not only made it safe, but made me realize if I wanted to be on the early adoption side of the curve, I would have to hurry up! MORE
But, it’s better to get feedback from early customers, not board members. Build content early and often. Since iteration is a way of life in startup marketing, start drafting content early to hit your deadlines. MORE
Smith and O''Connell go on to explain that: Given the importance of peer influence, people need to perceive that respected peers are adopting change. MORE
A couple of weeks ago, at the Inc 500 Conference in DC, I was having dinner with my good friend and colleague Ari Weinzweig (co-founding partner and CEO of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses and early adopter of Bootist Leadership ) when I felt like I was going to choke. MORE
I’m an early adopter. Tweet Yup. I’m buying an iPad2. In fact, I’m going to go wait in line at Best Buy for the 5pm release on Friday, March 11. I’m excited. Some of my friends and followers have asked me a simple question when I bring it up: Why? MORE
How hard could it be for others to adopt it? The early adopters are usually a minority. There is a competitor that you should be scared of. And that competitor is… Drum roll. Status Quo. MORE
There is little or no point in worrying about the later steps until you have taken care of the early ones. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? MORE
With only a few customers in the early stage of the game, any open-ended conversation with someone interested in what we’re doing is welcomed with enthusiasm. A different bank, for example, recently created an incubator where early-stage ideas could be seen and worked on by employees only. MORE
Empower Willing Change Leaders: The most successful change efforts include the early adopters and use internal, front-line change agents to sway the majority. There are two types of organizational change: change that is mandated and change that is proactive. MORE
Common sense calls for enlisting the early adopters first to gain momentum while keeping the more difficult converts at bay. However difficult it may be to deal with their resistance up front, involving them early may be less painful than trying to have them jump into the project after much work has been done without their input. During the course of any change initiative, you may come across those whom you prefer to keep at arm’s length from the change. MORE
Smith and O''Connell go on to explain that: Given the importance of peer influence, people need to perceive that respected peers are adopting change. MORE
Once these early adopters are moving product, others will not be able to blame anyone but themselves for missing targets. This is a post by August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks : One CEO''s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity. MORE
How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions? They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. But beyond product and technology innovations, more widespread adoption can only happen if the behavior of individual farms changes in a fundamental way. MORE
People who are early adopters of the execution need encouragement to take risks. The bold areas above come together to make up the Implementation Compass ™ - a framework for identifying the right actions, adopted by governments and companies. MORE
I often see products that sell lots in the first few week - this is normal early adopter. BlackBerry 10 launched today. There has been lots written about it so not for me to share anything new. Lots of apps, lightning fast surfing etc. The device looks like a winner - but will it be? I think the next 90 days will tell. Then the sales either grow exponentially or fizzle. Largely depending on how well the market accepts the product. MORE
There’s no need for leaders to be early adopters of technology, though that would be great. The best leaders have a propensity for looking for ways to leverage digital technology for competitive gain.If you want to be a great leader , you absolutely have to develop a digital mindset. It’s the only way you can help your business leverage data and information technologies in the pursuit of growth and profitability. Why, you ask? MORE
Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Entrepreneurs are initiators, challengers, and drivers. Entrepreneurs create something new-whether it’s an initiative, a business, or a company. Being an entrepreneur means you are willing to take the less traveled path, embrace ambiguity, and take on challenges, but it’s not an easy path, even if you feel you are all ready, geared up, and excited. MORE
Businesses like restaurants and microbreweries–those with strong brand loyalty that can quickly connect to a large crowd of customers and supporters–have been early adopters. Jones says that if you’re an early-stage company considering this approach, one of the first things to do is pick the right person to conduct your offer at the right portal. MORE
Scale things – Once you have both some successful results on a small scale AND emotional buy-in from the key early adopters across your organisation, you can then look to scale things. Social media has proved pretty effective at changing the world and how we communicate with one another. It is also slowly changing our organisations, and as with any organisation, HR is right in the middle of the change. MORE
However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. MORE
Technology changes faster than individuals can adopt it (the adoption gap ); individuals adapt more quickly to that change than organizations can (the adaptation gap ), and organizations adjust more quickly than legal and societal institutions can (the assimilation gap ). MORE
This will appeal to both early adopters (who can spread the word) and customers not being served by current DVD rental businesses. MORE
In a better and cheaper world, you use the term big bang disruption or the sort of shark fin to describe what this model looks like, that you scale up to those early adopters becoming the majority way quicker than you can predict nowadays. We call them trial users, because they’re much more than early adopters; they’re the people that not only work with the kind of experimental versions of the product. LARRY: The risk, of course, is if you do it too early. MORE
Students who were brave early adopters followed them, filling their plates and heading for a table to show off to their buddies, all with the admiration of the instructors. Change Management Army Jungle Survival School Camp Sherman Early Adopters military Vietnam MORE
In any organization, there’s always going to be about 10% early adopters, 80% that will eventually get on board if you can convince them and show them how, and 10% that are just going to dig their heels in and refuse to try anything new or different. MORE
The Left-Siders by Simon Sinek ( blog ). The world is a bell curve. Class room test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you’re studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve. MORE
And what about the baby boomers who are “can-do,” purpose-driven early adopters who care more about learning than a gold watch, use Snapchat and listen to Jay Z?” We can thank Hapeville, GA native Jeff Foxworthy for giving rednecks their due. MORE
In just 8 short weeks, The Myths of Creativity , will hit the shelves of bookstores everywhere. We’ve already been overwhelmed by the love people are showing for the book by pre-ordering it. MORE
When a new industry surfaces, the early adopters (first-movers) set-up shop, validate proof of concept, carve out their niche, and build very strong, if not in some cases, category dominant brands. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I read an interesting article in Inc. MORE
Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.” Disruptive innovators and strategic marketers take note: “Breakthrough” innovation depends less on design thinking and user experience than how well your lead users/early adopters “brand” your breakthroughs in the mind of the marketplace. Your lead users or early adopters may be technically brilliant. MORE
People are commonly referred to as ‘buyers,’ ‘shoppers,’ ‘payers,’ ‘non-responders,’ ‘early adopters,’ and ‘eyeballs.’ MORE
Business Model: As an early adopter and co-creator of Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) , I use it the most. MORE
Moore, the renowned high-tech strategist and author, perhaps best known for his book, Crossing the Chasm, a guide to helping firms move from early adopters across this fateful and often fatal canyon, is back with his latest book, Escape Velocity-Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past. MORE
It occurs in stages: Structuring an external product “love group” Transforming the love group into early platform adopters. Leveraging early adopters to accelerate platform adoption. Platforms can be a strong source of competitive advantage. MORE
“His parents were simply early adopters of what will become an essential learning tool for the next generation.” ” (speaking of a three year old in Sweden working “on his music” on an iPad). – Michael Saylor, The Mobile Wave —————- Here’s a short but important thought for a Saturday. I’n in Natchitoches, LA, for our [.]. Randy's blog entries MORE
Just how early do you need to be an early adopter? Pretty early. The pace of change is breathtaking. You can fall behind in a heartbeat. And somebody, somewhere, is trying to move ahead of you right now. And someone else is trying to move ahead of the someone who is trying to move ahead […]. Randy''s blog entries MORE
” Early Adopter vs. Early Innovator. People might describe me having “an early adopter problem,” but I disagree (unless they are trying to describe my audience and not me): being an early innovator is not the same thing as being an early adopter. MORE
The alternative you present must be better not just for the believers but for those outside the early adopter group. Yet that wasn’t a value, it was an early manifestation of a value. T HE NATURE OF POWER has shifted from top-down to the center of networks. MORE
As individuals, we take our cues from the early adopters and we learn what to do – and what not to do. Guest post By Russell Raath : There are many descriptors for the world we live in. Volatile, complex, global, flat, uncertain, unpredictable, and on. MORE
Early Adopters Related Topics LDRLB
AUGUST 26, 2013
In just 8 short weeks, The Myths of Creativity , will hit the shelves of bookstores everywhere. We’ve already been overwhelmed by the love people are showing for the book by pre-ordering it.
CO2
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
The Left-Siders by Simon Sinek ( blog ). The world is a bell curve. Class room test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you’re studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 4, 2012
“His parents were simply early adopters of what will become an essential learning tool for the next generation.” ” (speaking of a three year old in Sweden working “on his music” on an iPad). – Michael Saylor, The Mobile Wave —————- Here’s a short but important thought for a Saturday. I’n in Natchitoches, LA, for our [.]. Randy's blog entries
First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 7, 2013
Just how early do you need to be an early adopter? Pretty early. The pace of change is breathtaking. You can fall behind in a heartbeat. And somebody, somewhere, is trying to move ahead of you right now. And someone else is trying to move ahead of the someone who is trying to move ahead […]. Randy''s blog entries
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 26, 2016
” Early Adopter vs. Early Innovator. People might describe me having “an early adopter problem,” but I disagree (unless they are trying to describe my audience and not me): being an early innovator is not the same thing as being an early adopter.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2014
Students who were brave early adopters followed them, filling their plates and heading for a table to show off to their buddies, all with the admiration of the instructors. Change Management Army Jungle Survival School Camp Sherman Early Adopters military Vietnam
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.
Leading Blog
APRIL 24, 2019
Technology changes faster than individuals can adopt it (the adoption gap ); individuals adapt more quickly to that change than organizations can (the adaptation gap ), and organizations adjust more quickly than legal and societal institutions can (the assimilation gap ).
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 9, 2019
There’s no need for leaders to be early adopters of technology, though that would be great. The best leaders have a propensity for looking for ways to leverage digital technology for competitive gain.If you want to be a great leader , you absolutely have to develop a digital mindset. It’s the only way you can help your business leverage data and information technologies in the pursuit of growth and profitability. Why, you ask?
Lead Change Blog
JULY 2, 2015
Empower Willing Change Leaders: The most successful change efforts include the early adopters and use internal, front-line change agents to sway the majority. There are two types of organizational change: change that is mandated and change that is proactive.
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 that wasn’t a value, it was an early manifestation of a value. T HE NATURE OF POWER has shifted from top-down to the center of networks.
CEO Blog
JANUARY 30, 2013
I often see products that sell lots in the first few week - this is normal early adopter. BlackBerry 10 launched today. There has been lots written about it so not for me to share anything new. Lots of apps, lightning fast surfing etc. The device looks like a winner - but will it be? I think the next 90 days will tell. Then the sales either grow exponentially or fizzle. Largely depending on how well the market accepts the product.
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 24, 2017
People who are early adopters of the execution need encouragement to take risks. The bold areas above come together to make up the Implementation Compass ™ - a framework for identifying the right actions, adopted by governments and companies.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 29, 2012
When a new industry surfaces, the early adopters (first-movers) set-up shop, validate proof of concept, carve out their niche, and build very strong, if not in some cases, category dominant brands. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I read an interesting article in Inc.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 18, 2016
And what about the baby boomers who are “can-do,” purpose-driven early adopters who care more about learning than a gold watch, use Snapchat and listen to Jay Z?” We can thank Hapeville, GA native Jeff Foxworthy for giving rednecks their due.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Once these early adopters are moving product, others will not be able to blame anyone but themselves for missing targets. This is a post by August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks : One CEO''s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity.
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 24, 2013
In any organization, there’s always going to be about 10% early adopters, 80% that will eventually get on board if you can convince them and show them how, and 10% that are just going to dig their heels in and refuse to try anything new or different.
Eric Jacobson
MAY 19, 2014
Smith and O''Connell go on to explain that: Given the importance of peer influence, people need to perceive that respected peers are adopting change.
Great Leadership By Dan
MAY 4, 2017
But, it’s better to get feedback from early customers, not board members. Build content early and often. Since iteration is a way of life in startup marketing, start drafting content early to hit your deadlines.
Management Excellence
OCTOBER 19, 2011
Moore, the renowned high-tech strategist and author, perhaps best known for his book, Crossing the Chasm, a guide to helping firms move from early adopters across this fateful and often fatal canyon, is back with his latest book, Escape Velocity-Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past.
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Smith and O''Connell go on to explain that: Given the importance of peer influence, people need to perceive that respected peers are adopting change.
Change Starts Here
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
There is little or no point in worrying about the later steps until you have taken care of the early ones. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model?
Great Leadership By Dan
DECEMBER 19, 2013
As individuals, we take our cues from the early adopters and we learn what to do – and what not to do. Guest post By Russell Raath : There are many descriptors for the world we live in. Volatile, complex, global, flat, uncertain, unpredictable, and on.
LDRLB
APRIL 10, 2014
With only a few customers in the early stage of the game, any open-ended conversation with someone interested in what we’re doing is welcomed with enthusiasm. A different bank, for example, recently created an incubator where early-stage ideas could be seen and worked on by employees only.
Great Leadership By Dan
JANUARY 26, 2012
This will appeal to both early adopters (who can spread the word) and customers not being served by current DVD rental businesses.
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
Strong leaders may inspire people to join their cause, but it’s those early hires and early adopters – the fledgling community who believes in a company’s ideals – that will make or break a young business. It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. It’s an attitude reflected in our culture and on the surface, it appears to be the key to success.
Change Starts Here
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
And what can it tell us about some of the prerequisites for change adoption? Seeing others driving the car not only made it safe, but made me realize if I wanted to be on the early adoption side of the curve, I would have to hurry up!
Mills Scofield
JUNE 9, 2014
Business Model: As an early adopter and co-creator of Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) , I use it the most.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 15, 2015
Different segments have different risk tolerances, ways of making decisions, and — perhaps most challenging for growing businesses — preferences for when and how they adopt innovations. First, what worked with early adopters isn’t likely to work with later adopters.
Tim Milburn
MARCH 10, 2011
I’m an early adopter. Tweet Yup. I’m buying an iPad2. In fact, I’m going to go wait in line at Best Buy for the 5pm release on Friday, March 11. I’m excited. Some of my friends and followers have asked me a simple question when I bring it up: Why?
Steve Farber
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Businesses like restaurants and microbreweries–those with strong brand loyalty that can quickly connect to a large crowd of customers and supporters–have been early adopters. Jones says that if you’re an early-stage company considering this approach, one of the first things to do is pick the right person to conduct your offer at the right portal.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.” Disruptive innovators and strategic marketers take note: “Breakthrough” innovation depends less on design thinking and user experience than how well your lead users/early adopters “brand” your breakthroughs in the mind of the marketplace. Your lead users or early adopters may be technically brilliant.
Chartered Management Institute
MARCH 4, 2012
You can target early adopters. The breadth and variety of BPM tools has never been greater, yet the increasing availability of tools has not increased the success of BPM projects. The biggest barrier to BPM success is so often human related.
Change Starts Here
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Common sense calls for enlisting the early adopters first to gain momentum while keeping the more difficult converts at bay. However difficult it may be to deal with their resistance up front, involving them early may be less painful than trying to have them jump into the project after much work has been done without their input. During the course of any change initiative, you may come across those whom you prefer to keep at arm’s length from the change.
Rajesh Setty
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
How hard could it be for others to adopt it? The early adopters are usually a minority. There is a competitor that you should be scared of. And that competitor is… Drum roll. Status Quo.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
People are commonly referred to as ‘buyers,’ ‘shoppers,’ ‘payers,’ ‘non-responders,’ ‘early adopters,’ and ‘eyeballs.’
Chartered Management Institute
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Scale things – Once you have both some successful results on a small scale AND emotional buy-in from the key early adopters across your organisation, you can then look to scale things. Social media has proved pretty effective at changing the world and how we communicate with one another. It is also slowly changing our organisations, and as with any organisation, HR is right in the middle of the change.
Lead from Within
JUNE 10, 2018
Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Entrepreneurs are initiators, challengers, and drivers. Entrepreneurs create something new-whether it’s an initiative, a business, or a company. Being an entrepreneur means you are willing to take the less traveled path, embrace ambiguity, and take on challenges, but it’s not an easy path, even if you feel you are all ready, geared up, and excited.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 31, 2013
How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions? They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. But beyond product and technology innovations, more widespread adoption can only happen if the behavior of individual farms changes in a fundamental way.
LDRLB
MAY 26, 2014
In a better and cheaper world, you use the term big bang disruption or the sort of shark fin to describe what this model looks like, that you scale up to those early adopters becoming the majority way quicker than you can predict nowadays. We call them trial users, because they’re much more than early adopters; they’re the people that not only work with the kind of experimental versions of the product. LARRY: The risk, of course, is if you do it too early.
Anese Cavanaugh
OCTOBER 11, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, at the Inc 500 Conference in DC, I was having dinner with my good friend and colleague Ari Weinzweig (co-founding partner and CEO of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses and early adopter of Bootist Leadership ) when I felt like I was going to choke.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2010
Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Because early adopters are used to products that break. They mostly don't care about being able to step back from the brink — that's the price they pay for being early adopters. Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. The feature?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 7, 2016
It occurs in stages: Structuring an external product “love group” Transforming the love group into early platform adopters. Leveraging early adopters to accelerate platform adoption. Platforms can be a strong source of competitive advantage.
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