Lead Change Blog

JULY 29, 2019

Individuals may fall into three categories: early adopters, late adopters, and resistors. However, to move your change agenda forward, the early adopters and late adopters are your change agents and will help bring the resistors along the change continuum.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

It’s all about finding the early adopters and getting them to help you provide social proof and spread the word to encourage others to try out new behaviors. One of the best ways to do this is to find peers and colleagues working to lead similar change efforts on their teams.

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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.

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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' There was much, much more.

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Engaging Leader

JULY 17, 2013

I was not one of social media’s early adopters. I finally got on Facebook in 2009, roughly the same time as your grandmother. Not until 2011. All those hashtags and short URLs confused me. BTW, my first-ever tweet: [link] I quickly discovered that social media isn’t rising so quickly because the tech is sexy. […].

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Early adoption. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these investments centered around things such as remote working technology and associated technologies, such as cybersecurity and cloud. The study also revealed innovations in non-technical fields, such as the introduction of new management practices and business models.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

When the COVID quarantine began, the early adopters/adapters on his team realized that since connecting with people is the central part of their job, they were going to have to find new ways to do it.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

The early adoption of any innovation comes with inevitable risks that can complicate its diffusion. Uncertain spread. For instance, the paper cites the example of the L-1011 and DC-10 aircraft.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 9, 2019

There’s no need for leaders to be early adopters of technology, though that would be great. How else could he have endeavored to create something as seemingly preposterous as a phone that could play music, take pictures and access the Internet–and make a go of it? Technology Adept.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 30, 2013

I often see products that sell lots in the first few week - this is normal early adopter. 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.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The research examines the Product Hunt platform, where entrepreneurs can test out their concept among early adopters, who offer feedback on whether the product is good or not. Recent research from Harvard Business School suggests this might even extend to the feedback they receive.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

“Communicating to a wider audience seems therefore to be more of a developing norm with enthusiastic early adopters than a widely exercised practice. This is emphasized by the fact that only 12% of respondents reported to having achieved an outstanding result using innovative dissemination channels.”

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. By 2010, around 75% of the sample had adopted some form of predictive analytics, although most of these firms only used the tools sporadically, despite higher intensity use being linked with greater returns.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

While older generations have much to learn from the millennials, the fact that they are early adopters doesn’t mean they necessarily know how to adapt that technology in an organizational setting. The focus for all needs to be on lifelong learning. Even for the digital natives, time marches on.

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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. Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 23, 2021

Early adopter companies using AI-powered recruiting software have seen their cost per screen reduced by 75%, their revenue per employee improve by 4%, and their turnover decrease by 35%. Screening resumes and shortlisting candidates to interview is estimated to take 23 hours of a recruiter’s time for a single hire.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 10, 2021

Successful AI/ML implementation has clear benefits for early adopters — As organisations look to the future, IT and operations are the leading areas where they plan on adding AI and ML capabilities.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2020

The researchers set out to explore what set the early adopters apart from their peers, and trawled through the database of academic papers held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. While many researchers jumped on the opportunity, however, this enthusiasm was far from universal. Creating impact.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2021

Early adopters of the internet will remember just how odd our early engagements with the web were. Often, as an early adopter, you would type in a URL from a piece of paper you’d scrawled it upon, and this would take you to a website with a background that made overly heavy use of graphics.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 5, 2022

There have also been fears among some early adopters that they provide information too easily, and therefore inhibit the critical thinking skills of users. It’s also important to clearly document how the data submitted to the chatbot will be managed, especially if it is being used to discuss potentially sensitive topics.

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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. Change Barriers Removed to Keep Momentum: When barriers arise that block progress, leaders are quickly made aware and actions are taken to ensure momentum is maintained.

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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. One blames poor salesmanship while the other blames the product. The easiest way to sidestep this situation is to find people to play "hero" during the initial roll-out and focus on them.

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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 to succeed, you must go beyond grievance to identify an affirmative vision for what you would like to be different and then identify a single, fundamental change that will bring that vision about.”

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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. Geoffrey A. Geoffrey A.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

People who are early adopters of the execution need encouragement to take risks. Leaders keep the fire of enthusiasm alive by funneling the flames with regular reinforcement and review. It’s essential to reinforce the right actions when they are taken.

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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.

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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. They just don’t want to.

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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.

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LDRLB

APRIL 10, 2014

Here’s how to start: Identify the leading edge customers (customers that think creatively, ask for new things, or are your early adopters). Through rapid prototyping, the bank was able to bring a mobile banking application to market in just 60 days (versus the typical 12-18 months), and at approximately one-tenth of the cost.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

Also worth explaining to your colleagues is that the tech will put you in a highly competitive position: that of an early adopter. It will make the task of deriving insight easier—not harder—to do. It will allow your institution to master important business trends faster than your peers.

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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?” Millennials need more of this and less of that. What do I do with the redneck under my leadership who likes Mozart more than George Jones?

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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. It’s a different world. It changed. And it changed fast. But the good news is that, for the most part, we’re able to figure it out. If only businesses were able to adapt that easily.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. False Promises. Speed Traps.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2020

Just as there are always early adopters of new technologies, the ABM movement offers a tremendous opportunity to market leaders to increase their profits by looking for whales rather than guppies. If you are going to implement an ABM strategy, you will need to make sure your CRM can properly match leads to accounts. Conclusion.

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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. The corporate designation B-Corp allows a company to blend doing well and doing good in a for-profit structure.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2019

It revealed that millennials have been early adopters of smart technology, but they are also the most nervous age group when it comes to the privacy implications of having an array of smart devices in the home. Smart homes.

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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. No late fees, as a business model where the renter must replace each returned DVD benefits from tardy returns. ? See what happened there?

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