Change Starts Here

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

About twenty years ago, I was an engineering co-op student at Delco Electronics (now Delphi), an automotive electronics company that at the time was a subsidiary of General Motors. 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!

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Glassdoor has been consistently tracking the ChatGPT adoption rates ever since the AI came out and their numbers indicate that the use of the AI tool has gone up from 27 percent among the early adopters to 62 percent of professionals as of November.

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Tools Content Early Adopters Software 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The PCs and databases introduced during the reengineering of the 90s have grown up: the rules-based codes written by engineers are giving way to learning algorithms driven by the machines themselves. Managers noted historical trends and revised processes, and engineers developed code that was then baked into computing systems.

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Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

In the meantime, we had successfully engineered sensor technology that allowed our residential ceiling fans to respond to the indoor environment, including changes in temperature and humidity, as well as occupants’ motion. We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

A team typically consists of three to seven people who have strong software engineering, product management, testing, and marketing skills. Google runs hundreds of millions of tests each day on updates to its online products (the search engine, Gmail, YouTube, and others). But isn’t there a risk of quality problems?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Large companies serve mainstream customers, while innovative entrepreneurs first serve early adopters. There, an open community of industrial designers, scientists, engineers, students, and amateur tinkerers working alongside FirstBuild employees to design, build, and sell innovative home appliances. ” You can’t.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

With Novec Fluids, the team is not only working with key customers and early adopters, but it's also pushing the market toward greener options by advocating for tougher government standards and regulations. Bottom line: sustainability is deeply integrated in 3M's innovation pipeline, which is the engine of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

The API is the core engine driving this strategy. Early adopters will be able to significantly expand their revenues by discovering and joining forces with blockbuster complementors. In its early days, its user interface was not good enough for regular users. We expect these trends to become much more widespread.

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Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

There’s no use going to engineers with detailed product specifications before you really know what the customer wants. 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. That’s great advice and not just for startups.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

A few years back, my three-year-old son Max had an unyielding passion for Thomas the Tank Engine trains. For instance, you might collect feedback from early adopters who’ve already transitioned to the entitlement period. Paul Garbett for HBR. Piece by piece, he accumulated a rather impressive collection.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The early adopters, often with some annoyance, gave way to later adopters. Our culture is not just an engine of innovation. With this contribution, the bands started a new round of experimentation in matters of sound, style, and sensibility. Style grew more pronounced, sensibility better defined.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. 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.

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Process Automotive Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. million annually.

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

And to achieve our aim of “VIP care for every patient, every time,” we not only had to re-engineer our processes; we had to fundamentally change our culture. Healthcare institutions began to experiment with lean in the early 2000s, and some emergency departments were among the early adopters.

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Health Care Ishikawa Lean Manufacturing Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

A post-experiment survey revealed that consumer trust with the random product recommender was no lower than with a sophisticated and personalized recommendation engine. These early adopters work out the kinks and make the technology understandable to the general public.

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Participative Technology Learning-by-Doing Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Studying 168 early adopters, we’ve seen speed improvements of two times or more for most business processes — and some organizations are reporting speed improvements of 10 times or more. Engineers, for example, have saved up to 40 hours of reporting task time each month. Uncovering Buried Insights.

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Efficiency Company Root Cause Analysis Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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Insurance Industry Policies Market Penetration 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

Even in these early days, practices of successful early adopters offer several useful lessons: Find and own valuable data no one else has. For computing, he relied on Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine. In the face of such technical progress, paralysis is rarely a good strategy.

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Company Training Technology Wireless 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

To this end, if we reverse engineer today’s sustainability agenda, it is clear that a powerful element of its genetic code has been the Triple Bottom Line (variously rendered as TBL or 3PL). While there have been successes, our climate, water resources, oceans, forests, soils and biodiversity are all increasingly threatened.

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TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The Science Team intentionally refrains from using the words “data” or “analytics,” as the team’s capabilities stretch far beyond these two disciplines: behavioral economists, psychologists, engineers, and change management experts work hand-in-hand with data scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians.

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Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The Science Team intentionally refrains from using the words “data” or “analytics,” as the team’s capabilities stretch far beyond these two disciplines: behavioral economists, psychologists, engineers, and change management experts work hand-in-hand with data scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians.

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Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

To stay ahead, these countries need to keep their innovation engines in top gear and generate new demand, failing which they risk stalling out. Smaller countries with strong institutions can create high value as early adopters and create a demonstration effect for the world by assembling the right ecosystem.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

Those early adopters of technology – let’s call them entrepreneurs, or maybe even founders – helped drive overall economic vitality. The authors hypothesize that these early adopters used their newly acquired knowledge to build technologically based businesses that drove regional prosperity.

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Entrepreneur Early Adopters Education Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Customers, instead of engineers or managers, make decisions on product designs in an ongoing dialogue. But not at Valve Software , creators of video games ( Half-Life , Counter-Strike, Portal), a game engine, and online gaming platform. What you work on is decided by bosses in almost all companies.

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