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?” Leading in the key of personality can orchestrate a harmonious, productive work environment. Millennials need more of this and less of that.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2019

A recent report from Accenture explored the rise of voice-activated technologies such as Amazon’s Alexa, and how they promise to transform the home environment.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. We hope you’ll enjoy the new approach – we’d love your feedback!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Alarmingly, it dips as low as 5; that rate is not sustainable, because employees will voluntarily leave because of the poor cultural environment. Founders should set expectations with their early employees that these changes are a natural part of the firm’s success. However, the sales function’s happiness is markedly lower.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

People are commonly referred to as ‘buyers,’ ‘shoppers,’ ‘payers,’ ‘non-responders,’ ‘early adopters,’ and ‘eyeballs.’ Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. ’ What is too often lost is the nuance – human.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We considered four key dimensions: Behavior, Attitudes, Environment, and Experience. Behavior : How do users actually respond to frictions in their digital experiences and environment? Attitudes : How do users feel about the digital trust environment? The beauty of digital environments is that such behavior data is abundant.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

For example: As an early adopter of advanced analytics, the securities industry is now defined by automated, algorithm-centric trading and artificial intelligence-based advisors that outperform professional money managers. Find out how to raise your organization’s “Analytics IQ” here.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As workforces hollow out, the remaining employees will be highly specialized and experienced business/technology hybrids—a new breed of professional who can work in highly distributed environments and shift from managing people to managing experiences and technology. So early preparation is needed. Lessons from automakers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Wherever companies were talking about e-commerce, dynamic online environments, or analytics, Adobe wanted to be there — not just as a sponsor, but as a provider of insights. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

What leaders tend to miss here is that the scientific progress we’ve made in AI does not automatically render the technology ready for any environment. NLP algorithms perform best in constrained environments, such as question and answer systems, where a user can ask a computer questions from a finite list of possible queries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

From conversations with over 100 early adopters, we've found some elements that help IT teams and business leaders come to terms with the consumerization of IT. Technology must work in a wide range of environments. So what's a business supposed to do? An Enterprise-Class Checklist for Consumerization of IT.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Early adopters are posting faster growth in operating profits , which enables them to continue innovating and solidifying their advantages. In industries where analytics adoption has been slow, there is still an opportunity for first movers to gain a significant edge over competitors.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

As they search for a new formula to stay relevant in a fast-moving environment, up and coming, more agile players are emerging with solutions to the unmet needs of today’s retail consumers. Ultimately, Lake created such an environment, allowing these stylists to thrive. San Francisco-based Stitch Fix is such a player.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2011

Sharing value is perhaps a straightforward proposition when it comes to not dumping pollutants into the environment or skimping on product quality in ways that harm your customers' health. It could also apply to companies who launch new products to long queues (ahem, Apple) rather than pricing high to early adopters.

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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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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. This kind of pro-environment lobbying is an advanced sustainability strategy that only real leaders can pull off.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Some of us are “innovators” or “early adopters” whilst others are “laggards” The vast majority of us sit in the middle of the population as “The early or late majority” Again this is a people led model of change. Maybe it is all 3: process, people and environment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Although attracting early adopters is essential for early success and encouraging virality, growth customers—the people who are likely to buy the next generation of products—are crucial for building a sustainable business. Who is my growth customer?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

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. Engineers scale up the technology to ensure that it can work in a larger environment. This isn’t market research, but hands-on problem solving.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Businesses and other entities in California who took action early on emissions reduction are already seeing the economic benefits of complying with AB 32. Together, these early adopters reduced their emissions of global warming pollution by the equivalent of nearly 270 million pounds of carbon dioxide per year while saving approximately $3.60

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By buying Whole Foods, Amazon gets virtually limitless possibilities to test products and services, test price points and assortment interactions, redefine the price perception for organic and healthier foods, merge offline and online shopping experiences, and perhaps test home delivery or store pickup with ideal early adopters.

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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. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

He became an early adopter of social computing tools to communicate with employees, and in the process became a role model for adoption among his senior executive team, as well as the employee population. Creating a social knowledge-sharing environment is not the responsibility of one department.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. For those not familiar with it, the triple bottom line is a sustainability framework that examines a company’s social, environment, and economic impact. So why recall it now?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Institutional environment. With this category, we assessed the legal environment (including IP and investor protections) as well as how much the government used digital technology. Broader, more systemic changes are needed to boost digital evolution in this type of environment. This can act as a drag on any initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

We did an open-source analysis of IoT user behavior, looking at 1,000 IoT technology platforms and services and more than 279,000 early adopter interactions with IoT devices. My experience of coming home is enhanced, since everything is acting according to my preferences.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

That’s something any forward-thinking provider must aim for in today’s data-driven health care environment. 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.

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