Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

Thus, both types take preparation and skillful execution if they are going to produce positive results. Clarity of Success Metrics: The parameters for how success will be measured are clearly communicated and understood at the beginning of a project, and employees understand how they will be measured. Who are the willing?

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Management Early Adopters Metrics ROI 150

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. Of course, you’d still want plenty of specialists on the team to be able to execute on the new idea.”. Creating impact.

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Innovation Early Adopters Technology Constraint 97

Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2020

There are six features of CRM platforms that increase the odds of successful ABM campaigns. Workflow Automation: automatically performs repetitive tasks that are crucial to the success of your marketing strategy. Analytics: studies the data gathered to assist in the execution of the marketing strategy. Conclusion.

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CRM Marketing Marketing Strategy Software 56

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

You provide a roadmap for success. People do not start selling early enough. These are the key to any successful startup, more so than the ability to raise investment money. Designing and executing systems to meet specific problems is key. You can fail from success just as easily as through deficiency.

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Entrepreneur Education Learning-by-Doing Marketing 141

Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 4, 2012

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. You can target early adopters. You have success stories to help spread things throughout the organisation.

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BPM Technology Early Adopters Project 82

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Through many years of business experience, I learned some great lessons on what it takes to produce a successful partnership. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Always remember that people talk and that first impressions are critical to making a deal successful. Know your customer.

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Succession Early Adopters Hammer Price 284

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. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. Thank you for your questions.

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Early Adopters Productivity Products Marketing 154

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 9

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

People are commonly referred to as ‘buyers,’ ‘shoppers,’ ‘payers,’ ‘non-responders,’ ‘early adopters,’ and ‘eyeballs.’ In the days following the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill, how many times did we hear executives tell the public not to worry?

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Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. The gap between strategy and the execution of that strategy is often referred to as “ strategic dissonance.” The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

While executives at this company thought they were extremely transparent, employees did not agree. As Geoffrey Moore pointed out in his groundbreaking book, Crossing the Chasm , companies need to market to one segment of customers at a time, starting with the early adopters before leveraging that segment to launch into the next.

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Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

Less obviously — but perhaps more importantly — it leverages community intelligence to produce the best barn design possible, and also creates and reinforces collaborative connections crucial for success in farming communities. And if you get those elements right, your initiative will have a better chance of being successful.

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Innovation Early Adopters Brainstorming Participative 8

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.”

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Early Adopters Film Reference Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Executives must think carefully about how to best match people and machines, bearing in mind that many of the decisions they make today will have a long-tail effect on workforce composition, productivity, and profits for years to come. So early preparation is needed. Start early to shift the leadership mindset.

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Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The choice of a target domain is typically based on the gut feelings of executives. For example, at Caesars Entertainment — an early and continuing user of analytics in its business — the initial focus was on analytics for customer loyalty and service. But how about with big data? Well, no, as it turns out.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty Early Adopters Information Technology 10

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. For example, there was a long tradition of IBM executives dressing formally in a suit and tie. Yet that wasn’t a value, it was an early manifestation of a value. For Gandhi it was salt. Survive Victory.

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Resistance Participative Early Adopters Learning-by-Doing 280

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

In response, executives made a concerted effort to step back and think about customers’ most important graphics-related problems. 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. Retailers were all ears.

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Content Marketing B2C Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

I asked several tech startup founders, community managers, and users for any lessons learned on how startups can successfully transition their early adopters, who are used to feeling like VIPs, to technology that reduces hand-holding. How can a low-tech, high-touch startup scale to a high-tech one without losing users?

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FAQ Early Adopters COO How To 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Aspiring junior executives dream of climbing the ladder to gain more authority. Senior executives, on the other hand, are often frustrated by how little power they actually have. In 2005, John Antioco was the eminently successful CEO of Blockbuster, the 800-pound gorilla of the video rental industry.

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Leadership Early Adopters Video Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

But how do you create, maintain and support a successful real-time peer review program to make sure it delivers on its potential? Managers and leaders need to be early adopters. Active support from senior executives communicates to staff that the program is worth their time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

But we believe that successful firms can treat cognitive technologies as an opportunity to evolve or grow from previous work. Two good examples of combining well-established practices with cognitive technology to achieve business success are American Express and Procter & Gamble. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Supply Chain Technology System Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Today, Apple is riding high, making this the perfect time for it — and every successful company — to reflect on Nokia's fall and ensure that they don't suffer the same fate. Over time and with success, Nokia too lost some of its ability to stay in touch with, and adapt early to, market trends. The signs are there.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

A few are entrepreneurial start-ups desperate for closer ties with their early adopter clientele. Charismatic presenters are nice and crisply articulated messages are wonderful, but one critical success factor stands out above all others: The best customer events put the best customers on stage.

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Software Critical Success Factor Early Adopters B2B 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

A talented videogame-designing friend had a ready quip whenever start-up executives asked him if he was a “team player.” “Yes,” have become early adopters and innovators in multidimensional measurements for individuals and teams alike. Yes,” he always responded, “team captain.” He usually got hired.

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Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

In fact, in talking to executives at Experian, it seemed clear to me that the techniques that Blank advocates, such as focusing on customer development before produce development, creating a minimum viable product and iterating and pivoting to a new business model, can actually be done more effectively in an established business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. Netflix’s success can be attributed to two strategic moves — a three-stage expansion process into new markets and the ways it worked with those markets — which other companies looking to expand globally can use too.

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First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. Netflix’s success can be attributed to two strategic moves — a three-stage expansion process into new markets and the ways it worked with those markets — which other companies looking to expand globally can use too.

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First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. Pilot customers are enthusiastic, but broader adoption is slow even with customer support and training. Next, determine how mental models are getting in the way of your success.

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Productivity Products Software Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

TIAA-CREF, the big financial services company, includes customer loyalty score improvement in senior executive compensation. Pep Boys, a US auto parts store chain, reports in its proxy statement that customer metrics are now an important part of its executive compensation system. Meeting these preconditions won't guarantee success.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. This third phase has led to large private equity organizations governing their assets in a unique way.

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Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

3M's sustainability leadership has come mainly from its eco-efficiency success, but these practices are increasingly the norm in business. Although 3M may have the opposite problem — getting too little brand and marketing value out of its efforts — it is usually smarter to execute first, and then tell your story.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

First, there''s a digital disconnect in the executive ranks, a leadership vacuum created by a mismatch between expertise and authority. You can see a strong precedent for this in the open source software movement, which didn''t go mainstream until its early adopters progressed through the ranks. The Digital Disconnect.

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CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Right now, the biggest companies in the world are scooping up these experts to populate their teams because they understand that the key to building a robust, successful AI practice is to find and retain the right talent. When you consider that the annual market value predictions for AI techniques range between $3.5 trillion and $5.8

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How To Technology Learning-by-Doing Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

When entrepreneurs, innovators, and executives describe the kind of leaders they want to be and/or hire, an unhappy truth invariably emerges: The attributes they so admire often aren’t the behaviors they display. To the contrary, executives always — always! Growing effective leaders is challenging work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Executives can change strategy, products and processes until they're blue in the face, but real change doesn't take hold until people actually change what they do. Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. I spent the summer reviewing research on this topic.

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Early Adopters Incentives Follow-up Comparison 16

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. Founder and chief executive Craig Ganssle was an early user of Google Glass. In the face of such technical progress, paralysis is rarely a good strategy.

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