Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. No startup finds traction without at least one Evangelist, the person who frames your purpose and story – whether that’s pitching for funding, attracting talent or gathering a critical mass of early adopters and followers.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

He suggests six further measures that would help, including a cash grant to support early adopters of the lifelong loan entitlement and reforming the Apprenticeship Levy scheme. We’ve taken a deep dive into how to set career goals that will stick – see whether these tips can help you reach your targets.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. So how to reduce these risks and accelerate early adoption?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Some of their tactics included addressing employee feedback head-on, creating a program of formal career paths, increasing levels of recognition, and over-communicating expectations and goals. Founders should set expectations with their early employees that these changes are a natural part of the firm’s success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

Their goal was to erect a massive, multi-structure barn for a neighbor. The Kickstarter ecosystem brings together makers, backers, and early adopters as well as community building experts, videographers, and storytellers. At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio.

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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. It turns out, scaling high-touch is not the goal. IndieGoGo's Ringelmann changed my mind.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But a failure of this test wouldn''t necessarily mean that Dropbox wouldn''t work — it could mean that the quality threshold was higher than expected, or that Digg users weren''t ideal early adopters, or that some other news event had distracted users from watching or sharing the video. Learning from MVPs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But a failure of this test wouldn’t necessarily mean that Dropbox wouldn’t work — it could mean that the quality threshold was higher than expected, or that Digg users weren’t ideal early adopters, or that some other news event had distracted users from watching or sharing the video. Learning from MVPs.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In our study of more than 30 pilots in early-adopter companies, we found five common business processes improved by machine-reengineering. If the early adopters are any indication, machine-engineering is a leap forward in the evolution of business processes. It will make processes far more agile, efficient and productive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Instead, some will make the shift to think in products that tackle business goals. A core set of very good features hook early adopters, and teams quickly learn what users value. A product mindset helps change this. No longer will all developers be assigned to project work.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Scheduled before the massive annual CES gathering, it's a powwow for bloggers and other social media enthusiasts, early adopters who are quick to jump on board the next great thing. I recently got back from the New Media Expo in Las Vegas.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Here’s how to cultivate a more digitally nimble workplace: Goal-centric thinking. It’s really easy to get caught up in the pressure to adopt the latest cool platform or tool. But most people only embrace technologies that actually help them achieve concrete and valued goals. Collaboration skills.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

We developed a strategy to accomplish three goals across this social network: customer development, brand awareness, and traditional marketing and customer acquisition. We approached brand awareness, a traditional marketing goal, in a new way through social networks.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Managers and leaders need to be early adopters. Give managers access to detailed, real-time, easily actionable reports on recognition activity, correlated to key business goals. Get everyone on board. Active support from senior executives communicates to staff that the program is worth their time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

McKinsey recently surveyed more than 500 executives representing companies across the spectrum of industries, regions, and sizes, and 86% reported that their organizations were only somewhat effective at meeting the goals they set out for their data and analytics initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Early adopters of microfinance wanted to prove that it was a commercially viable product, deserving space in an investor’s portfolio alongside real estate and the stock market. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The real goal, the transformation goal, should be the larger service. This is where you take early adopters who want to make a change. But that goal wasn’t there up front, because when we started , people were telling us, you can’t hire quality people. So that is not a methodology to build buildings.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The ultimate goal is to build software that can direct financial analysts in real-time toward relevant information within their respective industries. While we can’t yet predict how it will re-shape the market, the prevalence with which AI is already embedded into our core technologies favors early adoption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

Benjamin Franklin was an early adopter, though his self-tracking experiments grabbed fewer headlines than his apocryphal kite-flying ones. Franklin quantified his progress toward achieving 13 personal goals, assigning himself a "little black spot" on days he failed to make progress on a particular goal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Cap and trade is projected to achieve nearly 20% of that goal by limiting emissions from the industrial, utility, and transportation fuels sectors — which account for roughly 85% of the state's greenhouse gas pollution. We shouldn't read too much into it. million annually.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The new locations could also help with customer acquisition and retention, which are top goals for Sprint. RadioShack was founded almost a century ago as a one-store and catalog specialty retailer of the latest electronics and parts with expert service for a niche segment of hobbyists, tech nerds, and early adopters.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Neither organization has the goal of eliminating large numbers of jobs with cognitive technology. We’ve both followed these companies for a long time—dating back to their early work with expert systems. Augmentation, not automation.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Create short term goals. 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. Build a team dedicated to change.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In general, early adopters of RPA find that automation radically transforms operations, delivering much lower costs while improving service quality, increasing compliance (because everything the software does is logged), and decreasing delivery times. .”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals. A well-known early adopter of the Net Promoter system began linking NPS improvement to executive compensation before it had developed adequate disciplines and processes for understanding its scores. A clear link to financial and strategic outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The ultimate goal ought to be “intelligent friction”: balancing a seamless experience with proper protections. Online users in these countries are, more typically, early adopters, often younger and enthusiastic about new technologies. Left unmanaged, even these “positive” frictions (e.g.

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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. Sounds pretty good to me. So focus on leadership by all means, but don’t forget the importance of joinership.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

DAVID: And the book in that aim is the latest culmination of that goal, Ready to Be a Thought Leader: How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success. So those people from a entrepreneurship standpoint, it’s not that they want to see you leading that charge, it’s that they also want that fifty percent goal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Goal theory has taught us that for goals to be effective, they need to be concrete and measurable. Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. Research on multi-tasking reveals that we're not good at it. Focus on one behavior to change at a time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Did it accomplish its goals? Early adopters and innovators will no doubt rush to buy it, and they’ll show it off to their friends. This will depend on how much hype Amazon can continue to generate, and what it does next to motivate early adopters to check out this new eye candy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Sustainable Development Goals forecast to generate market opportunities of over $12 trillion a year by 2030 (and that’s considered a conservative estimate). But success or failure on sustainability goals cannot be measured only in terms of profit and loss. It is time to either step up — or to get out of the way.

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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. Senior executives studied the early adopters and tracked adoption rates in monthly meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

First, what strategic goal would virtual care help achieve today? Traditional provider organizations need to find ways to offer these services not just at the margins of the day, and not just by small pockets of early adopters. To survive this evolution, provider organizations need to ask three key questions.

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Health Care Retail Strategy Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The company's initial foray, the Fiat 500 , sold only about 26,000 units in its first year, far short of Marcchione's 50,000 unit goal. Many people don't fit Fiat's mold, and even individuals well-targeted by demographic criteria (which is how media is bought) might not be early adopters of a new brand.

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