Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

For example, new TV channels have to depend on tens of thousands of small cable operators, who have set up networks in residential areas. It's relatively open, with a huge under-served population, and the media industry is large, with TV sets in 138 million households and total newspaper circulation exceeding 300 million.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

“Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. The NTRS data also shows on-demand services have already moved beyond early adopters and are gaining traction among mainstream consumers who require that platforms be user-friendly and safe.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

trillion, it’s clear why the battle to recruit from this scarce group has become the industry’s defining challenge. At the moment, AI is more of an open frontier than an industry-friendly space. There is a vast competitive advantage that comes from owning these solutions for your industry. trillion and $5.8

How To 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

The first is around industries that we think will go through a big change in “cognitive” [natural language] computing, such as financial services and healthcare. The second is where we see similar patterns across industries, such as how people discover and engage with organizations and how organizations make different kinds of decisions.

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 12

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. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5 Digital capabilities come before AI.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

How it will impact business, industry, and society. P&G’s staff of analysts and data scientists is somewhat smaller (several hundred or so), but well over the average for firms in its industry. Both are addressing cognitive applications that benefit customers and bring operational business value to their own organizations.

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Supply Chain Technology System Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Yet, more than 50 years after Peter Drucker devised the term knowledge worker, it is quite disappointing to peer inside the operations of any large organization and see how little of their time knowledge workers actually spend on higher-order thinking tasks. The Future of Operations. No underlying systems programming logic is touched.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Large companies serve mainstream customers, while innovative entrepreneurs first serve early adopters. As a free-standing enterprise operating under its own brand, FirstBuild is decidedly not another attempt to transform a traditional company’s corporate culture. ” You can’t. Separation is the key.

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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.

Process 8

Process Automotive Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

An industrial paint application product/service that reduces toxic solvent use by 70% and is saving customers, mostly auto repair shops, $2 billion from simpler paint operations and reduced waste. It's also a sizable business for 3M. But there are signs of a feistier attitude brewing.

Innovation 11

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Even companies that make industrial products like cars, medical devices, and construction equipment are increasingly competing with digitally sophisticated firms like Tesla and Nest that regularly update their connected physical products online. Operations in a Connected World. But when a product is delivered online (e.g.,

Innovation 9

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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.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

However, there are many reasons to invest the time now to understand the technology and begin exploring specific marketing applications for your industry. Like digital platforms, social media, martech, fintech, and numerous other innovations, the spoils of blockchain may go to early adopters who commit to ruthless innovation.

Marketing 9

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

Venture Capitalist 8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Or employers may delegate the purchasing of health care to their employees through high deductible plans, health saving accounts, defined contributions, or health care exchanges, leaving them where they have no leverage with the health care industry. Learnings from these early adopters can jump-start the efforts of others.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The smartphone market is dominated by essentially two offerings, Apple phones with the iOS operating system and Samsung/HTC/other phones running on Android OS. Early adopters and innovators will no doubt rush to buy it, and they’ll show it off to their friends. Apple Public relations Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

In these early days of the Internet of Things (IoT), much of the focus has been on industrial applications, such as improving operations with autonomous machines, or standalone consumer products, like a Fitbit. As with the Industrial IoT, the human IoT promises to be transformative.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Technology Early Adopters Emotional Intelligence 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. It’s still early days for machine-reengineering, so we expect our research to uncover many more new types of machine sidekicks.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Company Root Cause Analysis Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk. Many industries have experienced disruption, due to technologies that successfully reduced inefficiencies and frictions, often disintermediating established players in the process.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

If an industrial product like a car fails the manufacturer pulls it back, tests it and, if necessary, re-equips it. Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. It is hard to think of a single case. Changing the System.

TBL 9

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness. 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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

regional newspaper industry. Dealing with disruptive innovation is difficult at any time, in any industry. And even if they'd succeeded, their news operations would be endangered anyway. And these digital natives have seen no reason to attach expensive news-gathering operations to their efforts.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Business Model Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. There is an entire industry that is simply out of the view of the public. You back up your laptop to the cloud.

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