Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

A few are entrepreneurial start-ups desperate for closer ties with their early adopter clientele. Without exception, these companies want to be seen as innovative and customer-centric in equal measure. Are they there primarily to learn more about the host's innovation roadmap and strategic aspirations?

Software 14

Software Critical Success Factor Early Adopters B2B 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

We tend to overestimate the power of influence. The best-known example of the threshold model at work is the diffusion of innovations model developed by Everett Rogers , in which a small group of innovators gets hold of an idea and indoctrinates a somewhat more reluctant group of early adopters to form local majorities.

Leadership 15

Leadership Early Adopters Video Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But the larger emergent conference theme was that sports quants and analysts—as well as coaches and general managers—were becoming more creative, innovative and aggressive in identifying not only what player combinations and match-ups were more effective but what were the “special ingredients” and “secret sauces” that went into that success.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It asks how quickly do we take to innovations – another type of change. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? Or start earlier? What had I missed?

ADKAR 60

ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Certain project leaders at IBM started an initiative to build a community of web fans, i.e. early adopters of the web, that would subsequently transform the company. Set up for stress: Proactively think about how emerging autonomous projects can influence your strategy and its execution.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The report notes: “where regulatory responses to the addition of AI threaten to increase the cost of compliance, or slow the development or adoption of beneficial innovations, policymakers should consider how those responses could be adjusted…” But regulation can help too, as the administration recognizes.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. 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. How could this be?, That is leadership.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

How do you multiply your influence? 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. It’s the same thing you can use, this ripples of influence thing, to become a thought leader. This is second chapter.

Open-book 74

Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

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. What do they actually do that influences and inspires? How do their leadership examples impact and influence our own?

Examples 12

Examples Charisma Self-aware Mission Statement 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. Diffusion theory holds, however, that this is not a random process: Key influencers make it tip. Most people would join somewhere in the middle, at the tipping point. Tweak the situation. Teach and coach well.

Early Adopters 18

Early Adopters Incentives Follow-up Comparison 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Was the launch just as innovative as the product? Here were some aspects of the unveiling that struck me as innovative, and how they worked out. But of the 60,000 who petitioned to attend, very few wound up among the 500 media and influencer attendees. Did it accomplish its goals?

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Public Relations Video Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

This idea infused platforms like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI), influencing corporate accounting, stakeholder engagement and, increasingly, strategy. To truly shift the needle, however, we need a new wave of TBL innovation and deployment.

TBL 10

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Get influencers onboard. In the early stages of the launch, focus on getting “a network of champions” fully invested in the new technology, so they can “coach others on how to use the tools to their benefit,” says Bonnet. . “Getting those folks on board early is critical.”

Technology 8

Technology CRM Training System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The raw data were just numbers, although they helped reveal interesting information — that none of my life activities (commuting, tea drinking, work) influence my blood pressure. To launch I2B2, the leaders of that effort assembled a coalition of senior IT people, throughout Harvard’s hospitals, who became early adopters.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Early Adopters Education Technology 8