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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

In the same way, digital disruption is not about the technology as much as it is about how companies can make their way through the new competitive environment they find themselves in. Digital disruption is more about the people than it is the technology. The authors introduce the concept of digital maturity.

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Is Blogging Dead?

N2Growth Blog

This is simply flawed logic based upon a lack of understanding about what’s really influencing the decline. When a new industry surfaces, the early adopters (first-movers) set-up shop, validate proof of concept, carve out their niche, and build very strong, if not in some cases, category dominant brands. To build trust.

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Prerequisites for Change Adoption

Change Starts Here

One summer, the company put on a Technology Expo to show off all the futuristic technology they were developing. And yet even though I saw it in action twenty years ago, it still feels like I’m driving this futuristic technology. And what can it tell us about some of the prerequisites for change adoption?

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? 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. CMI’s proposal has already been picked up in the media and some key influencers.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

They engage trusted, local influencers to build credibility. They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. It starts with a trickle : To illustrate this challenge from my own experience, let's look at the example of drip irrigation , a technology that has been around for more than 50 years.

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Get Buy-In for Your Crazy Idea

Harvard Business Review

The same thing happened to executives at Xerox, who watched as their Palo Alto Research Center invented the graphic user interface (the central feature of the personal computer) but chose not to invest in the technology. Rodgers gathered data from over 500 hundred studies on why innovative ideas are adopted among people and organizations.

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The Obama Administration’s Roadmap for AI Policy

Harvard Business Review

The two reports – one by a subcommittee of the new National Science and Technology Council , and a second on AI and R&D — were prepared with remarkable speed, especially relative to the traditional pace of government. Of course, early adopters also risk exposure to the costs of learning and of less-tested technologies.