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. These tools make a PM’s work life much easier. It really is an innovative UX. Neither the phone functionality nor the iPod is a reason why I recommend iPhones for PMs.

Early Adopters 154

Early Adopters Productivity Products Marketing 154

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

checklist of questions is a powerful tool for looking at your existing product/service lines and coming up with new variations. This will appeal to both early adopters (who can spread the word) and customers not being served by current DVD rental businesses. The S.C.A.M.P.E.R. See what happened there?

Incubator 238

Incubator Early Adopters Business Model Quality 238

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. Evaluating leadership capital has always been a critical component of due diligence for deal teams.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

Survey 9

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. As always with technology adoption, there is an S-curve, already being scribbled by early adopters; when the inflection point is reached, expect sudden acceleration.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Sign up friends on facebook to check in on your behaviors (or use a company network tool). Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. Mobilize the crowd. In this video , would you be the second, the middle or the last person to join the dance?

Early Adopters 16

Early Adopters Incentives Follow-up Comparison 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

As a result, it's extremely difficult to sell innovation to this consumer. A new product and approach and innovation could dramatically improve the life and income of a billion people, but those people have been conditioned to ignore the very tools that are a reflex of marketers that might sell it to them.

Marketing 14

Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 14

ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

They should avoid one-word overused “no duh” adjectives like “innovation” or “integrity.” To add to the excitement of our initial roll-out, we wanted to keep the momentum going in the early adoption phase by giving employees the optional opportunity to participate in a t-shirt design contest.

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Process Groupthink Company Document 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’d like to discuss three BIDMC big-data applications that required both technical expertise and leadership — and that have helped our patients, including my family and me. 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