Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Marketing Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. For good reason, the $30-billion company has long been held up as a role model of how to manage innovation. our new vision" of growth and innovation. The new CEO is making sustainability, growth, and innovation a powerful trifecta.

Innovation 13

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages: Dramatic reductions in the time it takes to make critical product enhancements. Operations in a Connected World. The ability to test new ideas quickly and cheaply, run experiments, and back out if there are any problems. Insight Center.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Software Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. Innovation Strategy Technology'

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.”

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. That’s still true.

Technology 8

Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

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. population that on-demand services tend to be innovative and are still in their early stages of adoption — and therefore have plenty of growth potential.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. As mayor of Rio de Janeiro, I brought this belief to the government and introduced many technological innovations to modernize public management, in spite of skepticism and an incorrect perception about spending on technology.

Software 14

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 14

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. cable operators fight TV channels while Amazon and Google take on publishers. The Indian entrepreneur's distribution headaches don't just affect operations. Even in the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. So early preparation is needed. The lessons to date on driving digitization and robotics suggest operating on a dual track.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. But when it comes to innovation, the truth is often “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Software Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

That alone will add what I estimate to be a one-third productivity tax on the newly entered workforce — because workers have to hunt for information, applications inhibit collaboration, and legal requirements prevent business innovation. IT and business leaders need to work together and operate in parallel. The Bottom Line.

Technology 15

Technology Early Adopters Bottom-up Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In many cases, the culprit is a gap between launching a few analytics experiments and embedding these insights into the operating model of the larger organization. Merely layering powerful technology systems on top of existing operations is not enough. Embracing data and analytics is not a tactic; it’s a transformation.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Rethinking the time-honored processes upon which our daily operations depended would require overcoming the complacency that pervades many large academic medical centers. We enlisted experts in operational effectiveness and service excellence, and both leaders and front line staff were trained on the principles of lean manufacturing.

Health Care 8

Health Care Ishikawa Lean Manufacturing Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Both American Express and P&G are companies that have explored artificial intelligence over the years, and while the technology may have changed, the established yet innovative approaches that these firms take to incorporating new technologies and capabilities continues to evolve. Address applications that benefit you and the customer.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Early Adopters 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

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 Incubator Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Video is no longer the cornerstone of revenue for cable operators. If a cable operator, for example, has a 10% loss in video subscribers, topline revenues are reduced by 6%, but profits only shrink by 4%. Consumption of OTT original programming skews heavily male and matches the profile of the typical early adopter of technology.

Video 8

Video Telecommunications Early Adopters Advertising 8

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. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 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).

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 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?

ADKAR 60

ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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. Related Video. Whiteboard Session: How Does Blockchain Work? The power of a distributed ledger.

Marketing 11

Marketing Advertising Technology Content 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Learnings from these early adopters can jump-start the efforts of others. When Virginia Mason applied appropriateness and safety standards to patients referred for lumbar fusion, it found that 58% would not qualify for this major operation. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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. 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.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Public Relations Video Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Innovation and change. They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology. However, even these commodity offerings can find ways to innovate and survive. So much so that it is being likened to a foundational technology , much as the internet was in the early 1990s. As with all such innovations, a global standards war is under way.

Insurance 11

Insurance Industry Policies Market Penetration 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. 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. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Strategy Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Already, the scale of data collected by early adopters of this technology is staggering. Operations. The difference between how firms operate their businesses today and how these efforts will change with location analytics is profound. Location analytics will also exacerbate the growing digital divide within companies.

Retail 9

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. It was supposed to provoke deeper thinking about capitalism and its future, but many early adopters understood the concept as a balancing act, adopting a trade-off mentality.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Early adopters could benefit considerably. The result is a maze of point systems and redemption options, with cumbersome processes for exchanging points among program partners.

Loyalty 12

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The idea was presented to BIDMC’s senior-management operating council and then to the Board’s IT oversight committee. 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

JUNE 14, 2012

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. And I'm not sure it ever could have been reversed.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Business Model Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. This expansion shows how social networking systems have begun to cross over from the consumer world to corporations to drive innovation. Decision making Operations'

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

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. An increasing amount of your purchases are conducted on eBay or Amazon. You back up your laptop to the cloud.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8