Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. The post Start a Business at Any Age first appeared on Skip Prichard | Leadership Insights. Hold tight to your mission, values, and goals, but do not cling to your original assumptions about marketing and sales.

Entrepreneur 139

Entrepreneur Education Learning-by-Doing Marketing 139

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?

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Incubator Early Adopters Business Model Quality 238

Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 4, 2012

The breadth and variety of BPM tools has never been greater, yet the increasing availability of tools has not increased the success of BPM projects. You can target early adopters. The biggest barrier to BPM success is so often human related. Complexity is much more manageable. You're not spreading resources too thinly.

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BPM Technology Early Adopters Project 82

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. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing.

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Early Adopters Productivity Products Marketing 154

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. In this case, it’s not.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

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.

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Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

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. So early preparation is needed. Blueprint the broader impact on roles, skills, controls, leadership, workforce and talent management, and social contracts.

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Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 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. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything. Take a portfolio approach to accelerate your AI journey.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Those insights came from the research Adobe had done to develop the platform, as well as the data the platform was already generating from early adopters. They used content marketing for thought leadership, in the true meaning of the term. Retailers were all ears.

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Content Marketing B2C Early Adopters 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. Processes and tools for understanding root causes. Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

AI is a transformative series of tools that can accelerate productivity, drive insight, and open up unexplored revenue streams. It’s poised to revolutionize the way we do business and everyone in a leadership role should be thinking about it. Artificial intelligence (AI) is unlikely to be one of them.

How To 8

How To Technology Learning-by-Doing Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Based on this insight, Gimmy proposed a radical rethinking and new corporate venturing tool to boost corporate innovation: the “venture client” model. Creating the Venture Client Model.

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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?

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Early Adopters Incentives Follow-up Comparison 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

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. All the tools of the Western mass market are useless here. So you see the paradox.

Marketing 15

Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 15

ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

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. This is a great tool to get some less desirable applicants to self-select out of your hiring process.

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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.

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Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

On an internal basis, the rush to deploy social business tools matches the hype of the past decade in installing collaboration tools and assuming one's employees would easily adapt if only the right tool was deployed. The recurring problem — culture always trumps technology in adoption of new tools.

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B2C Early Adopters B2B How To 15