Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Common sense calls for enlisting the early adopters first to gain momentum while keeping the more difficult converts at bay. However difficult it may be to deal with their resistance up front, involving them early may be less painful than trying to have them jump into the project after much work has been done without their input.

Early Adopters 74

Early Adopters Resistance Guidelines Delegation 74

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Technologies such as Yammer and Work.com have been changing how we collaborate and manage performance respectively. Establish emotional buy-in – The second thing is to then trial things on a small project. There are five ways you can do this: Identify community leaders that have authenticity and trust to champion and lead the project.

Early Adopters 91

Early Adopters ROI Media Tools 91

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. We call them trial users, because they’re much more than early adopters; they’re the people that not only work with the kind of experimental versions of the product. In this case, it’s not.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Thoughtful management on both the demand side and the supply side can smooth the transition. Leveraging early adopters to accelerate platform adoption. Makerbot structured and expanded this group through a series of projects, conferences, and events that built momentum for the product (phase 1).

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Early Adopters 8

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Have you been forcing all projects to fit a single methodology because it’s what you know? The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management.

ADKAR 60

ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). This scenario is characterized by many divergent projects, fragmented activities that have little in common with the initial strategic plan, and projects that do not fit together.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

But Loveman’s intuition about the value of loyalty and service was enough to propel years of analytics projects in those areas. Loveman insists on an ROI from each analytics project at Caesars. Intuition plays an important role at the early stages of analytics strategy, however. Well, no, as it turns out.

Customer Loyalty 13

Customer Loyalty Loyalty Early Adopters Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. Observing early adopters, we’ve found that automated process change comes in three main flavors: self-adapting, self-repairing, or a combination of the two.

Process 9

Process Automotive Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

In fact, managers might even be a bit worse. In an experiment by Jennifer Mueller, managers were more likely to reject the very same ideas that got customers excited. Everett Rodgers, a sociology professor at Ohio State University published the now famous Diffusion of Innovation in 1962 and coined the term “early adopter.”

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Film Reference Brainstorming 8

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. This was unacceptable.

Software 14

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Health Care Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

We can provide the entrepreneurs with access to early adopter customers in the 170 countries in which we operate. They brought in 2000 people, a dozen projects, a couple of Big Data and content analytics tools, and a consulting unit (outside of IBM Global Services ).

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

A team typically consists of three to seven people who have strong software engineering, product management, testing, and marketing skills. They require uncommon teamwork between marketing-oriented product managers and software developers with a technical orientation. But isn’t there a risk of quality problems?

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Software Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

It is the passionate early adopters who help you to gain traction, see what works and what else may be needed to make the product successful. Product managers work on issues such as pricing, legal compliance and positioning. Every aspect of the pilot project and the business model is refined and strengthened.

Company 8

Company Team Due Diligence Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today. Previously a straggling and struggling conglomerate, it bravely focused 100% on mobile communications, was an early adopter and driver of 2G technology, and quickly became a recognised world leader in both supply chain management and brand-building.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

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.” Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. This is where you take early adopters who want to make a change. It just doesn’t happen that way.

Advice 11

Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

For good reason, the $30-billion company has long been held up as a role model of how to manage innovation. For 36 years, the company has used only first-year savings to tally the benefits of pollution prevention projects — that's an effective discount rate of, well, infinity. But there are signs of a feistier attitude brewing.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

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. medical) information, and, even, electrical grid management. medical) information, and, even, electrical grid management. Related Video.

Marketing 11

Marketing Advertising Technology Content 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

For example, it is a systemantic problem that the typical automated operations system (including Enterprise Resourcing Planning, Customer Relationship Management, e-commerce, and e-business solution systems) is unable to complete a whole process, end-to-end. Here, two humans orchestrate 300 robots that perform the work of 600 people.

Case Study 8

Case Study Software Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

How talent management is changing. A senior project manager cited the highly public immediate dismissal of a direct report who had fudged a quality control audit and then lied about it. A founder/entrepreneur immediately pointed to promoting the college drop-out into a senior management position over an MBA.

Examples 13

Examples Charisma Self-aware Mission Statement 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Machine learning, pattern recognition, and other predictive analytics tools can constitute a source of competitive advantage for those companies that adopt them early on; but like any new capability, there is an enormous gulf between awareness, intent and early engagement, and achieving significant business impact.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Machine learning, pattern recognition, and other predictive analytics tools can constitute a source of competitive advantage for those companies that adopt them early on; but like any new capability, there is an enormous gulf between awareness, intent and early engagement, and achieving significant business impact.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

This group saw that new mobile apps for patients (which measure and manage health outcomes) could yield clinical and financial benefits. The idea was presented to BIDMC’s senior-management operating council and then to the Board’s IT oversight committee. My wife was treated successfully and is now cancer-free.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This is an ambitious project and it’s not surprising because it’s founded by ever enterprising Sramana Mitra. Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Most decisions in organizations are made by escalating them up the management hierarchy — and it’s usually the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Consider these three examples from the frontiers of management: Funding decisions at most organizations are made by senior management or maybe an independent panel.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

The Encylcopedie was a project spearheaded by Denis Diderot, published in 28 volumes between 1751 and 1772. Those early adopters of technology – let’s call them entrepreneurs, or maybe even founders – helped drive overall economic vitality.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Early Adopters Education Technology 8