Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

Littman & Camp : We wanted to give the entrepreneurial community a new roadmap for personal and team growth. Susanna has a big techie network, as an early community leader at the pivotal publication Wired and then on the staff of Macworld , PCWorld and Outside magazines. We both started in tech in San Francisco.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Littman & Camp : We wanted to give the entrepreneurial community a new roadmap for personal and team growth. Susanna has a big techie network, as an early community leader at the pivotal publication Wired and then on the staff of Macworld , PCWorld and Outside magazines. We both started in tech in San Francisco.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. CMI endorses MHFA England ’s call for managers to be equipped with the skills to bring out the very best in their teams.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Consider Adobe’s new content-marketing strategy. Dubbed the Marketing Cloud, this new platform would enable websites to show the right images to the right customers at the right time. Adobe then went on a content-marketing spree. They used content marketing for thought leadership, in the true meaning of the term.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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Marketing Advertising Technology Content 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

” Haller’s team was able to put together a prototype and present it to the client within 90 days. In this case, Haller and his team only needed to know whether if the customer would indeed be willing to pay for the product they had asked for. This isn’t market research, but hands-on problem solving.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

A talented videogame-designing friend had a ready quip whenever start-up executives asked him if he was a “team player.” “Yes,” Yes,” he always responded, “team captain.” Makes teams better” is fast-becoming both an essential ingredient to getting hired and a mission-critical skill-set worth measuring. He usually got hired.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions? They encourage viral marketing through early adopters.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

However, this startup cultural utopia invariably hits a rough patch for about 70% of startups in years three to four, regardless of how happy the team was before. Founders should set expectations with their early employees that these changes are a natural part of the firm’s success. We call this the “cultural chasm.”

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Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

The Kickstarter ecosystem brings together makers, backers, and early adopters as well as community building experts, videographers, and storytellers. It is a barn-raising model that has enabled hundreds of thousands of individuals and teams to create and launch new products in the span of a few years.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

As PE funds have become more like firms, they’ve required more attention to talent and leadership, and to ensuring that both deal teams and support teams can function at the highest possible level. LCPs also increasingly participate in fund-raising meetings with deal teams. About 20% of the CEOs had to be changed twice.

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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. One of GE’s mantras is therefore “ mindshare before market share.”

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Productivity Products Software Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Large decreases in costs by eliminating the waste of fully developing features that fail in the market. Each team is responsible for a small product function such as registering a new customer or taking a credit card payment. The ability to test new ideas quickly and cheaply, run experiments, and back out if there are any problems.

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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.” But early reports suggest that professions from medicine to manufacturing are interested while consumers remain wary. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

RadioShack has long suffered from unfocused positioning, while Sprint has wrestled with customer retention issues and acquisition pressure in a market dominated by cellular giants AT&T and Verizon. Sprint would be the primary brand on the stores and marketing materials. Joining forces could breathe new life into both brands.

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Wireless Brand Due Diligence Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

When you consider that the annual market value predictions for AI techniques range between $3.5 Right now, the biggest companies in the world are scooping up these experts to populate their teams because they understand that the key to building a robust, successful AI practice is to find and retain the right talent. trillion and $5.8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

Newly minted college grads face resistance to bringing their own devices to work, have to collaborate with ancient tools that lack basic Google Docs functionality, and face social media policies crafted by clueless legal teams without an understanding of the social psyche. So what's a business supposed to do?

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Technology Early Adopters Bottom-up Software 15

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. Engage your customer-facing teams in working sessions to pull apart defect-ridden customer experiences.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Data scientists continue to be in high demand, but companies are also scrambling to attract or develop “business translators” who can ask the data science team the right questions and apply the results to practical business problems. Another critical piece of the puzzle is acquiring the right capabilities.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

So when the messaging service WhatsApp entered the market, in 2009 , allowing users to send messages to anyone for free and regardless of their mobile carrier, people gravitated toward the platform. WhatsApp was originally marketed as an app with one purpose: messaging. Direct messaging is the next frontier in digital marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

With Novec Fluids, the team is not only working with key customers and early adopters, but it's also pushing the market toward greener options by advocating for tougher government standards and regulations. But there are signs of a feistier attitude brewing.

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Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Top startups already have market leading solutions. In fact, BMW’s greatest co-innovation success, 12 years earlier, had been in a “venture client” relationship with an early stage startup: Mobileye, now a leader in collision-avoidance technology. Private VCs and other professional investors can provide the first two.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Do Jeff Bezos and his team want to exploit the vast cross-selling opportunities because of the presumed similarities between Amazon Prime members and Whole Foods customers? Growing the market for healthy foods. Speculation continues to percolate on the implications of Amazon’s recently completed $13.7-billion

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Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In general, early adopters of RPA find that automation radically transforms operations, delivering much lower costs while improving service quality, increasing compliance (because everything the software does is logged), and decreasing delivery times. Here, two humans orchestrate 300 robots that perform the work of 600 people.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

That’s a difference of over 4 to 1, but is it really that surprising that most people would rather join a passionate team than try to build something themselves from the ground up? Just imagine: a whole team of people passionate about the same vision, working towards the same goals without any dead weight dragging them down.

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Leadership Early Adopters Follow-up Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

He became an early adopter of social computing tools to communicate with employees, and in the process became a role model for adoption among his senior executive team, as well as the employee population. Coleman began blogging and soon his senior executives encouraged their teams to do so as well.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Private equity firms and insurers were among the early adopters, utilizing these innovations for investment pre-screening and claims automation. Rethink team organization, leveraging decreased specialization requirements to create more adaptable and versatile structures.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

At heart, the algorithms and computation are dedicated to unearthing novel patterns, which is what science, technology, markets, and the humanistic arts have done throughout the story of humankind. Even in these early days, practices of successful early adopters offer several useful lessons: Find and own valuable data no one else has.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

When you’re shopping around for a new technology — be it a customer relationship management (CRM) program or software to better manage employee timesheets — bear your team’s interests in mind. “Encourage your team to do trials, get feedback from users, and learn from that before you take the jump,” he says.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 4, 2017

Most of them revolve around the role of marketing. Those who doubt the value or efficacy of marketing cite the success of such startups as Slack, Atlassian and WhatsApp, which launched with limited investment in marketing. Launch with a cross-functional team. CEOs need to be on the team, but as players, not coaches.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

That honor goes to the market leader, Groupon. True to form, results from an initial study demonstrated that buzz and social influence generated early adoption and the more a song was discussed, reviewed and downloaded, the more people wanted the song. But then Petland's research team took that data and dissected it further.

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First-mover Advantage Venture Capitalist Dunning Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Both small startups and large-scale technology companies are eyeing the possibilities this presents, and some are teaming up. Early adopters could benefit considerably. IBM, for example, is partnering with startup Loyyal to develop blockchain infrastructure for loyalty and rewards programs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Perhaps most important, marketers are asking, is this something that will drive revenue? This could be because they are more loyal early adopters or because those who've joined since haven't had as much time to convert their activity to buying. Canada, U.K., and Australia, to talk about their pinning habits.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. Team building strategies – what is appropriate for a bootstrapped stage versus what is needed for funding.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Back then however, Hughes’s contribution helped mobilize a relatively small portion of volunteers, those already familiar with social media — mainly young people and early adopters. In this article, I review three critical aspects to watch: marketing, operations, and profiling.

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