The Horizons Tracker

MAY 10, 2021

Successful AI/ML implementation has clear benefits for early adopters — As organisations look to the future, IT and operations are the leading areas where they plan on adding AI and ML capabilities.

Early Adopters 83

Early Adopters Outsourcing Long-term Report 83

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters. We were also a little too smitten with our technology, and assumed it would immediately appeal to the “early majority” – who as described in E.M. Should I keep the work in-house, or outsource it?

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

While it may be possible to outsource analysis, the business translator role requires proprietary knowledge; some companies are therefore providing training to develop these capabilities from within. Early adopters are posting faster growth in operating profits , which enables them to continue innovating and solidifying their advantages.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 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.

Case Study 8

Case Study Software Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

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. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

First, they often outsource design and management of health care services to brokers, consultants, and health plans that have little means or incentive to improve quality or affordability. Learnings from these early adopters can jump-start the efforts of others. Conventional practice. jobs at home.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8