The Horizons Tracker

MAY 10, 2021

The failures underscore the complexities of building and running a productive AI and ML program. 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 82

Early Adopters Outsourcing Long-term Report 82

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Our products work with apps or without apps. We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters. What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. Rogers’ classic Diffusion of Innovation Theory – buy products en masse after the “early adopters.”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Spurred on by digital-native competitors, the retail sector has captured about 30% to 40% of the margin improvements and productivity growth we identified in 2011. 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

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. Define the product specifications. Conventional practice.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

If you are familiar with Microsoft’s Visio product, you can envision RPA tools functioning in the same way, with users dragging, dropping, and linking icons that represent steps in a process. Indeed, most of the RPA adopters we have studied have gone so far as to promise their employees that automation would not result in layoffs. (To

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