The Horizons Tracker
MAY 10, 2021
The laggards are generally suffering from outdated technology, poor data quality, and a lack of internal knowledge. The top causes for failure include lack of data quality (36%), lack of expertise within the organisation (34%), poorly conceived strategy (31%) and lack of an integrated development environment (27%).
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2017
We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters. And we get feedback from our customers that quality and aesthetics still matter more than smart features. Rogers’ classic Diffusion of Innovation Theory – buy products en masse after the “early adopters.”
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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.
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.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. The result is predictable: immense and costly variation in access, quality, and safety. It is a costly mistake.
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