The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The research examines the Product Hunt platform, where entrepreneurs can test out their concept among early adopters, who offer feedback on whether the product is good or not. The researchers tested the impact of this sampling bias on around 6,000 products that had been released on Product Hunt between 2016 and 2018.

Entrepreneur 123

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Sample 123

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. A recent exploration of the German economy by the University of Maastricht showed just how big a problem this is, with productivity growth of just 0.3%

Innovation 116

Innovation Technology Audience Early Adopters 116

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

This in turn results in a lack of differentiation between suppliers and the commoditization of the product. The early adoption of any innovation comes with inevitable risks that can complicate its diffusion. At least that’s the logic. When it was tested, however, that wasn’t really what emerged. Uncertain spread.

Innovation 126

Innovation IPO Mass Marketing Early Adopters 126

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

When the COVID quarantine began, the early adopters/adapters on his team realized that since connecting with people is the central part of their job, they were going to have to find new ways to do it. All that time reclaimed from not traveling can leave some people feeling a little lost about productive ways to fill their days.

Early Adopters 243

Early Adopters Competitive Advantage Hotels Learning-by-Doing 243

CEO Blog

JANUARY 30, 2013

I often see products that sell lots in the first few week - this is normal early adopter. Largely depending on how well the market accepts the product. The device looks like a winner - but will it be? I think the next 90 days will tell. Then the sales either grow exponentially or fizzle. It will be interesting.

Early Adopters 178

Early Adopters Report Blog Productivity 178

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2023

The production of goods and services with smaller carbon footprints, also known as green technologies, is on the rise and presents numerous economic opportunities. Past technological revolutions have demonstrated that early adopters have an advantage in moving ahead and creating long-lasting benefits.

Technology 93

Technology Development Policies Cooper 93

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

And certain production environments provide richer data due to the processes they use.”. The results were then cross-referenced with data, including production inputs and outputs for the firm. The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. Strong returns.

Early Adopters 78

Early Adopters Sample Deming Objective 78

HR Digest

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Even companies that do not work in tech have had to open themselves to the possibility of using AI tools for productivity, management, and other administrative duties at the very least, even if they aren’t fully prepared for a complete evolution. can be incorporated into the work that is done at an organization.

Tools 52

Tools Early Adopters GDP Report 52

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 81

Early Adopters Outsourcing Long-term Report 81

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2021

Early adopters of the internet will remember just how odd our early engagements with the web were. Often, as an early adopter, you would type in a URL from a piece of paper you’d scrawled it upon, and this would take you to a website with a background that made overly heavy use of graphics.

Early Adopters 110

Early Adopters Content Mission Statement FAQ 110

Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. If they’ve been a product manager or a salesperson in the past, they’ll be better able to recruit individuals to lead that function for their startup. False Promises. Speed Traps. Eisenmann : The show is terrific!

Succession 65

Succession Entrepreneur Case Study Apparel 65

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

checklist of questions is a powerful tool for looking at your existing product/service lines and coming up with new variations. What new product or service could you offer to fight back against your deep pocketed competitors? Could you copy this tactic and focus laser-like on one main product? The S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

Incubator 238

Incubator Early Adopters Business Model Quality 238

Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2020

With traditional marketing online, the concept was to identify a key demographic that represents the ideal customer or client for their product or service. Rather than looking for a specific demographic, you are looking for the types of companies that would likely be interested in your product offering. What is Account-Based Marketing?

CRM 50

CRM Marketing Marketing Strategy Software 50

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Succession Self-aware Storytelling 65

Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. The iPhone platform is the best for mobile applications.

Early Adopters 154

Early Adopters Productivity Products Marketing 154

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

LDRLB

APRIL 10, 2014

But they also created a “lab” where they brought in real live customers to test-drive new online banking products. Here’s how to start: Identify the leading edge customers (customers that think creatively, ask for new things, or are your early adopters).

Innovation 119

Innovation Kaplan Banking Early Adopters 119

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

And what about the baby boomers who are “can-do,” purpose-driven early adopters who care more about learning than a gold watch, use Snapchat and listen to Jay Z?” Leading in the key of personality can orchestrate a harmonious, productive work environment. Millennials need more of this and less of that.

Covey 150

Covey How To Long-term Class 150

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2019

There is an acute understanding among millennials that in many of the free platforms and services they consume on a daily basis, they themselves are the product that the companies sell to advertisers. Even when their data isn’t being harvested for targeted advertising, it’s often tracked to personalize the customer experience. Smart homes.

Early Adopters 61

Early Adopters Technology Advertising Resistance 61

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As individuals, we take our cues from the early adopters and we learn what to do – and what not to do. Or they are serial product innovators making us “need” things we didn’t know we needed – anyone need another Swiffer with a disposable (and revenue-generating) attachment? It’s a different world. It changed.

Organization 236

Organization Kotter Real Estate Early Adopters 236

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

I’ve written previously about the power of flexible working to engage and excite workers, with research also showing that flexible workers are often more productive, due in large part to being sick less often, working longer hours and generally being happier at work.

Career 68

Career Early Adopters Policies Proposal 68

Mills Scofield

JUNE 9, 2014

Examples include Method Products, Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s and two of my favorites, Runa and Susty Party. Business Model: As an early adopter and co-creator of Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) , I use it the most.

ROI 132

ROI Business Model Venture Capitalist Early Adopters 132

Steve Farber

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

You’re probably familiar with the original form of crowdfunding: People with an interest in a start-up give money through a site such as Kickstarter in exchange for some reward (a first version of the product, a T-shirt, that sort of thing). If enough people give even a little, the startup can bank what it needs to get rolling.

Company 71

Company Due Diligence Early Adopters Banking 71

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

One leader of a division in a big multinational told me that after working with us and balancing his all-male team, performance, productivity and engagement all went up dramatically. I’ve had the honor and privilege of spending two decades working with early adopters of the future.

Diversity 52

Diversity Globalization Presenteeism CEO 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

But how do you build a successful platform if you only have products? In our recent HBR article , we explain the fundamentals of transforming products into platforms. What are the “best practices” of building platforms from products? Leveraging early adopters to accelerate platform adoption.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Early Adopters 8

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 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

People do not start selling early enough. People need to create their minimum viable product/service and test it as soon as possible, across as many subsets of their intended markets as possible. Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. Nobody wants to do sales.

Entrepreneur 134

Entrepreneur Education Learning-by-Doing Marketing 134

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Great companies are built on great products. If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky. Ignore them. Seth Godin.

Succession 120

Succession Entrepreneur Drucker Learning-by-Doing 120

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

You definitely LOVE your product more than others do. You put your product team on fire to ensure that you are well ahead of the competition. It was easy for you to get used to your product. You are very comfortable using your own product. It is now in your second nature to use your product.

Early Adopters 50

Early Adopters Audience Analysis Definition 50

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In a better and cheaper world, you use the term big bang disruption or the sort of shark fin to describe what this model looks like, that you scale up to those early adopters becoming the majority way quicker than you can predict nowadays. LARRY: Yeah. It’s a qualitative difference as well as a quantitative difference.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Why we need Help to Hire One of the priorities of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is increasing productivity by boosting skills and getting the economically inactive, particularly the over-50s, back into work. Experts suggest that more than half of the productivity gap between the UK and the USA can be attributed to poor management.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn''t necessarily invalidate it. The Two Kinds of MVP.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn’t necessarily invalidate it.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. Pilot customers are enthusiastic, but broader adoption is slow even with customer support and training. What’s missing? We all know the saying, “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Software Innovation 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

When we are satisfied with a product or service, we may tell three friends, but when we are dissatisfied, we’re inclined to tell (or Tweet) it to three thousand. Consider these two points: Roughly 80 percent to 90 percent of new products and services fail or drastically fall short of sales expectations in their first year.

Aaker 64

Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 64

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

After Everett Rogers famously made the distinction between early and late adopters , academics in marketing and technology identified a number of differences between those who take quickly to innovations and those who don’t. First, what worked with early adopters isn’t likely to work with later adopters.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Innovation Short-term Rogers 8