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. In an age of smartphones, AI, and genetics, it seems crazy to think that the record sums invested in technology aren’t making more of an impact. in 1992.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

In the same way, digital disruption is not about the technology as much as it is about how companies can make their way through the new competitive environment they find themselves in. Digital disruption is more about the people than it is the technology. The authors introduce the concept of digital maturity.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

The early adoption of any innovation comes with inevitable risks that can complicate its diffusion. The examples highlight the various risks that can befall any new innovation, whether it’s societal backlash, faults in the technology, or simply misalignment with the needs of the market. Uncertain spread.

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Engaging Leader

JULY 17, 2013

I was not one of social media’s early adopters. Aspendale Blog Communication skills Feedback Social media Tactics Technology' I finally got on Facebook in 2009, roughly the same time as your grandmother. Not until 2011. All those hashtags and short URLs confused me.

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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. They adapt their plan to a virtual world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2024

Because the market has reached a difficult point in the technology-adoption lifecycle. Specifically, automakers and policymakers alike can no longer make plans based on what early adopters of EVs want. Surprisingly, the EV market has stalled in recent years.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 5, 2022

“Chatbot technology is a good innovation with the capabilities of improving not only teaching and learning but all other aspects of education,” the authors write. There have also been fears among some early adopters that they provide information too easily, and therefore inhibit the critical thinking skills of users.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There are a lot of benefits from the integration of AI technology, a possible 7 percent boost to global GDP according to the report, but when paired with apprehensions about unemployment, it results in an equal amount of worry for the future. As AI becomes more accessible, it also becomes more easy to adopt.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 4, 2012

Of course, with these technological advancements in what BPM can achieve come an equal increase in the complexity of the people related hurdles that managers must overcome to ensure successful execution. You can target early adopters. Complexity is much more manageable. You're not spreading resources too thinly.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2020

This means that innovators are not necessarily inventing completely new things, but rather applying existing technologies in new ways. The researchers set out to explore what set the early adopters apart from their peers, and trawled through the database of academic papers held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2024

Norway, and other Scandinavian nations were early adopters of EVs, and Germany and Japan have long been automotive powerhouses, their EV markets have lagged in mass market adoption compared to China. More than half of the electric vehicles (EVs) on roads worldwide are found in China. While the U.S.,

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. By 2010, around 75% of the sample had adopted some form of predictive analytics, although most of these firms only used the tools sporadically, despite higher intensity use being linked with greater returns.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 10, 2021

The laggards are generally suffering from outdated technology, poor data quality, and a lack of internal knowledge. Globally we’re seeing IT decision-makers turn to these technologies to improve efficiency and customer satisfaction.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

When a new industry surfaces, the early adopters (first-movers) set-up shop, validate proof of concept, carve out their niche, and build very strong, if not in some cases, category dominant brands. Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2019

Seldom has a generation attracted quite so many comments and stereotypes as millennials, but perhaps the most enduring is that they’re digital natives, who on account of growing up surrounded by technology, they are instantly at home with the latest gadgets and technologies in a way that older generations simply are not.

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Change Starts Here

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

One summer, the company put on a Technology Expo to show off all the futuristic technology they were developing. And yet even though I saw it in action twenty years ago, it still feels like I’m driving this futuristic technology. And what can it tell us about some of the prerequisites for change adoption?

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. Estella’s Brilliant Bus mission is to provide a mobile instructional technology and training system that creates opportunities for self-paced educational learning. For more information, see Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2020

Just as there are always early adopters of new technologies, the ABM movement offers a tremendous opportunity to market leaders to increase their profits by looking for whales rather than guppies. If you are going to implement an ABM strategy, you will need to make sure your CRM can properly match leads to accounts. Conclusion.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Technologies such as Yammer and Work.com have been changing how we collaborate and manage performance respectively. The HR Technology Conference shed some light on how social tools will change HR in the coming years. Technology is not important, but without the emotional buy-in of employees, this will never work.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. No startup finds traction without at least one Evangelist, the person who frames your purpose and story – whether that’s pitching for funding, attracting talent or gathering a critical mass of early adopters and followers.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. No startup finds traction without at least one Evangelist, the person who frames your purpose and story – whether that’s pitching for funding, attracting talent or gathering a critical mass of early adopters and followers.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. No startup finds traction without at least one Evangelist, the person who frames your purpose and story – whether that’s pitching for funding, attracting talent or gathering a critical mass of early adopters and followers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Core technologies such as cloud, mobility, modern applications, and networks continue to evolve. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. That’s still true. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 1, 2019

“ The rate at which new skills and disciplines are emerging, especially in technologies such as machine learning and AI, universities are saying that they simply don’t have the faculty to keep up,” Maggioncalda continues. Lifelong learning.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.” In other words, managing the behaviors—and misbehaviors—of your innovation’s early adopters/lead user community may determine success far more effectively than managing its initial features and flaws.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? He suggests six further measures that would help, including a cash grant to support early adopters of the lifelong loan entitlement and reforming the Apprenticeship Levy scheme. How to close the say-do gap and tap into hidden talent?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. It starts with a trickle : To illustrate this challenge from my own experience, let's look at the example of drip irrigation , a technology that has been around for more than 50 years. So how to reduce these risks and accelerate early adoption?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Or we might scoop up the devices that our less wired friends have overlooked, seizing the opportunity to "fix" their lapses by gifting the technologies they ought to have adopted already. In either case, we might forget that the gadget gift, while cool, is also the gift of putting someone on a technology treadmill.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Because early adopters are used to products that break. The feature? Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Economic activities centered around online platforms, where independent sellers can offer goods or services to customers, are attracting significant consumer attention and spending, according to new data from the National Technology Readiness Survey* (NTRS), which has tracked technology behaviors and beliefs in the U.S. since 1999.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The pace of robot adoption may surprise us, just as the internet spread more quickly than many anticipated. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Freeways full of driverless cars and beer trucks are still far off, because of technological and regulatory limitations. So early preparation is needed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. Innovation Strategy Technology'

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