N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Even the swiftest of fast followers will struggle to not choke on the dust of first movers in today’s world. Don’t attempt to compete with those who are more evolved, piggy-back off of them, partner with them, engineer around them, on move out in front of them. Think next chapter vs last book.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 29, 2012
Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters. To improve search engine rankings. Where Are We Now? To acquire knowledge or business intelligence. To engage a particular constituency or constituencies. To make money. To extend marketing efforts.
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 6, 2018
They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. There is a lot of taxonomy and local knowledge that needs to be incorporated into the AI system —similar to the old “knowledge engineering” activity for expert systems. Integration Time.
Leading Blog
MARCH 18, 2011
The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” Software engineers, developers, and programmers must be viewed as the artists of this generation. * * *. So all you have to do is look at the industry you are in and identify all the things that are wrong with it….Next,
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 10, 2011
There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever. But one thing is certain: Learning from a missed opportunity and then innovating beyond it helps anyone get back in the game.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 1, 2015
The contrast could not be clearer: Amazon – fearlessly making big, risky bets like a serial entrepreneur; and Microsoft, eschewing disruptive innovation in favor of remaining the “ fast follower ” it has always been, wringing profit from previously proven technologies.
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