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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Even the swiftest of fast followers will struggle to not choke on the dust of first movers in today’s world. Start thinking about opportunities based on insights, customers, markets, and business models. If you’re stuck in the purgatory of a legacy based business model, don’t transform – reinvent.

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First Mover or Fast Follower?

Harvard Business Review

The first innovators in the market are often too early in the technology curve. Here's one of the biggest that would-be innovators should ask: Should I lead or follow? Is the advantage to the "first mover" or should you be a "fast follower"? As you keep innovating, you create further space between you and the market.

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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. What has changed is the pace and scale at which businesses must innovate to remain competitive in a digital world.

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Is Blogging Dead?

N2Growth Blog

” If you read this article it would lead you to believe blogging is in decline and on it’s way out as a marketing tool. Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters. To extend marketing efforts. To build trust. To make money.

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The Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

The topic — part of a series on innovation sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development Board and coordinated by Harvard Business Review — was "What's the Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets: Target Customers at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid?". billion by 2030. Reaching this vast middle won't be easy, I said.

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The Building Blocks of Successful Corporate IT

Harvard Business Review

Market leaders and fast followers seek transformational change; cautious adopters and laggards dip their toe into incremental change. Market leaders and cautious adopters proactively seek change; fast followers and laggards take a reactive approach. Organizational DNA. See accompanying chart.)

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Samsung Pay’s Older Technology Could Be an Advantage

Harvard Business Review

The stakes are high in the mobile wallet market, projected to be over $140 billion by 2019. But Samsung’s new mobile wallet strategy may be a sign that they are finally becoming a true leader and shedding their image as a fast follower. When we consider how large the physical store market is ( $3 trillion in the U.S.