Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” Speed is our friend in almost every case.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea. System Development Time. System Development Time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. Operations Organizational culture'

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Apple's recent legal victory over Samsung has prompted an outpouring of worried speculation about the future of technology and design that's almost unprecedented. Bloggers and reporters are pushing this idea from a business- or technology-oriented mindset. Some of the concerns being raised are valid. It creates love.

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