Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Fair or not, Microsoft has long had a reputation for being a fast follower. My hope is that more established, incumbent companies find the Xbox Live story inspirational and see category creation is a viable growth strategy for them as well. More specifically, it shows that big, established incumbents can drive category creation.

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Media Company IPO Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Tens of thousands of people are gathering to explore green building materials, designs, and strategies. But don't count them out for long; if there's one thing Chinese companies are good at, it's implementing a "fast follower" strategy. At the corporate level, they're looking to the U.S. and the West for best practices.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Energy Hotels 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

That change begins with answering three key questions: What is your organization's strategy for the near term, and how will you fulfill it? What kinds of people do you need to make the strategy a reality? But it's critically important if yours is a fast-growing organization. What you really need is a change in mindset.

Banking 8

Banking Fast Follower Tools Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. Tens of thousands of people are gathering to explore green building materials, designs, and strategies. Tens of thousands of people are gathering to explore green building materials, designs, and strategies.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

He covers three areas: Digital Plumbing (technology infrastructure), High-Beam Strategy (trendspotting), and creating a High-Velocity Culture (integrating different types of skills and lifestyles. The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”

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Chief Information Officer CIO ROI Technology 280

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. Operations Organizational culture'

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

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. Its foray into this industry comes on the heels of product entries by Google and Apple.

Technology 8

Technology Retail System Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Brown said P&G's size and stated strategy to expand its market to encompass 5 billion consumers worldwide means it has to look at all tiers of the market. He described how P&G's strategy is to win through branded products that offer consistent "delight" to consumers. The world simply moves too fast these days.

Marketing 13

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

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.

Company 8

Company Software Long-term Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. While some companies — most large banks, Ford and GM, Pfizer, and virtually all tech firms — are aggressively adopting artificial intelligence, many are not. We think this is a bad idea.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

She's outlined a long-term recovery strategy but the congealing critical consensus is that she's simply not moving fast enough. GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes.

Consensus 8

Consensus Welch Retail CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

But for the most part, the general strategy of the rich countries was to reject the NIEO broadly. Without sustained attention to proactively developing integrated market and nonmarket strategies, firms will be like generals fighting the last war. A few commodity agreements were signed, for example in sugar and rubber.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

“This is one of the risks of a fast-follower strategy,” Soledad said. .” After a pause, the nose ring guy spoke again. “Still doesn’t make sense to me. Something’s fishy.” ” Miguel put his head in his hands. “Consumers assume the lower-priced product is lower quality.”

Case Study 9

Case Study Price Brand Focus Group 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

That would be a fundamental shift in strategy, and one Samsung has shown little interest in making. Samsung has built its name over the past two decades on being the world's greatest Fast Follower. Then its designers would have to doggedly pursue that, no matter what competitors like Apple and Microsoft were doing.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Short-term Long-term 15