First-mover Advantage, Marketing and Technology

A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

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. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

Survey

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology

How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage.

First-mover Advantage

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations

How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage.

First-mover Advantage

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations

NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity.

IPO

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility

Business Model Innovation is the Gift that Keeps on Giving

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

In contrast, consider the following: Pfizer's blockbuster drug Viagra was patented in 1996, and went on the market in 1998. Before long, despite all the first mover advantages of Viagra, the competitors reduced Viagra's market share from over 90% to around 50%. Was Zara better at protecting its innovation?

Business Model

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel

Four Ideas for Creating Mobile Strategy

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Mobile technology presents all marketers with a tantalizing proposition. The chance to tap into this ever-present and intimate consumer channel at such tremendous scale seems like a no-brainer for marketers. But marketing spend on mobile pales in comparison to time spent there by consumers. At my company, Mondel?z

Strategy

Strategy Advertising First-mover Advantage ROI

Best Practices for Leading via Innovation

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency. Broaden perspectives.

Innovation

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility

Strategy and The Uncertainty Excuse

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

This is an argument I hear particularly often in high-technology sectors. They may be strategizing their way to first mover advantages and positions that leave few if any attractive options in the market. There isn't enough certainty, they argue, to be able to do strategy effectively.

Uncertainty

Uncertainty Strategy First-mover Advantage Fashion

What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. . billion a decade later.

Banking

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance

The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain.

Cost

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur

Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

IPO

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets

Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness. What markets have these companies actually won?

First-mover Advantage

First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation

What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

LivingSocial is not the first to create a compelling coupon offer. That honor goes to the market leader, Groupon. But a new study shows that no amount of buzz, excitement or first mover's advantage will lead a product to sustained growth. million units sold in a single day ).

First-mover Advantage

First-mover Advantage Venture Capitalist Dunning Early Adopters

Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Business Model Innovation is the Gift that Keeps on Giving

Four Ideas for Creating Mobile Strategy

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Strategy and The Uncertainty Excuse

What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to Silicon Valley

What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer

Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

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