Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

After pricing (89 percent), executives cited their primary competitive weapons as improving product value (88 percent), improving innovation (85 percent), and increasing product promotion (69 percent), pointing to a world where firms are grappling for larger pieces of a static pie, not a world where the pie itself is growing larger.

First-mover Advantage 11

First-mover Advantage Supply Chain Price Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Before long, despite all the first mover advantages of Viagra, the competitors reduced Viagra's market share from over 90% to around 50%. First, the innovation is often in the firm's processes that may not even be directly visible to competitors. Within 5 years, it had two mighty competitors — Cialis and Levitra.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Toyota's decade-long investment in its Prius sub-brand ultimately succeeded in strengthening the company's reputation as a respected product innovator while allowing Toyota to capture first-mover advantage in the fast-growing hybrid category. Enable organizational agility.

Innovation 16

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Furthermore, strong competition in streaming already exists in many countries.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Furthermore, strong competition in streaming already exists in many countries.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

This could take the form of a mobile-based deal on gum mapped to a consumer's daily commute when people are most likely to be chewing gum, or delivering a coupon on candy to a consumer's phone while they're in a long check-out line, engrossed in their phone instead of looking up at product displays. Get in on the ground floor of mobile video.

Strategy 9

Strategy Advertising First-mover Advantage ROI 9

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. private briefings of product road maps).

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. billion a decade later. Now the country is at a crossroads. Years of economic mismanagement.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Now, thousands of companies are jumping on the latest trend trying to generate buzz for their products. Putting aside whether coupon sites are sustainable , all this begs the question of the value of buzz and being a first mover. I'd say it does, but only if the product you are selling delivers real value.

First-mover Advantage 15

First-mover Advantage Venture Capitalist Dunning Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

To ensure first mover advantage, the schedule was extremely aggressive. Once the project was under way, it became clear that to hit the launch date, the production ramp-up phase would have to be reduced. This could be achieved only by taking shortcuts in the production validation and evaluation processes.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

To ensure first mover advantage, the schedule was extremely aggressive. Once the project was under way, it became clear that to hit the launch date, the production ramp-up phase would have to be reduced. This could be achieved only by taking shortcuts in the production validation and evaluation processes.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

First, the convenience of predictive shipping makes it much less likely that you purchase the items from a competing retailer as the products are conveniently delivered to your home before you buy them elsewhere. This approach offers two benefits to Amazon.

Strategy 8

Strategy First-mover Advantage Business Model Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In our research on the telecom industry, for example, we found that the great majority of the executives we surveyed preferred internal development to external sourcing when they needed to develop differentiated products and services. We get similar results in other industries, though the preferred growth mode may differ.

Strategy 14

Strategy First-mover Advantage Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The good news: By engaging this market segment and rebuilding trust, health care companies can have a first-mover advantage. They must first develop gender smarts with customers and exhibit the behaviors women seek, as decision makers, to serve their needs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

But America's edge is eroding fast as it struggles to keep first-mover advantage over its innovations. Having spun off its hardware production divisions over the past decade, IBM now invests in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, clean energy, and devices for high-tech health care.

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9