The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2020

The researchers set out to explore what set the early adopters apart from their peers, and trawled through the database of academic papers held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. While many researchers jumped on the opportunity, however, this enthusiasm was far from universal. Creating impact.

Innovation 96

Innovation Early Adopters Technology Constraint 96

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This can be especially so with a more flexible form of part-time work, where employees work with their manager to reduce their work load while still having career progression opportunities open to them. ” To achieve this outcome however requires a fundamentally new approach to assigning job tasks, and indeed how to manage careers.

Career 73

Career Early Adopters Policies Proposal 73

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. Joan nurtured this avocation through her professional career, and slowly a theme emerged. Hold tight to your mission, values, and goals, but do not cling to your original assumptions about marketing and sales.

Entrepreneur 141

Entrepreneur Education Learning-by-Doing Marketing 141

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky. The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results.

Succession 121

Succession Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Drucker 121

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In a better and cheaper world, you use the term big bang disruption or the sort of shark fin to describe what this model looks like, that you scale up to those early adopters becoming the majority way quicker than you can predict nowadays. In this case, it’s not. LARRY: Yeah. LARRY: Here it is.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Open-book 60

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds. She discussed the issue on LBC News with Martin Stanford.

Learning-by-Doing 121

Learning-by-Doing Policies Article Skills 121

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Glassdoor has been consistently tracking the ChatGPT adoption rates ever since the AI came out and their numbers indicate that the use of the AI tool has gone up from 27 percent among the early adopters to 62 percent of professionals as of November. Regardless of industry, ChatGPT is finding room for itself in many a career.

Tools 59

Tools Content Early Adopters Software 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Some of their tactics included addressing employee feedback head-on, creating a program of formal career paths, increasing levels of recognition, and over-communicating expectations and goals. Founders should set expectations with their early employees that these changes are a natural part of the firm’s success.

Morale 15

Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Yet Semmelweis and Antioco had not only authority, but also had the facts on their side and were willing to risk their careers. It always seems that if we had a little bit more authority or had more data to back us up or were able to make our case more forcefully, we could drive our ideas forward. They failed nonetheless.

Leadership 15

Leadership Video Early Adopters Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As companies introduce software bots and digital self-service, and as they transform assembly lines, they must bring along their key employees, leaders, and customers as they redefine jobs, career paths, workforce management, and social contracts. So early preparation is needed. Start early to shift the leadership mindset.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

You can see a strong precedent for this in the open source software movement, which didn''t go mainstream until its early adopters progressed through the ranks. But today''s CMO is different: the corporate attire may be gone, but the assimilation to the new digital culture is incomplete.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing Information Technology CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Health Care Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Career advancement in mature companies usually demands avoiding conspicuous failures, while entrepreneurs must fail repeatedly to get ahead. Large companies serve mainstream customers, while innovative entrepreneurs first serve early adopters.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Marketing Retail 8

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2020

Supporting and enabling technology adoption. Technology promises to bring tremendous productivity advantages to society, yet adoption remains very uneven.

McKinsey 110

McKinsey Technology Early Adopters Policies 110