N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

When a new industry surfaces, the early adopters (first-movers) set-up shop, validate proof of concept, carve out their niche, and build very strong, if not in some cases, category dominant brands. Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. Estella’s Brilliant Bus mission is to provide a mobile instructional technology and training system that creates opportunities for self-paced educational learning. For more information, see Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. This leadership must come from you and your network of colleagues, partners and friends. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. This leadership must come from you and your network of colleagues, partners and friends. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. This leadership must come from you and your network of colleagues, partners and friends. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.)

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The pace of robot adoption may surprise us, just as the internet spread more quickly than many anticipated. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Freeways full of driverless cars and beer trucks are still far off, because of technological and regulatory limitations. So early preparation is needed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. On the contrary, many executives have made big technology bets but are now wondering why those investments haven’t yielded the kind of payoff they expected. Merely layering powerful technology systems on top of existing operations is not enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

3M's sustainability leadership has come mainly from its eco-efficiency success, but these practices are increasingly the norm in business. But most importantly, I heard about some great new products and technologies. It's also remarkably safe for users and technology — you can safely dip an iPhone in the stuff.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

We have Denise Brosseau, founder of the Thought Leadership Lab here on LDRLB. It would be really boring if we had a podcast talking about a podcast, so let’s talk about the book instead, and let’s talk about Thought Leadership Lab. Thought leadership does not happen overnight. DENISE: (laughs).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s. That is leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. Pilot customers are enthusiastic, but broader adoption is slow even with customer support and training. Shifts in mental models go deeper than traditional thought leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. The imperative is simple: find the early adopters, embrace them, adore them, support them, don't go away, don't let them down. Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’d like to discuss three BIDMC big-data applications that required both technical expertise and leadership — and that have helped our patients, including my family and me. To launch I2B2, the leaders of that effort assembled a coalition of senior IT people, throughout Harvard’s hospitals, who became early adopters.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The moment a hyped-up new technology garners mainstream attention, many businesses will scramble to incorporate it into their enterprise. It’s poised to revolutionize the way we do business and everyone in a leadership role should be thinking about it. Paper Boat Creative/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Improved engagement creates business value and strategic differentiation, and technology is enabling a shift from transactions to engagement. The recurring problem — culture always trumps technology in adoption of new tools. Haphazard approaches to engagement negate good intentions.

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