The Horizons Tracker

MAY 10, 2021

Successful AI/ML implementation has clear benefits for early adopters — As organisations look to the future, IT and operations are the leading areas where they plan on adding AI and ML capabilities.

Early Adopters 81

Early Adopters Outsourcing Long-term Report 81

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2024

Once the infrastructure is in place, the operational expenses are considerably lower. Early adopters of renewable energy infrastructure can enjoy a competitive edge, cutting down on operational costs while supporting sustainable practices.

Energy 92

Energy System Incentives Supply Chain 92

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2021

Early adopters of the internet will remember just how odd our early engagements with the web were. Often, as an early adopter, you would type in a URL from a piece of paper you’d scrawled it upon, and this would take you to a website with a background that made overly heavy use of graphics.

Content 99

Content Early Adopters Mission Statement FAQ 99

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Some of us are “innovators” or “early adopters” whilst others are “laggards” The vast majority of us sit in the middle of the population as “The early or late majority” Again this is a people led model of change. As you can see from his C.V.

ADKAR 60

ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet. Also worth explaining to your colleagues is that the tech will put you in a highly competitive position: that of an early adopter.

Technology 68

Technology Banking Chief Financial Officer Chief Technology Officer 68

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Thankfully, a third study highlights how such attitudes are open to change, especially when managers gain experience with employees who operate with flexible work schedules, with the impact of their peers considerable. Changing attitudes.

Career 73

Career Early Adopters Policies Proposal 73

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. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate. In this case, it’s not.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Open-book 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2024

Norway, and other Scandinavian nations were early adopters of EVs, and Germany and Japan have long been automotive powerhouses, their EV markets have lagged in mass market adoption compared to China. More than half of the electric vehicles (EVs) on roads worldwide are found in China. While the U.S.,

Marketing 28

Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Automotive 28

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

For example, new TV channels have to depend on tens of thousands of small cable operators, who have set up networks in residential areas. cable operators fight TV channels while Amazon and Google take on publishers. The Indian entrepreneur's distribution headaches don't just affect operations. Even in the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Motorola is finally attempting a comeback with handsets using Google's Android operating system, but is now only a minor player.

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. This project just started its operations and we are learning each day to maximize all the utilities of the software and IT system for our everyday routine. But the main challenge is not how to operate the machine.

Software 15

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

From conversations with over 100 early adopters, we've found some elements that help IT teams and business leaders come to terms with the consumerization of IT. Organizations expect these solutions to not only integrate with ease but also not to harm existing systems or jeopardize how users perform daily work and operations.

Technology 16

Technology Early Adopters Bottom-up Software 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.”

Strategy 14

Strategy Early Adopters Proposal Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

An industrial paint application product/service that reduces toxic solvent use by 70% and is saving customers, mostly auto repair shops, $2 billion from simpler paint operations and reduced waste. It's also a sizable business for 3M. But there are signs of a feistier attitude brewing.

Innovation 16

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

We can provide the entrepreneurs with access to early adopter customers in the 170 countries in which we operate. We’re always looking for companies with brilliant ideas that we can partner with or acquire. With the entrepreneur ecosystem, we are behaving more like a Silicon Valley startup.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. It was supposed to provoke deeper thinking about capitalism and its future, but many early adopters understood the concept as a balancing act, adopting a trade-off mentality.

TBL 15

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Already, the scale of data collected by early adopters of this technology is staggering. Operations. The difference between how firms operate their businesses today and how these efforts will change with location analytics is profound. not visiting competitor venues).

Retail 12

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. The best online product companies make very small changes and give them to just a subset of early adopter customers who like to have the latest features and are happy to give suggestions for improvements. But when a product is delivered online (e.g., Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 14

Company Innovation Software Engineering 14

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. If so, they are operating with a different model of the current state.

Products 15

Products Productivity Software Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period. A well-known early adopter of the Net Promoter system began linking NPS improvement to executive compensation before it had developed adequate disciplines and processes for understanding its scores.

Incentives 13

Incentives Sample Metrics Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Computers wouldn’t just speed up processes or automate certain tasks — they could upset nearly all business processes and allow executives to rethink operations from the ground up. In our study of more than 30 pilots in early-adopter companies, we found five common business processes improved by machine-reengineering.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

It’s worth taking the plunge, and, in fact, there’s an early adopter advantage. And instead of optimizing specific marketing tasks, or working within individual marketing channels, these new tools can handle the entire process across all channels. The algorithms will continue to be refined.

ROI 15

ROI Tools Marketing CRM 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Early adopters could benefit considerably. Such platforms would add a transaction layer between consumers and program operators and merchants, likely generating a small per-transaction cost, which could grow over time, much like OTA fees.

Loyalty 15

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Rethinking the time-honored processes upon which our daily operations depended would require overcoming the complacency that pervades many large academic medical centers. We enlisted experts in operational effectiveness and service excellence, and both leaders and front line staff were trained on the principles of lean manufacturing.

Health Care 9

Health Care Ishikawa Lean Manufacturing Early Adopters 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. That’s still true. Core technologies such as cloud, mobility, modern applications, and networks continue to evolve.

Technology 8

Technology Content Business Model Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. So early preparation is needed.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

Survey 15

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The smartphone market is dominated by essentially two offerings, Apple phones with the iOS operating system and Samsung/HTC/other phones running on Android OS. Early adopters and innovators will no doubt rush to buy it, and they’ll show it off to their friends. Of course, expectations were high.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Public Relations Video Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology. This gap between insurers and customers can be widened into a gulf by trust brokers, who dominate the top-heavy insurance brokerage market and benefit from its opacity and byzantine operating standards.

Insurance 15

Insurance Industry Policies Market Penetration 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In many cases, the culprit is a gap between launching a few analytics experiments and embedding these insights into the operating model of the larger organization. Merely layering powerful technology systems on top of existing operations is not enough. Embracing data and analytics is not a tactic; it’s a transformation.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Observing early adopters, we’ve found that automated process change comes in three main flavors: self-adapting, self-repairing, or a combination of the two. Overall, more than half of respondents directly attributed significant, often exponential improvements in business processes to machine-learning-enhanced processes.

Process 13

Process Automotive Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Yet, more than 50 years after Peter Drucker devised the term knowledge worker, it is quite disappointing to peer inside the operations of any large organization and see how little of their time knowledge workers actually spend on higher-order thinking tasks. The Future of Operations. No underlying systems programming logic is touched.

Case Study 8

Case Study Software Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

“Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. The NTRS data also shows on-demand services have already moved beyond early adopters and are gaining traction among mainstream consumers who require that platforms be user-friendly and safe.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Video is no longer the cornerstone of revenue for cable operators. If a cable operator, for example, has a 10% loss in video subscribers, topline revenues are reduced by 6%, but profits only shrink by 4%. Consumption of OTT original programming skews heavily male and matches the profile of the typical early adopter of technology.

Video 8

Video Telecommunications Early Adopters Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. As with the markets it had entered earlier, the company launched a service targeted at early adopters, and then iterated quickly to add features to attract a wider audience.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Content Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. As with the markets it had entered earlier, the company launched a service targeted at early adopters, and then iterated quickly to add features to attract a wider audience.

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Content Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Like digital platforms, social media, martech, fintech, and numerous other innovations, the spoils of blockchain may go to early adopters who commit to ruthless innovation. However, there are many reasons to invest the time now to understand the technology and begin exploring specific marketing applications for your industry.

Marketing 14

Marketing Advertising Technology Content 14