N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
Even the swiftest of fast followers will struggle to not choke on the dust of first movers in today’s world. Stop thinking about managing the risk of technology, tools, and process improvement. If you’re stuck in the purgatory of a legacy based business model, don’t transform – reinvent.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 11, 2017
The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. Great leaders will drive real digital transformation while others will simply manage their way into a digital free fall.
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Leading Blog
MARCH 18, 2011
The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” By viewing technology construction as an artistic endeavor rather than a mechanical one, we are freed to not only build applications that have a stronger ROI, but also to do a better job of managing IT people.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2013
Market leaders and fast followers seek transformational change; cautious adopters and laggards dip their toe into incremental change. Market leaders and cautious adopters proactively seek change; fast followers and laggards take a reactive approach. IT management Information & technology Strategy'
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 4, 2014
Are managers particularly concerned about the impacts of climate change on their businesses? Part of the disconnect stems from what’s said by company leaders versus what a broad selection of managers think. If we believe the results of a recent MIT Sloan and BCG survey , the answer is no. But it may not be that dire.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
Of course, the congealing critical consensus is that current P&G CEO Bob McDonald isn't moving fast enough. This "too fast/too slow" leadership conundrum reeks of "Goldilocks" management — transformations and turnarounds should be neither too fast nor too slow; they must be "just right." That's a mug's game.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
But dont count them out for long; if theres one thing Chinese companies are good at, its implementing a "fast follower" strategy. But dont count them out for long; if theres one thing Chinese companies are good at, its implementing a "fast follower" strategy. At the corporate level, theyre looking to the U.S.
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