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Even the swiftest of fastfollowers will struggle to not choke on the dust of first movers in today’s world. Start thinking about opportunities based on insights, customers, markets, and business models. If you’re stuck in the purgatory of a legacy based business model, don’t transform – reinvent.
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The first innovators in the market are often too early in the technology curve. Here's one of the biggest that would-be innovators should ask: Should I lead or follow? Is the advantage to the "first mover" or should you be a "fastfollower"? As you keep innovating, you create further space between you and the market.
The topic — part of a series on innovation sponsored by Singapore's Economic Development Board and coordinated by Harvard Business Review — was "What's the Right Entry Point for Emerging Markets: Target Customers at the Bottom or the Middle of the Pyramid?". billion by 2030. Reaching this vast middle won't be easy, I said.
The mobile devices that have been most affected by the jury's decision are a combination of the Android operating system, physical product design that's reacting to current market trends, and a hodgepodge of third-party apps and software. Samsung has built its name over the past two decades on being the world's greatest FastFollower.
There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.
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Speed to market" isn't what's driving the change. More often than not, the real "speed" challenge most leaderships face is quickly determining whether they're trying to better follow, lead or transform the customers and clients they have. Being a "fastfollower" is much easier to manage than being a "fast transformer."
They are planning to be “fastfollowers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. If you want to affect customer engagement, for example, you will need to develop or adapt multiple AI applications and tasks that relate to different aspects of marketing, sales, and service relationships.
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