Leading Blog
MARCH 18, 2011
In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”
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.
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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. Many leaders have fallen into the trap of believing digital transformation is like playing a game of technology catch-up.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 14, 2012
Yet, here are some of the questions that audience members asked me at a talk I gave at a recent banking conference (courtesy of Pigeonhole , one of my favorite Singaporean startups): "There are often education costs and risks of losing business among the technology laggards. Are the majority of our banking customers ready for change?".
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2015
But Samsung’s new mobile wallet strategy may be a sign that they are finally becoming a true leader and shedding their image as a fast follower. The irony is that they are embracing an older payment technology to pave the way for new growth, new visibility, and new strategic wiggle room.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. VW: Tooling up for sustainability ". Batteries still drag 'green vehicle' effort ". And on and on. In the U.S.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 26, 2011
China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. It isn't producing results in terms of new companies, jobs, or economic growth in general, yet billions more flow into NIH and universities every year.
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