Outside-in thinking allows early adopter companies to thrive, while others will struggle to redefine their value.
The same early adopter consumer that will buy a 5-incher will also want another, trimmer phone.
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Bernerd was a very early adopter of the trend, which is by now rampant.
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Anyone buying an Xbox 360 in 2012 is by definition not an early adopter.
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With strong engagement numbers, Caruso seems to like its role as such an early adopter so far.
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How do you know if your enterprise social platform has grown beyond just the early adopter stage?
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Amex has been an early adopter of social for some time, making a series of big plays.
It turns out that the features prized by early adopter consumers are also handy for business users.
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Marketing will identify and cultivate every potential client who might be an early adopter of our products.
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But I married an early adopter, which makes me a reluctant early adopter.
It was not the most adept early adopter of online ticketing, self-service airport kiosks or in-flight technology and entertainment.
Presumably the early adopter crowd looking for LTE are going to be locked into 24 month contracts with EE.
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Besides India, Bubble Motion has its eyes on Japan, as it is an early adopter of mobile phone services.
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Best Buy Chief Executive Brian Dunn says the company developed the program largely in response to these early adopter consumers.
For a city generally regarded as an early adopter of trends, it has been a long wait for Mumbai to get its first microbrewery.
But Amazon has neither the great hardware nor the perpetual early adopter.
Thanks for commenting brent lam, and it sounds like you are moving toward being an early adopter of electric vehicles, in some format.
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The Surrey Hotel in New York was an early adopter of the powerful Libra OnDemand software, which aids in "customer relationship management, " or CRM.
And whatever an Apple device might be missing, the perpetual early adopter usually takes in stride because so many good ideas are built around it.
These concepts of shared value creation and shared value consumption are currently early adopter trends, enjoying niche acceptance and having their first initial success cases.
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The auto industry was an early adopter in this new discipline.
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Sir Frank Crisp at Friar Park in Oxfordshire was another early adopter, with his grand country house garden housing several of the 1m-tall gnomes by the late 1890s.
Carrie Stevens, 29, is a Chicago-based witty, dynamic Internet early adopter.
"It's at a point where it's not just the early adopter, technophiles buying digital sets, " says John Revie , Samsung vice president of visual display marketing.
An early adopter of Internet banking, Wells Fargo has persuaded 25% of its customers to bank online, a higher fraction than any other big bank can boast.
This is, basically, a new ecosystem and it will certainly grow -- we're just advising patience if you insist on buying the Surface as an early adopter.
It's amazing to consider how many (original) bad hardware choices have been overcome with this new design, but also somewhat vexing if you were an early adopter.
So the early adoption speeds from early adopter markets suggests, that AR as a new mass medium would have approximately 1 Billion paying media audience by year 2020.
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Not surprisingly, an early adopter in the United States is innovator Interface, whose CEO Ray Anderson died earlier this year, leaving a strong legacy of sustainability.
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