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utnubuuser
July 5th, 2010, 01:39 AM
Found this great Ted Talks video by Simon Sinek about how innovative leadership works and the processes involved in bringing new ideas to fruition.

http://sazeit.com/main/Ted-Talks-Video-of-the-week

The reason I'm posting the link here is because at approximately minute 11:00 in the video, Simon draws a graph showing how new products reach market penetration/dominance.

The whole 18 minute video is worth watching, but the graph on product/idea adoption really jumped out at me in the context of Ubuntu/Linux operating systems.

The gist of it is that approximately 2.5% of the population innovates, the next 13.5% are early adopters, followed by an early majority at 34%, then 34% late majority, then the laggers who only adopt when there's no other choice.

papangul
July 5th, 2010, 03:17 AM
The gist of it is that approximately 2.5% of the population innovates, the next 13.5% are early adopters, followed by an early majority at 34%, then 34% late majority, then the laggers who only adopt when there's no other choice.
Thank you for the gist, although I am feeling a bit curious about the remaining 16%.(they never adopt I guess.:-k)

utnubuuser
September 17th, 2010, 03:46 AM
the "laggers"... those who only adopt when they absolutely have to.

Brunellus
September 17th, 2010, 06:01 PM
I am inclined to move this to "recurring discussions."

Back in 2006, I wrote a blog post about how the IBM/Intel/Microsoft alliance conquered the desktop:

http://ouij.livejournal.com/167664.html

The upshot: individual users didn't drive mass adoption. Large IT organizations drove mass adoption through procurement.