glasses_diffusionAre rapidly adopted innovations more valuable and important than innovations that take a long time to take hold? Not necessarily.

Post 011 is part of LE’s foundational series on diffusion theory.  Here’s the key point:  Speed of adoption is not a reliable guide for an innovation’s importance. In fact, competitive advantage is much more likely to lie among slower ideas where innovators focus on several key factors to accelerate the rate of adoption.

It is difficult to accept an insight this counterintuitive. Thus, we need an illustration.
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