The Rogers Diffusion Curve maps the progress of adoption from invention through embrace to the final state. In these slides, that model is applied to the use of technology in the legal marketplace.
9. Figure 1. Percentage of Farm Operators First Hearing of Hybrid Seed
Corn and Percentages First Accepting It, by years
Source: Ryan, B., & Gross, N. C. (1943). The diffusion of hybrid seed
corn in two Iowa communities. Rural Sociology 8:15-24.
10. Percentage of Total Acreage Planted with Hybrid Seed
Source: “Hybrid Corn: An Explanation in the Economics of Technological Change” in
Technology, Education, and Productivity (1988).
11. Percentage of Total Acreage Planted with Hybrid Seed
Manufacturing
Finance
Medicine
Consulting
Law
Source: “Hybrid Corn: An Explanation in the Economics of Technological Change” in
Technology, Education, and Productivity (1988).
23. Variables Determining
Rate of Adoption
Dependent Variable to
Be Explained
Perceived Attributes of Innovation
1. Relative Advantage
2. Compatibility
3. Complexity
4. Trialability
5. Observability
Type of Innovation-Decision
1. Optional 2. Collective 3. Authority
Rate of Adoption
of Innovation
Communication Channels
Increased by more and better mediums
Nature of Social System
E.g, traditional versus modern, isolated
or interconnected to other systems
Efforts of Change Agents
Educational and promotional efforts
Adapted from Everett Rogers,
Diffusion of Innovation Fig 6.1 (2003)
24. Variables Determining
Rate of Adoption
Dependent Variable to
Be Explained
Perceived Attributes of Innovation
1. Relative Advantage
2. Compatibility
3. Complexity
4. Trialability
5. Observability
Type of Innovation-Decision
1. Optional 2. Collective 3. Authority
Rate of Adoption
of Innovation
Communication Channels
Increased by more and better mediums
Nature of Social System
E.g, traditional versus modern, isolated
or interconnected to other systems
Efforts of Change Agents
Educational and promotional efforts
Adapted from Everett Rogers,
Diffusion of Innovation Fig 6.1 (2003)
25. Increasing the Speed of Innovation: Lessons Learned
Relative Advantage
Substitutes to make better, faster, or cheaper
Reducing Complexity
Making adoption incremental and natural
Creating Observability
Showcasing others’ successes (cornfields)
Allowing Trialability
Pilots to decrease fear of adoption
Decision-Making
Mandated vs optional vs collective
Communication Channel
Mass media vs interpersonal vs internet
Leaders and Laggards
Across and within organizations
Interconnectedness
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts