The analysis showed, that the tested tools cannot be employed in the early design phases without adoption and customization, lacking of benchmarks and extensive data representing the largest problem for a reliable LCC calculation and optimization.
It is now being used through phases of adoption evaluation.
It distinguishes four phases – dissemination, adoption, implementation, and sustainability – as crucial steps to the adequate diffusion of innovations (35, 44, 45).
1. "Technology Trigger" The first phase of adoption is the "technology trigger" or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest.
My hope is that we can approach this next phase of adoption with the grace that we have met every other parenting challenge that has faced us –- with confidence, and comfort, and chocolate.
In the first phase, called adoption in principle, the authors emphasize the importance of setting a policy priority at national level and having clinical guidelines.
Our results indicate that demographic variables, disease burden, self-reported symptoms, physical functioning and social cognitive variables together predicted 10% of the variance in percent attendance during both the adoption phase and the transition phase.
An interesting question relates to how the perception as well as the relative dominance of different product qualities evolve across different phases in the adoption of a product.
Five main factors are found in the other three phases of the adoption and implementation process: training, communication, rewards, job design, and work organization.
