The Technology Adoption Life Cycle

I have spent time this week working on a new piece for Cutter on emerging technologies such as cloud computing and MDM. Interestingly, I returned to a tried and true concept—the Technology Adoption Life Cycle. For those of you unfamiliar with TALC, Wikipedia defines it as a model that:

...describes the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation, according to the demographic and psychological characteristics of defined adopter groups. The process of adoption over time is typically illustrated as a classical normal distribution or "bell curve." The model indicates that the first group of people to use a new product is called "innovators," followed by "early adopters." Next come the early and late majority, and the last group to eventually adopt a product are called "laggards."

While enterprise technologies have certainly changed in my fifteen years of working with them, one question continues to intrigue me: Which type of organization is most likely to be on the left side of TALC?