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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. To begin cracking that code, one must understand that innovations of this era are unlike anything we have ever seen before.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. To begin cracking that code, one must understand that innovations of this era are unlike anything we have ever seen before.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. To begin cracking that code, one must understand that innovations of this era are unlike anything we have ever seen before.

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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

The Disruptability Curve presented in my previous blog , is a modest addition to this collection. The Disruptability Curve has two axes. This could be due to a favorable set of regulations, processes, brand, network and technologies or any combination thereof. The Y axes denotes the barrier of entry to the industry.

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The only two measures that matter

David Marks

The Disruptability Curve presented in my previous blog , is a modest addition to this collection. The Disruptability Curve has two axes. This could be due to a favorable set of regulations, processes, brand, network and technologies or any combination thereof. The Y axes denotes the barrier of entry to the industry.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

Others are being disrupted. Reviews, social media, mobile devices and so on mean that the quantity of information customers have on products, services, support issues, and ethical behavior makes them agile than the companies who serve them. And it’s a good thing, since their current business model is facing massive disruption.

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