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Will Immelt's Retirement Lead to the Break-up of GE?

Michael Roberto

After all, one has to wonder how powerful the scope economies (synergies) are when combining a healthcare company and a jet engine manufacturer under one corporate parent. Welch and Immelt were each ten years younger when they became CEO in 1981 and 2001 respectively. Is the whole not worth the sum of the parts? He is 55 years old.

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Make Digital Disruption Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

Daniel Burrus

Like education, both manufacturing and healthcare have seen early disruptions driven by advanced automation and robotics, e-patient records and telemedicine. Education has felt the early impact of digital disruption from online or distance schooling, and a few other innovations, but the big disruptions have not hit yet.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Directive 2004/27/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use. 5 Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Retrieved April 2008, from www.lloydspharmacy.com/wps/portal/aboutus/pr. 2 European Commission.

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IA Summit 10 - Richard Saul Wurman Keynote

Boxes and Arrows

I have three books called: “Understanding USA ,&# “Understanding Children,&# “Understanding Healthcare.&# It’s that the new century began in 2001 not in 2000. Something I don’t understand, I want to make it understandable. I had a company called the “Understanding Business.&# Landed on it.