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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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Take Smarter Risks through Discovery Driven Planning

KindlingApp

This is why the principles found in lean methodology have been so widely accepted and applied; the ability to be agile and adjust are the characteristics of top-tier organizations. In 1995, the Harvard Business Review published an article on Discovery Driven Planning (DDP). DDP vs. Stage-Gate.