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Will Xiaomi Stop the iPhone in China?

Outside Innovation

million smartphones in the first half of 2015, 33% more than for the same period last year. of the market, closely followed by Samsung. Today, China is the world’s largest smartphone market, and Apple isn’t doing well there. At the April 2015 Xiaomi festival, the company sold over 2 million smartphones and pulled in 2.08

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

Managing cash, balancing this out with your liabilities and obligations, knowing your market dynamics, and equally, having a good understanding of where the future growth lies, are all essential for managing any healthy business. More of his businesses were far more vulnerable than he realized to the changes taking place in theie markets.

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

Steve Blank

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. During Jeff Immelt’s tenure GE’s stock-market value fell by about half.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

What if you owned your own bank? Smart assistants like Alexa (Amazon), Google Assistant (Google) or Siri (Apple) are the first mass-market examples of how voice interfaces could look like in the future. Currency – the bills and coins you carry in your wallet and your bank account – is founded on marketing.