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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. Things will not stay the same at GE.”. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

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Business Model Innovation 2020? - From Lean Startups to Impact Startups.

The BMI Lab Blog

Lean startup, coined by Eric Ries and previously described in the book “The Four Steps to Epiphany” (2005) by Eric’s mentor Steve Blank, is singing from the same song-sheet. A study by the Danske Bank in 2018 showed that already 10% of all Nordic startups are so-called Impact-Startups, which address at least one of the SDGs.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

What if you owned your own bank? Think at Transferwise borderless bank account: it can be opened online everywhere in the world, accepts payments in every currency and charges none or very small fees regardless of the currency or your location. And on the belief that banks and governments are trustworthy.