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GovTech: From Great Challenges to Great Opportunities

CREATORS

Inflexibility of processes, bureaucracy, complicated and abundant regulation as well as slow adoption of new solutions or technology are common themes around the GovTech world. We have a national legislation on public procurement that makes it difficult to purchase technological solutions, especially those offered by startups.

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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. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In response to reading Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup , GE adopted Lean and built their Fastworks program around it.