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

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

It ranges in scale from minor improvements to customer-facing processes to innovations that are expected to ‘change the face’ of entire industries, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility. Clues for early identification.

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

It ranges in scale from minor improvements to customer-facing processes to innovations that are expected to ‘change the face’ of entire industries, such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility. Clues for early identification.