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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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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. To begin cracking that code, one must understand that innovations of this era are unlike anything we have ever seen before.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. To begin cracking that code, one must understand that innovations of this era are unlike anything we have ever seen before.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. To begin cracking that code, one must understand that innovations of this era are unlike anything we have ever seen before.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

Others are being disrupted. Reviews, social media, mobile devices and so on mean that the quantity of information customers have on products, services, support issues, and ethical behavior makes them agile than the companies who serve them. And it’s a good thing, since their current business model is facing massive disruption.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn . mgriffin_uk . +44 44 (0) 7957 456194. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn .