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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. GE is now approaching $1 billion in new revenue annually from their expanded software and data activities.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. Today, there’s a greater need for software engineers because cars are computers more than anything else.” Gerald Lord/Getty Images.

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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

In fact, among the top 10 companies of the Forbes Most Innovative Companies list (since 2011 when we started the list), more than 80% of the most innovative companies compete in industries in the top right quadrant. In other words, if you are in a high uncertainty industry, you must excel at innovation…or die.