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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 to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics.

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New York City's Culture Will Shape the Next Tech Sector

Harvard Business Review

We believe that when this incredible professional diversity collides with software engineering talent, you have the recipe for breakthrough innovation. Infor has already benefitted by tapping this local talent pool is our in-house creative agency, Hook & Loop, which helps us design software that is intuitive and easy-to-use.

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A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users.

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How to Manage a Team of All-Stars

Harvard Business Review

The best software developer at Apple, for example, writes nine times more useable code each day than the average software engineer in Silicon Valley. When the US Government located Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, it didn’t assemble a “balanced team” of soldiers to take him out.