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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Next came the decision to bring manufacturing of some of Apple’s smaller flagship lines such as the iBook back to the US and then finally the announcement that in 2014 Apple was switching all of its $10 Billion annual memory and processor orders to Samsung’s arch competitor TSMC. __. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn .

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Would the traditional host organization reject the new software center as an alien entity? Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. They cycled through several product iterations. They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

In 2014, Gartner Research, creator of the Hype Cycle for the Internet of Things, predicted that a “typical family home” could hold up to 500 smart objects by 2022. Software, in contrast, is incredibly fast. In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) appeared in an IBM investor briefing.