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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Well not anymore, GE recently in its 3 rd quarter review revealed its chronic cash position. In reality, its free cash flow can’t pay its obligations.

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Smart Service Canvas

ITONICS

Due to having an experience of running such workshops, we managed to develop the canvas and compiled extensive guidelines, use cases, and success stories that can serve as innovation initiatives in practice as a ready-to-use toolkit that is easy to adopt. . Smart Service Canvas workshops. Allmendinger, G. and Lombreglia, R. Bandyopadhyay, D.

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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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To Predict the Trajectory of the Internet of Things, Look to the Software Industry

Harvard Business Review

With over 50 billion connected devices expected by 2020, the Internet of things (IoT) is poised to have a major impact. But by mapping the relationships between platform providers and component providers, I found parallels to the emergence of the software industry, which suggest five critical lessons: 1. Watch for fragmentation.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Because of problems such as pollution, climate change and loss of productivity due to long commute times, consumer attitudes towards car ownership and use are changing. Part of this misalignment is due to reporting relations. Another part is due to clarity of mission. But I think that the problem runs deeper.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Because of problems such as pollution, climate change and loss of productivity due to long commute times, consumer attitudes towards car ownership and use are changing. Part of this misalignment is due to reporting relations. Another part is due to clarity of mission. But I think that the problem runs deeper.

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How the Internet of Things Changes Everything

Harvard Business Review

It''s all thanks to the Internet of Things. If you are not familiar with the term, the Internet of Things refers to a dramatic development in the internet''s function: the fact that, even more than among people, it now enables communication among physical objects.