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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

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. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. The future looked bright.

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In Defense of Routine Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. How has this strategy worked?

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Why Dominating Your Category Can Be a Flawed Strategy

Harvard Business Review

” That advice served GE well in shaping its portfolio of businesses and its strategy for many years, but it’s not clear to us that it is as relevant any more. It may, in fact, be a dangerous strategy in today’s business environment. They have pricing, product, brand, portfolio and corporate strategies.