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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar. The $1 billion plan envisioned 11 new product platforms in six different manufacturing sites. It needed to invest in new development labs and to co-locate teams. The development team was extremely cohesive.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Depending on who your customers are, you may find yourself forced to make some kind of plan to hire these individuals – who are, almost by definition, going to be a drain on your company.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Would the traditional host organization reject the new software center as an alien entity?