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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

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. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. ” It’s working.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare. The number of people affected by an innovation.

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