Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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