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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Change management certainly tested us. I just didn’t know in what ways.

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The Financial Industry Needs to Start Planning for the Next 50 Years, Not the Next Five

Harvard Business Review

It’s far from the only case of a failure to embrace a more digital approach; the larger shift to digital is changing the way every industry operates. Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal. Some industries, like photography and media, were impacted earlier.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

India, with its 462 million internet users , has a digital economy representing arguably the greatest market potential for global players ; however, it operates in multiple languages and multiple infrastructure challenges, despite the government having taken sweeping actions that affect the digital market.