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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. 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.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. Plus, the rise of mobile phones is being blamed for a new spike in U.S. traffic deaths.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. The ED-CELL team developed software to provide the stream of RFID data to frontline staff in a usable manner. The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g.,

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

Its software “learned” how to think by processing vast quantities of data. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. In the coming year, we will also begin questioning the ethics of how algorithms can be used, and we’ll scrutinize the tendency of some algorithms to go awry.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic. I haven''t actually seen Prof. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago.

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