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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015. GE is an ideal laboratory for applying Lean practices because of its scale,” Ries says.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

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