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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. Having the team hear customer feedback firsthand was a big change, especially for the engineers. The feedback was hard for the engineers to hear, but it made a huge impact on them. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.”

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. As I described in a previous post , GE is working with Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement. They have branded it “FastWorks.”