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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market. APIs and platforms reduces the time-to-market for products and services.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” ” Hiring for Growth. We grew faster than we thought we would.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. In their pursuit of margin, marketers sought market power even to the point of monopoly, requiring antitrust laws to cry stop at the last moment of the end game.

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