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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations. Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room. and compete successfully.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1980s, for example, at least some partners — Bob Waterman, co-author of In Search of Excellence , among them — counseled gradual, quiet expansion, this to maintain the top-flight quality of the consultancy's people and its work. Others decried what they saw as a lowering of hiring standards. "I