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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

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. How do we become much more open and collaborative with the customer base?

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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. You can still find many an alum of McKinsey (or Bain & Co., And what risks did he run?