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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. Don’t outsource the hard rigor of transformation – insource it by getting smarter, faster, and more creative.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. To further shift the culture, Dirk Bowman made a commitment that nobody would lose his or her job due to Lean, but that everybody''s job would change every day.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. And we ‘insourced’ the recruiting activity, hiring recruiters who knew where our target candidates hung out and what appealed to them. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind.