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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. To spread the new culture more broadly, management decided to form another cross-functional team (a "Little Big Room") to define tenets about how they would operate. General Electric Operations Strategy'

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

This ensured their commitment to the effort and created support for tough decisions—even when those decisions directly affected their own bailiwicks. All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging. Capitalize on success.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

And we ‘insourced’ the recruiting activity, hiring recruiters who knew where our target candidates hung out and what appealed to them. An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'