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Catching a unicorn—recruiting for jobs of the future

October 19, 2016
Seeking: Software developer with an entrepreneurial spirit. Must have an insatiable desire to collaborate with clients. You will lead projects in new markets, and work with big, dirty datasets to create digital solutions to problems both known and as yet unimagined. Only those with a highly developed sense of curiosity will be considered. Awareness of Predix an advantage. Think you’re the full stack? Apply in code to the world’s biggest digital industrial company.
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How a breast cancer screening saved my life

October 17, 2016
A few months shy of her 25th birthday, Sydneysider Yvette Luciano was offered her dream job at Sony Music and was on track to fulfil her vision of starting her own music touring and management company. To top things off, that same year she met the love of her life.
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Reinventing GE culture: global new directions

October 13, 2016
GE is famous for its constant reinvention, which explains why it's often referred to as a 124-year-old startup. Yet right now the company is arguably going through the greatest, fastest, and most exciting period of transformation in its history: to become the digital industrial company that transforms the world.
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Mindful meetings: How to bring your best leadership brain to work

October 11, 2016
Did you leave your last work meeting smiling? Knowing that you’d brought your best thinking to the table? Did you take away insights from interaction with your colleagues? Meetings are a microcosm of corporate life and a barometer of an organisation’s vitality.
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What’s up, Doc? The robot that keeps doctors in the know

October 10, 2016
In an operating theatre of a major metropolitan teaching hospital at the bottom of the world, specialist anaesthetist Dr Savas Totonidis leans under lights on the empty operating table and quips about his job, “In a hospital like this you can’t just knock people out and wake them up again. We all have extra responsibilities.”
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GE, Qantas—mining data for gold in Texas

October 07, 2016
Qantas and GE recently accelerated a decades-long, uplifting relationship into the digital-industrial cloud; the Flight Efficiency Services agreement, signed in September 2015, is already delivering on GE’s promise to increase the airline’s operational flexibility and fuel efficiency while reducing its carbon emissions.
This week marks the opening of a new frontier in the companies’ innovative alliance as Qantas becomes the launch partner in GE’s latest collaboration centre in Austin, Texas.
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GE global vice chair Beth Comstock joins Innovation Australia board

September 21, 2016
Beth Comstock, described by Eric Ries, the Lean Startup guru, as GE’s “secret weapon” is bringing her skills at identifying trends, incubating innovations, forming fast-thinking teams and scaling new models for business to Australia.
She’s the first female vice chair of GE, and is among four other vice chairs advising Jeff Immelt, GE’s global CEO and President. She’s on the board of Nike, and now she’s on our board—the Federal Government’s Innovation Australia board.
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Why GE is adding mindfulness to the mix

September 19, 2016
It seems like a turbo-charged irony that when Debbie Jeremiah was the CFO of Ferrari UK, it was yoga and meditation that helped her to stay on track. In fact, she regarded mindfulness and fast cars as fine friends.
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How do you make the world’s biggest trucks even better?

September 18, 2016
Between 2012 and 2014 Rio Tinto’s fleet of 58 Komatsu autonomous trucks featuring GE electric propulsion systems drove to the moon and back five times—that is, they travelled almost 4 million kilometres—and moved the equivalent of 3,550 Sydney Harbour Bridges (200 million tonnes of iron ore).
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How GEeks go for #CC9900 was cracked!

September 16, 2016
More than 1,000 competitors—the world’s best software engineers, developers, data scientists and solutions architects—from  more than 20 countries, stepped up to the starting block for the first leg of GEeks go for #CC9900, GE’s fiendish programming challenge.
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