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2016 predictions

The Big Picture: Here’s What GE Will Look Like in 2016

February 01, 2016
GE released its fourth-quarter results two weeks ago, capping a pivotal year when the company sold much of its lending business and embraced software to become the world’s largest digital-industrial company. The company also improved its operations, growing revenue at a faster clip than peers and fattening margins.
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LEDs

Say Goodbye, Say Hello: GE Stops Making CFLs, Says Go, Go, Go To LEDs

February 01, 2016
GE is breaking up with compact fluorescent lamps.
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Electrification Software

Are You Ready For Digital Oil?

Tomas Kellner
January 28, 2016
GE Oil & Gas became the latest GE business to launch its own digital division. The unit launched a pilot project with BP to help the energy company reduce unplanned downtime by deploying software and analytics, and partnered with “subsurface” software company Paradigm.
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Africa

Mind The Gap: Here’s How You Take On A Power Crisis The Size Of A Continent

Tomas Kellner
January 06, 2016
One easy way to see Africa’s power problem is by looking at a picture of the Earth from space at night. While other inhabited regions of the world glow and sparkle like jewels in a black velvet display case, Africa remains largely dark. That’s because the continent’s 1.1 billion inhabitants have at their disposal just 185 gigawatts (GW) of installed power-generation capacity. The United States, by comparison, can draw on 1,000 GW for 300 million people.
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Industrial Internet

The Connector: Meet Joe Salvo, the Man from Digital Future

January 04, 2016
When Joe Salvo bought his house in Schenectady, New York, in 1986, he purchased a piece of history. GE built it in 1905, not long after Thomas Edison opened the company’s research labs in the city and moved manufacturing plants here. The house was intended to be the model electric home of the future. It came fully wired, with light bulbs in every room, an electric sewing machine, a toaster, an electric stove and even an electric water heater. It was the 1905 version of the self-driving car.
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best of 2015

2015 In Review: GE’s Digital Industrial Revolution

Tomas Kellner
Timothy Cheng
December 30, 2015
GE has been around for more than a century, but few years in its history have been as important for the future of the company as the one that’s just ending. GE started transforming itself into the world’s largest digital industrial company by selling GE Capital assets valued at more than $100 billion.
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Cloud

Financial Times: GE Healthcare To Improve Organic Growth With Digital Technology

Timothy Cheng
December 22, 2015

John Flannery, GE Healthcare’s chief executive officer, told the Financial Times that when he started his job last year, he “didn’t come with a mandate to do big M&A.” Instead, Flannery, who held many different GE jobs during his 27 years with the company, said he would be focusing on organic growth.

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Big Data

Going Number One Or Zero: This Japanese Company Just Brought The Binary Code Into the Bathroom

December 22, 2015
Building a house or renovating an apartment typically involves brute force and noise, frayed nerves, busted budgets and, sometimes, poisoned relations with neighbors. But homeowners in Japan can now rely on software-enabled technology to take out some of the pain.
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Big Data

Meet Your Digital Twin: Internet For The Body Is Coming And These Engineers Are Building It

Tomas Kellner
December 18, 2015
Let’s be honest: November isn’t the best time to visit Helsinki. But the gloom that envelops the Finnish capital every autumn didn’t stop some 15,000 visitors from descending on Slush, one of the world’s largest tech gatherings, which drew 1,700 startups this year as well as Google, Nokia and GE.
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Industrial Internet

Business Insider: GE CEO Says Let’s End The Debate Over Whether We Are In A Tech Bubble

Tomas Kellner
December 09, 2015
In his piece in Business Insider, Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO, called for an end to the debate over whether we were in a tech bubble. “I believe that this is shortsighted and rooted in the belief that at some point the tech industry must undergo the same unfortunate ‘burst’ as in 2000,” Immelt wrote.
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