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How GE Is disrupting itself
In May 2009, General Electric announced that over the next six years it would spend $3 billion to create at least 100 health-care innovations that would substantially lower costs, increase access, and improve quality. Two products it highlighted at the time--a $1,000 handheld electrocardiogram device and a portable, PC-based ultrasound machine that sells for as little as $15,000--are revolutionary, and not just because of their small size and low price. They're also extraordinary because they originally were developed for markets in emerging economies (the ECG device for rural India and the ultrasound machine for rural China) and are now being sold in the United States, where they're pioneering new uses for such machines. We call the process used to develop the two machines and take them global reverse innovation, because it's the opposite of the glocalization approach that many industrial-goods manufacturers based in rich countries have employed for decades. Almost all the people and resources dedicated to reverse innovation efforts must be based and managed in the local market. These local growth teams need to have P&L responsibility; the power to decide which products to develop for their markets and how to make, sell, and service them; and the right to draw from the company's global resources. Once products have proven themselves in emerging markets, they must be taken global, which may involve pioneering radically new applications, establishing lower price points, and even using the innovations to cannibalize higher-margin products in rich countries. All of those approaches are antithetical to the glocalization model. This article aims to share what GE has learned in trying to overcome that conflict..Printed journal
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Penerbit | Harvard Business School Publishing., |
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Subjek | Production planning Electronics industry Case studies Globalization Market strategy |
ISBN/ISSN | 178012 |
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