Problem 1: What did immelt mean by the digitization of the industrial world and the industrial internet? What are the four central elements of the industrial internet?
Problem 2: What were the three alternatives GE had for developing the hardware and software capabilities to become a digital firm?
Problem 3: Which option for developing its digital capabilities did GE choose and why?
Problem 4: Why did GE want to treat analytics as a company expertise just as it had always treated material science?
Problem 5: What example did immelt use to illustrate the value of digital knowledge to GE customers?
Problem 6: What did immelt mean when he said GE would become a platform and app company?
Problem 7: Why did immelt believe GE needed to hire thousand of new people to achieve its goals of becoming a digital firm?
Problem 8: What is the culture of simplification that immelt believed was needed at GE?