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"...if you look at any company that you would say has transformed itself over the last 30 years or so, it is GE. In every case, they achieved the transformation by setting up or acquiring new disruptive business units and selling off or shutting down ones that had reached the end of their lives. In no case did they transform the business model of an existing business unit to cause it to catch the disruptive wave.
"So it's like in biological evolution, you and I as individuals will just die, and the mutants will take over. A corporation can evolve, really quite effectively if you know how to do it. It's just the individual business units have a hard time."
From the first part of a Gartner Group interview with the author of The Innovator's Solution. (Linkage via Dave Pollard, who provides good, in-depth commentary on the piece.)
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