GE Evolves for the Digital Industrial Era

GE set its vision to lead the digital industrial era. CEO Jeff Immelt explained that, “the investments we are making to become a Digital Industrial [company] and in additive manufacturing will unleash productivity and create new models of growth.” GE’s success with the LEAP jet engines that power the Boeing 737 MAX plane included 3D printed components. But this early success in digital industrial needed to be replicated not only across their engineering function but company-wide, including human resources, innovation, training and development, all across its eight primary segments. This would require not only sweeping changes in GE’s technology and processes but a cultural transformation of the company itself through its organization-wide systems thinking initiative.