Author
Abstract
GE is the ninth biggest and second most profitable company in the world. The company was revitalised by inducing self-confidence and adopting tools like workout and Change Acceleration Process (CAP) to multiple business units in different industries. GE was the first corporate to systematically apply a number of management concepts. Its success is rooted in its movements of ideas and management talent around the group. The strong performance of GE is its successful corporate portfolio management. Many of the large business units of GE differentiate their output with high quality while they simultaneously maintain low per unit cost operation. It adopted three company-wide growth initiatives: globalisation, services and Six Sigma Quality. The intensity of globalisation is reflected from the fact that GE revenues have grown 6% per year in the U.S. and 17% globally. GE dramatically adopted Six Sigma Quality in its products, which radically changed overall measures of operating efficiency. GE wants its every product and service designed for six sigma. Six Sigma for GE is embedding quality thinking, process thinking across every level and in every operation around the globe. Jack Welch, CEO of GE restructured the company through integration, diversification, mergers, strategic alliances and retrenchment. He imposed higher productivity at all levels, trimmed inventories using just-in-time technique and dismantled bureaucracies. Under him, GE is engrossed in stretch and quality performance. The future strategies of GE are globalisation, the move from manufacturing to services and the internet.
Suggested Citation
P.R. Bhatt, 2000.
"General Electric: Lessons in Strategic Management,"
Vision, , vol. 4(2), pages 50-57, July.
Handle:
RePEc:sae:vision:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:50-57
DOI: 10.1177/097226290000400207
Download full text from publisher
Corrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:vision:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:50-57. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through
the various RePEc services.