GE Innovation Lab: FirstBuild
The Harvard Business Review website noted that large traditional organizations now struggling to adapt to the fast-paced, risk-filled digital age would do well to consider FirstBuild, an experiment at GE Appliances that is showing real promise. FirstBuild is an open community of industrial designers, scientists, engineers, students, and amateur tinkerers working alongside FirstBuild employees to design, build, and sell innovative home appliances. As a community, FirstBuild pursues open source innovation, in contrast with the proprietary IP pursued by GE Appliances and other large consumer product companies.
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