Business Chief Europe Magazine October 2017 | Page 12

INSIGHT
our equipment ,” Sherry says , “ and helping our clients understand the data from that to better use our equipment than we were . We knew something was coming .
“ He ( Immelt ) realised we needed to find a way to emulate what had happened in other spheres . You had a world where , like with Uber and Apple , 2.3mn applications are growing every week on their platforms and making billions from the application economy . He understood that we had to cease acting as an intermediate between us and our clients , and to find a way to make that digital transformation ourselves . To find the next wave of productivity .”
A result of this investigation , Immelt knew that the future was about scalable platforms ; leveraging them to embrace new business models while building digital software skills and abilities , internally , to make it possible . Immelt also knew that they had to launch this project rapidly just as the software world does . This is how GE Digital was born . After hiring William Ruh from Cisco as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer , they started to create what would become Predix .
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BUILDING NEW SYSTEMS This operating software is designed by business , for business , with an open architecture making it possible for all users to develop whatever they require . “ We built it because we wanted to run applications that were specifically designed to manage physical things and not just the digital assets ; to marry digital software and intelligence
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