In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously asserted, “Software is eating the world.” Jeff Immelt, CEO and chairman of General Electric (GE) took that to heart. He has made no bones about the fact that all industrial companies will have to become software and analytics companies.
As a result, GE has begun looking to Web 2.0 companies like Google and Amazon for inspiration.
“The digital transformation at GE has helped anticipate the needs of a technology-driven society, and it has been both rapid and dramatic,” Colin Parris, vice president for Software Research, GE Global Research, wrote last week.
