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Larry Biagini, General Electric
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Larry Biagini, CTO of General Electric, is responsible
for driving the technology direction of the Fairfield,
Conn.-based corporate giant, which operates
businesses spanning appliances and medical systems
to media. Biagini controls the company's technology
stack, which drives the products and services used
within GE. He has introduced collaboration tools,
giving GE a variety of ways to communicate with its
employees, customers, and suppliers. He works with
CTOs at individual GE business units to cut costs
across the enterprise, driving VPN implementations to
replace costly private lines and using mainframe Linux
to consolidate servers and applications.
"The opportunities new technology will offer business
[are] going to continue to grow in ways that we can't even imagine," Biagini
says. "The key ... is to know when to adopt a technology and how to get the
most benefit out of it as early as possible."
"These are tough economic conditions, and I think that we are learning a
valuable lesson about technology," Biagini says. "During the dot-com bubble,
companies bought anything that smelled like the latest and greatest, only to
find out that all they were buying was technology, not solutions to business
problems. After the bubble, I see strict emphasis on the business value that a
given technology will produce."
-- E.E.
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