Kevin Nolan, CTO of GE Appliances, spent 28 years at General Electric, "trying to do innovation," as he puts it, before giving up. He finally accepted he couldn't do it, internally at least. At one point, Nolan watched how refrigerators were made and assembled at GE's Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky and realized that the process of designing and building refrigerators today was not much different from the days of the icebox. He wanted to infuse the company with some of the innovative tech...
Kevin Nolan, CTO of GE Appliances, spent 28 years at General Electric, "trying to do innovation," as he puts it, before giving up. He finally accepted he couldn't do it, internally at least. At one point, Nolan watched how refrigerators were made and assembled at GE's Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky and realized that the process of designing and building refrigerators today was not much different from the days of the icebox. He wanted to infuse the company with some of the innovative tech...
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