La decisión se adoptó por unanimidad de los miembros del consejo, que desde hace semanas insisten en que la oferta de General Electric es la mejor para sus intereses.

Patrick Kron, CEO de Alstom.

El Consejo de Administrador del industrial francés Alstom aceptó hoy la oferta de fusión de sus actividades energéticas con el gigante estadounidense General Electric, con las condiciones impuestas por el gobierno galo.

The 2014 Big M Conference is taking place in Detroit this week, and how fitting that the future of manufacturing takes center stage in the Motor City. It was here where the modern assembly line was inspired and defined-a model for manufacturing growth and productivity.

Today, manufacturing is being redefined by a new line-a digital thread-which promises to increase the power of productivity well beyond what anyone can even imagine.

GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“Workout,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on. While Lean and Six Sigma continue to be important, the company is constantly looking for new ways to get better and faster for their customers.

When a massive heat wave hit Buenos Aires last December, overworked ACs triggered weeks of blackouts that rolled over the metropolis of 2.8 million. The heat left many residents in the dark – literally and figuratively. People had little visibility on which neighborhoods would be affected and for how long. “The uncertainty and the lack of information were almost as depressing as the blackouts,” Celeste Acosta, a local community manager, told Smart Planet.