1. Uday Tennety Director, Design Center and Innovation June 2015
GE Software
Uday Tennety
Director, Design Center and Innovation
June 2015
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2. The Design Center is a collaboration space where cross-functional teams meet with their end users to co-create, discover, and test innovative solutions.
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3. These innovative solutions fulfill the desired outcomes developed in the planning and design phase of the product development process we follow.
Plan
Design
Build
Test
Produce

4. To achieve the desired outcomes, we bring together the right PEOPLE, the collaborative SPACE, proven PROCESSES and integrated TOOLS.
Innovative Outcomes
People
Processes
Tools
Space
The Design Center leverages a powerful combination of physical space, people, processes, and tools to co-create new software outcomes at remarkable speed
The Design Center is strategically located close to Silicon Valley and the rapidly growing tech space in San Francisco to draw world-caliber talent across GE’s vertical businesses.
- Conducted 300+ WorkOuts in the last one year with each WorkOut typically spanning 1-3 days (sometimes more depending on the business problems)
- Housed in the GE Software Center, the Design Center is uniquely able to draw expertise across major industries Aviation, Healthcare, Power & Water, Oil & Gas, and Transportation and from it’s talent pool of SMEs, solution architects, Data Scientists, UX, and cybersecurity experts.
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5. Our collaborative SPACE is a dynamic environment uniquely designed to support processes and collaboration that lead to remarkable outcomes.

6. GE Business Domain & SMEs
We have the right PEOPLE. GE Software has over 1200 talented employees from which we pool a team of specialists (Data Science, Cyber Security, Solutions Architecture, User Experience, Software Engineering, and Facilitation) to collaborate with the customer and produce tangible outcomes.
GE Business Domain & SMEs
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Customer and
End Users
Tangible Outcomes

7. Using our proven PROCESSES, you benefit…
WorkOuts, rooted in Design Thinking principles leverage collective expertise
Team building exercises spur creative confidence and team collaboration
Customer environment re-creation, user research and interviews create customer empathy and keep the focus on the end users
Designed activities engender ideation, create real value and solve business problems
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8. Our integrated TOOLS are part of the process - combined, complementary, and easily at your disposal.
Use our 360-degree cameras to allow the team to visualize the end-user environment
Prepare for your workout by uploading your 360-degree video or your artifacts to a dedicated collaboration site BEFORE you get here
DURING your session, use familiar tools from post-its to sketch pads, or annotate on top of your video/artifacts displayed on the monitors
Collaborate with others using the integrated audio and video conferencing
Save your work and moments on the web collaboration tool by taking snapshots and video recording
Ideate or prototype further with a collection of digital tools to wireframe or format your work
Continue your collaboration AFTER your workout using the web collaboration tool
AFTER
DURING
BEFORE
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9. Thank you To schedule a WorkOut or to learn more, visit us at the GE Design Center or contact us

10. AT GE Every day The world WE PUT OUR Work better IDEAS TO WORK
Taking them off the paper
Out of the lab and into
The world
Engineers scientists teachers leaders and doers
All sharing a belief
That things can be made
To work better
It’s why we get up in the morning
Every day
It’s why we come to work
To build cure power
And move the world
We are at work
Making the world
Work better
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