The Angry Birds of B2B
Friday, February 10, 2012 | Post a Comment Then I started to notice something strange: really smart digital marketers who boldly identified themselves as ‘gamers.’ More surprising: these marketers not only liked playing games personally, but believed gaming presented very real commercial opportunities.
More Alumni Conference Highlights!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | Post a Comment Earlier in the week you heard from our very own ECLP alumni about their favorite memories and experiences from past ECLP conferences. Here are a few more that make me excited to be a part of ECLP and ready for the best Global ECLP Conference yet - Argentina, here we come!
“I remember joining my first (or second) conference in Crotonville 10 years ago. Members of Jeff Immelt’s Senior Leadership Team were present to talk to us. At the same time there was a Business Management Course, which we met in the “White house” during the evenings, and they could not quite believe how lucky we were to get this treatment so early in our GE career. I am not sure I understood it at the time - I do now! Have fun in BA - it is a great city!”
Meet the ECLP Argentina Conference Agenda Team
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | Post a Comment 
Now that you have been reading about the upcoming Global ECLP Conference in Argentina, let’s take a sneak peak at how the ECLP Buenos Aires Conference Agenda Team (Kay Kwok, ECLP Water ‘13, Matthew Stein, ECLP Capital ‘13, and Guilherme Delaroli, ECLP Healthcare ‘12) has put together a great speaker schedule.
Making Memories: Conference Highlights from ECLP Alumni!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | Post a Comment The GE ECLP Conference in Buenos Aires is three weeks away and I couldn’t be more excited. After all, this is my first Global Conference as part of ECLP, and I will be reconnecting with colleagues that I haven’t seen since I started the program back in July of 2011.
Aside from the opportunity to sharpen my skills with Credit Boot Camp, Leadership Training, and Sales Force Effectiveness workshops, I’m also curious as to what to expect, how to prepare, and what the most inspiring part of the journey to Argentina will prove to be.
The ‘Big Brother’ Perception: Experience at an Industry Conference
Thursday, February 2, 2012 | Post a Comment 
If you associated ‘Big Brother’ with the popular reality televisions show, sorry to disappoint you. This context is rather different, and refers to an interesting perception of GE that I experienced at an industry conference where I recently had an opportunity to present. This Conference on ‘Digital Manufacturing’ was organized by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), the leading industry forum in India. It focused on the application of digital technologies in manufacturing organizations. I was very excited to represent GE Intelligent Platforms (GE IP), and present our story on ‘Operational Excellence – The Digital Way’.
Rotation Review: December 2011
Monday, January 30, 2012 | Post a Comment 
December was a great month on-Program for me, as well as for my team. Personally, I accomplished a lot within the job function, with the FB&A team, with ECLP initiatives, and I still had time for a great vacation during the last week of the month/year (gotta love Vail, CO)! Overall our team made great strides in building out many of the marketing initiatives that are underway, and from a sales perspective, budgets were met (some at the 11th hour, of course).
As the managers and leaders of the different regions across the country evaluate partial-year performance of the FB&A vertical (due to the formation of the group in mid-2011), a clear focus is on creating budgets, understanding GE Capital’s current portfolio of
International Recruiting at ECLP
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | Post a Comment In just about a month’s time, the GE ECLP Classes of 2012 and 2013 from all GE businesses will travel from all over the world to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the semi-annual global ECLP conference. But that’s not the only exciting thing happening in the program between now and then. GE ECLP international recruiting is in full-effect, and we are excited to share with our readers the upcoming events surrounding this initiative. I sat down with Chris Thomas, Global Recruiting Director for ECLP, last week who shared his insights and best practices for prospective international ECLPs.
Looking Back On An Unforgettable 2011 and Excited for 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012 | Post a Comment 
2011 was a great year. I finished my MBA (in China), started ECLP, and got married. A new degree, 2 life changes and a trip around the world… it was awesome. Just a few weeks ago when we said goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012, I thought to myself, how could this year possibly compare to 2011. And then I remembered, I’m in ECLP. That means, this year, I will change jobs two times – once in March and once in October. I will make at least one international trip with our two week training and conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and fingers crossed our GE ECLP October 2012 conference is in a similar, sweet, international location. So right off the bat, this sounds like it could a pretty good year, but let’s dig into it a bit more.
Global GiveBack, Is Back!
Friday, January 20, 2012 | Post a Comment Last year, Women in Commercial Leadership Programs (WICLP), a hub of the GE Women’s Network, launched the ECLP Global GiveBack Initiative.
The program encouraged ECLPs from all GE businesses around the globe to get involved in giving back to their communites with time and monetary contributionsIt was a unique way to engage participants across the world and enabled them to customize their participation based on cultural and local needs.
Putting Innovation Theory into Practice
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 | Post a Comment The buzzword in my universe at the moment seems to be innovation. I attended a conference of 80+ companies last week on encouraging innovation in the rail sector. The previous week I was presented an excellent framework for Commercial innovation at our annual Transportation marketing staff workout. Governments almost daily publish worthy reports how more innovation will solve their economic woes…or at least in Europe anyway! It got me thinking what do we mean really by innovation and why does it seem to be so difficult and require constant pressure.
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