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Was there really at GE much collaboration and sharing of competence between these divisions? Say in the examples you mention of jet engines and medical, or other power electronics and the power electronics of medical, or other RF and the RF of medical, etc?

I ask because at one of the others that I am familiar with, there was also this aura - mystique - of broad field competence but in practice and internally, nobody talked to anybody (and management somehow loved getting their noses into everyone's attempts at communicating with anyone.) It was very difficult to even figure out who was working on what.

We often hear of synergies but there are clear ways to NOT get technical synergies. (While financial synergies did exist - until people fixated on "pure plays".)