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Multiplying success: How AI agents helped GE execute a historic transformation

GE and an AI-powered transformation platform had already delivered success together — now, they were jointly ready to take on the next challenge. GE would split into three independent public companies. GE especially valued the platform’s experience managing large-scale deal transactions. A key tenet of GE’s approach was to empower 95% of its experienced and trusted internal teams to focus on running the business. Simultaneously, the other 5% would work with the AI agents, leveraging its expertise to execute multiple spin-offs with minimal disruption. The teams had to operate across more than 90 countries and enable each business to thrive as an independent public company from Day One.

The scale and scope of the separations was immense, with over 40,000 execution actions across workstreams focused on managing regulatory compliance, retaining talent, maintaining customer and supplier relationships, separating IT infrastructure and optimizing financial and tax implications — just to name a few. Each new company represented a significant enterprise that required its own strategies.

Three companies, three distinct purposes: GE HealthCare, GE Aerospace and GE Vernova

GE’s new companies would embark on a unique mission within each industry.

  ■ GE HealthCare: Driven to create a world where healthcare has no limits by digitizing healthcare, driving productivity to improve the lives of patients and creating meaningful efficiencies for providers, health systems and researchers around the world.
  ■ GE Aerospace: Poised to invent the future of flight, lift people up and bring them home safely as a global aerospace leader in attractive propulsion, services and systems sectors.
  ■ GE Vernova: Set to electrify the world while reducing carbon emissions, helping usher in a new era of energy that is more sustainable and innovative. 

Understanding GE’s lean operational culture, an AI-powered transformation nimbly adapted to this approach while leveraging its deals-driven ethos, turning opportunity into growth. Together, the two teams worked to establish three companies as strong independent entities — equipping them with the foundations needed to compete and thrive in their respective markets.

SITUATION

Solving a complex puzzle

AI-powered transformation supported GE with a transact-to-transform strategy — an approach rooted in a combination of rigor, continuity, and governance. The project included setting up new public companies, restructuring legal entities, and separating historically shared services such as research and development, human resources, cloud and digital infrastructure, and finance. GE's commitment to lean practices and continuous improvement was instrumental in consistently elevating project standards.

The AI-powered transformation helped manage expenses by addressing stranded costs, conducting cost assessments, and executing allocations through more than 700 transitional service agreements (TSAs) — contracts that outline temporary support services. Additionally, the team helped set up financial systems for the three new companies, enabling a strong, independent financial infrastructure for each. They also evaluated accounting decisions, performed 2,000 legal entity separations, and allocated more than $4 billion in shared assets and liabilities across all three organizations.

RESULTS

GE’s new era of innovation

The team knew rigor, agility and strong governance were key to hitting each milestone, placing a strong focus on adopting GE’s lean methodology — a hallmark of its culture. This approach emphasizes continuous improvement and increasing productivity to deliver the highest value to customers. Throughout the separations, GE’s lean approach improved efficiency and helped promote consistent quality across all functions and business units.

The entire project — which encompassed coordinating and managing more than 40,000 execution actions across 90+ countries — benefited from clear deadlines and KPIs set at the very beginning, allowing for precise progress tracking and adherence to critical performance standards. In a large separation, governance is essential, and an AI-powered transformation leveraged its worldwide professional network to help ensure that every detail was considered across workstreams and industries.

GE brought valuable insights and strategic direction to navigate the new business landscape, while the

platform’s deep global expertise in separation management helped ensure that all parties remained aligned.

Three new companies

AI-powered transformation worked with GE to strategically separate the company into three distinct entities, each focused on specific growing sectors: aerospace, healthcare, and energy. This move allows each organization to sharpen its expertise and drive innovation within its industry. The agile approach also enables each company to better serve modern customers by delivering specialized, tech-driven products and services tailored to their unique — and ever-evolving — needs.