Case Study: General Electric (GE) achieves high-velocity collaboration and productivity gains with Office 365

GE Leads the Way to the Digital Industrial Age with a Modern Workplace Culture

General Electric (GE), a 300,000‑employee industrial leader, set out to become a “digital industrial” company by outfitting engines, turbines, and medical devices with sensors and software and by empowering its global workforce to turn real‑time machine data into action. The challenge was to give employees secure, interoperable, and easy‑to‑use tools that speed collaboration, reduce friction in daily work, and scale across devices and generations of workers.

GE standardized on Microsoft Office 365, Windows 10 Enterprise, Teams, Yammer, Skype for Business, and Office 365 ProPlus, moved to a cloud delivery model, and modernized device provisioning and patching. The result is faster, high‑velocity collaboration and simpler onboarding, measurable productivity gains across the 300,000‑person workforce, and layered security that protects data while enabling employees to solve complex industrial and customer challenges.

General Electric

Jeff Monaco

Chief Technology Officer – Digital Workplace Technology