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clearly a Blue company: it scores extremely high in prot and speed;
while the entire industry tends to score very well on prot, GE outper-
forms its peers in terms of speed.
It is interesting to note that Leapfrog Enterprises and General Electric
score extremely well in one quadrant, while Sirius Satellite Radio and
Wal-Mart show great performance in two quadrants. Comparing the
pictures, it is clear that superb performance in one quadrant is associ-
ated with mediocre performance in the diagonally opposite quadrant.
This is not a coincidence. I have examined the CVF proles ...