GE Atlanta Is The Problem
GE Power used to be an expert Steam Turbine, Gas Turbine, and turbine service industrial engineering and manufacturing powerhouse where the expertise and management resided in the product departments where the experts were. These were also low cost, highly integrated centers in company owned property with 1950s buildings that were all paid off decades ago. Now GE Power is in high cost Atlanta in expensive rental buildings with bloated management with little knowledge of the business or technical engineering, manufacturing, or turbine service expertise. It is basically a call center filled with unskilled workers who answer the phone and don't know much about turbines and are not connected to the product departments.
This is because GE management is filled with predominantly Six Sigma political hacks than experienced turbine technology and business experts who know the business. This is why GE, once one of the best technology giants is failing. You can't replace people who know what they are doing with people who don't.
Two decades of bad management since around 1998 have destroyed the vitality of the business and put GE Power as well as the corporation itself in a downward spiral that many seriously wonder
GE is a mess with most of their good cash flow businesses sold off for bogus stock buy backs.
How can they recover now that their cash flow is gone, and they have become bloated with ineffective overhead like the Atlanta operation that has replaced the hard core engineering and manufacturing business that was once GE Power.