The Top Innovative Companies
Fast Company has named The World’s Most Innovative Companies 2010. The top 50 companies were not selected by scientific process but rather by a committee that heard arguments for and against each candidate. As the editor states, “we amass and assess information on thousands of businesses, looking for creative models, far-sighted risk taking, and paradigm-busting execution.”
The top 20 most innovative companies are: (1) Facebook; (2) Amazon; (3) Apple; (4) Google; (5) Huawei–a Chinese telecom equipment provider; (6) First Solar; (7) PG&E; (8) Novartis; (9) Walmart; (10) HP; (11) Hulu; (12) Netflix; (13) Nike; (14) Intel; (15) Spotify–a European music-streaming site; (16) BYD–a Chinese car-and-battery maker; (17) Cisco Systems; (18) IBM; (19) GE; and (20) Disney.
That’s quite a variety of companies, from the “old guard”—Intel, IBM, GE, and Disney—to the “tech titans”—Amazon, Apple, and Google—to “green” companies First Solar and BYD.
Fast Company also identified the ten most innovative companies by industry, including consumer products, retail, technology, the Web, and consumer electronics.
It’s interesting to note that two-thirds of the 50 were not on last year’s list. As the chairman of HTC, ranked second in consumer electronics, said, “What you have learned is never enough.”
To read more about innovation, click on these articles:
- 3 Systematic Innovation Processes
- Making Innovation Part of Your Culture
- Innovation in the U.S.: The Bigger Picture
- Management System Innovation
- Innovation and Quality
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