Food for thought...
http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2011/
Ed
Lots of US companies... reassuring to see good ol' Uncle Sam is continuing to innovate, naturally with tech being in the frontline.
ARM is in there too... they've done well in the past year
Really? Is there no more innovation out there in the world than Apple, Twitter & Facebook? You know we're all screwed if that's true right?
No mention of methodology, but I suspect it's a bunch of new york advertising twits sitting around, sticking coke in their faces and deciding what companies they'd quite like to be associated with.
Last year's top three were Apple, Facebook & Amazon. So, what did Twitter do in the last 12 month's to propel then from a lowly 50 spot to suddenly become one of the top 3 more innovative companies on the planet? I'll accept Apple being up their for the fondle-slab (or more accurately, the innovative work they did working the media up in to such a frenzy that they now pee their pants slightly every time they here anything starting with the letter I).
Facebook & twitter though? What were the innovations of the last 12 months that put every other business on the planet to shame? Err... facebook dicked with it's privacy settings again... a bit.
Quote from: Rooftop on February 23, 2011, 09:22:22 AM
Facebook & twitter though? What were the innovations of the last 12 months that put every other business on the planet to shame? Err... facebook dicked with it's privacy settings again... a bit.
Exactly what i thought, how has twitter become more innovative over the last 12 months? So much so it gets the number 2 spot, is the rest of the world going backwards ::)
When you look down that list, it is clear that the issue is the mis-use of the word 'innovative'.
It is a list of 'successful' companies - not 'innovative' companies - you can be either without being the other.
Some of the companies on that list wouldn't know innovation if it ran then down in pig-sh*t powered auto-pilot hover car.
Quote from: 4Eyes on February 23, 2011, 12:40:19 PM
pig-sh*t powered auto-pilot hover car.
Driving your car round corners on two wheels and steering with you knees?
When these lists are made it's like they're scored from column inches rather than when they first started becoming big.
thank g*d someone said that. I wrote a reply questioning whether they understood what innovation meant this morning, and then thought I had probably woken up grumpy and shouldn't hit the post button.
Quotehad probably woken up grumpy and shouldn't hit the post button.
On behalf of Peter, Mick and Myself ... welcome to our world :)
not *that* grumpy :o
QuoteLots of US companies... reassuring to see good ol' Uncle Sam is continuing to innovate, naturally with tech being in the frontline.
Yes, it's uncanny how many US companies were chosen by a US-based magazine as the most innovative in the world.
AFAIK, we Americans are the only country that holds sports "world championships" and invites no other countries except poor 'ol Canada.
I'd be curious if you used Jim Collins methods and paired each company with another one with similar metrics (market cap, revenue, number of employees, age) and plotted those named against those not named by FC, what would you find?