Forbes magazine has published an annual ranking of the most innovative companies in the world that have a significant impact on the industry. The Corporation's Steve Jobs takes pride in its fifth place.
I must say that in recent years, Apple has received many awards and achievements, thanks to the success in the technical industry, so the front-runners in the list Forbs unlikely that someone will cause surprise. But her rival for the operating system market, the company Microsoft, has put a serious position and is located at 86 place.
Developer of the same name tops the list of CRM-Salesforce.com, followed by the Amazon marketplace and creator of the surgical robotic da Vinci Intuitive Surgical. Google got a modest seventh place. Also worth noting: Nintendo (20th place), PepsiCo (50 seats) and Adobe Systems (54th place).
A list of the most innovative companies in 2011, according to Forbs:
1. Salesforce.com
2. Amazon.com
3. Intuitive Surgical
4. Tencent Holdings
5. Apple
6. Hindustan Unilever
7. Google
8. Natura Cosméticos
9. Bharat Heavy Electricals
10. Monsanto
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20. Nintendo
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54. Adobe Systems
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56. HTC Corp
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77. Oracle
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84. Intuit
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86. Microsoft
Interestingly, the publication ranked the company is not for achievements in business, a for an innovative approach, which consists of many factors. The full version of the list can be found here.
