Businessweek Magazine has a special set of articles on innovation in business in its April 28 issue. As in the past, they identified and tanked the 50 most innovative companies worldwide. The list of companies ranked in order are as follows

01. Apple 02. Google 03. Toyota Motor 04. General Electric 05. Microsoft 06.Tata Group 07. Nintendo 08. Procter & Gamble 09. Sony 10. Nokia 11. Amazon.Com 12. IBM 13. Research In Motion 14. BMW 15. Hewlett-Packard 16. Honda Motor 17. Walt Disney

18. General Motors 19. Reliance Industries 20. Boeing 21. Goldman Sachs Group 22. 3M 23. Wal-Mart Stores 24. Target 25. Facebook 26. Samsung Electronics 27. AT&T 28. Virgin Group 29. Audi 30. Mcdonald’S 31. Daimler 32. Starbucks 33. Ebay 34. Verizon Communications

35. Cisco Systems 36. ING Groep 37. Singapore Airlines 38. Siemens 39. Costco Wholesale 40. HSBC 41. Bank Of America 42. Exxon Mobil 43. News Corp. 44. BP 45. Nike 46. Dell 47. Vodafone Group 48. Intel 49. Southwest Airlines 50. American Express

It’s gratifying to see how many of these are companies based on computing and/or communications or have a business that is largely based on exploiting the latest computing and communications technologies. I think that it is appropriate to look at IT and communications as a group, even though they are traditionally viewed as different business sectors, because the innovations in each tends to be in areas where they overlap.

The distribution of the country in which these 50 companies are based is interesting. Of course, many of these are truly multi-national corporations .

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