Wii-tan
Recently BusinessWeek has released the list of World’s Best Companies Top 40 which was compiled by A.T. Kearney. So, what is the criteria for a company to be in the list? In excerpt of what they say, it’s basically companies that have a commitment to innovation, diversified portfolios, aggressive expansion, strong leadership, and a clear vision for the future. “In an environment of continuous disruptive change, companies that have rigorous strategic planning initiatives that allow them to see over the horizon…are far more likely to win than those that make it up as they go along,” says Paul Laudicina, chairman of A.T. Kearney. To create the list, A.T. Kearney examined the 2,500 largest publicly listed companies in the world. Kearney’s team singled out those with a minimum of $10 billion in sales in 2008, at least 25% of which came from outside the company’s home region. It then ranked the companies on their sales growth and value creation—the rise of market capitalization after subtracting any increase in capital—over the past five years.
A commitment to innovation, diversified portfolios, aggressive expansion, strong leadership, and a clear vision for the future—these are just some of the strategies employed by the best companies to get to the top of the World’s Best Companies/Global Top 40 list compiled for BusinessWeek by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. Two groups stand out: technology and telecommunications companies that have tapped into continuing demand for mobile-phone service and new digital hardware and services, and heavy industry and engineering outfits benefiting from the uptick in infrastructure spending. Have a look at the numbers behind the companies on this list.
I took a screenshot for that page.
World's Best Companies 2009
So, Nintendo ranked first, Google’s second and Apple comes third, with no Sony and Microsoft were seen within the list. What makes the list interesting is that, “What the fuck? Nintendo tops?” Pretty much, the oil and gas companies are usually the ones who getting high above along with other heavy industries like steels and machineries. Truly, those things are important in daily basis especially the petrol for our cars. Perhaps with recession and other instabilities like the fuel prices in recent years might have affecting oil and gas industries much. One of the reason why Nintendo and Apple are there because they’re getting better with their electronic devices. Not forgetting that they also providing software and other services. Google dominated the world’s Internet services and it’s not that surprising as Google itself has became a noun. Yet, from 4th to the 40th, no other companies in their categories were there. Well, we have Oracle on the 31st rank who still leads as software experts despite I never had a chance to take a peek at their software. It is worth and important to point out that, although Nintendo is always being bashed for their decent and sometimes boring products, they’re up there. Nor Sony neither Microsoft. Also, ever since Apple jumped into smartphone devices world through their iPhone products, their enemies are no longer one sided with Microsoft but also Nokia, Blackberry and many more. If Microsoft has been known to have rivalries between them and Apple decades ago, Nokia also had their times with Apple like their mocking of “we have many phones and models to be offered for our customers unlike certain company that focusing on one product.” Well, that one product certainly the one that made your variety of phones getting lower in sales for the past years, buddy.
iPhone-tan, Black and White
Aha.
Good Smile Co. not in the list??
Nope. There’s not even MLM company on the list either.