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Source: Fast Company
Every working day Fast Company publishes a quote from an authoritative figure. Subsequently, more on the Fast Company front, in their latest issue they have published an insightful article on Google which moves far behind the doors of the leading internet giant. The article comes with an even more insightful and very detailed slideshow on the Googleplex. What a lovely place to work!
If you are interested in globalisation, you can hardly ignore the experiences of General Electric. Claudia Deutsch has written a fascinating article about the giant company’s journey from scepticism, to facing up to globalisation’s challenges, and now to become a truly global business in all facets.
“They are managing their worldwide organization as a network, not a centralized hub with foreign appendages,” said Christopher Bartlett, a professor at the Harvard Business School who has written several case studies on GE.
“Everyone talks about outsourcing manufacturing, but it is the high-level R&D jobs that are the great marketing tools, and I’m a salesman, remember. I know that you don’t get to sell things for long unless you are part of the culture into which you are selling.” Immelt said.
For example, GE Healthcare unit has already moved its headquarters to the London area, and another may follow soon. London, it turns out, is a better hub for global operations than Connecticut. If the whole company eventually follows, it won’t be the first time a Fortune 500 company has left the United States – and it certainly won’t be the last.
Fast Company has composed their list of last year’s most innovative companies around in world. In my opinion three companies out of the top ten are catching my eye.
First good old GE, they really put imagination at work beyond their fancy slogan. It surprises me how such an established and large company can still thrive and pull off a number of new breakthroughs every year. Secondly Nike, the sporting goods company from Beaverton, OR. Nike is the only company in the top 10 not engaged in an internet or technology driven industry. Thirdly, the Chinese internet company Alibaba, its the only company from emerging markets that made it into the top 10.
#1 Google
#2 Apple
#3 Facebook
#4 GE
#5 IDEO
#6 Nike
#7 Nokia
#8 Alibaba
#9 Amazon
#10 Nintendo
“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reasons to hope.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(found on the back of a Daimler Sustainability report)
Today, (February 1st) Microsoft Corporation, the world’s biggest software maker, made an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo! Inc. to challenge Google Inc.‘s dominance in Internet search services and advertising. The proposed deal, which would transform the software and internet-services industries, values Yahoo! at $31 a share, a 62% premium over the closing price on Thursday. What will the outcome be?
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