Facebook: “World’s Most Innovative Company”
Facebook has topped a respected list of the world’s most innovative companies, beating the likes of Google and Apple; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7291617/Facebook-worlds-most-innovative-company.html.
This list looks at the top 50 companies across all business sectors, so it’s great to see tech companies dominating the top three places. Apple, Google, Amazon and Spotify ranked highly. It’s also interesting that social networking tool Twitter only just crept onto the bottom of the list this year, coming in at number 50.
Zuckerberg invented Facebook back in 2003 and, despite controversy surrounding privacy and use of the site in the workplace, the site now has over 400 million active users worldwide and last year’s revenues were estimated to have been at around the $550 million mark. This shows how much the world has changed.
In the past, companies such as Google would have been top ranking on the list, but this year it’s been pushed down by Facebook. Perhaps this shows a shift towards social networking sites achieving bigger stakes, not only in technology, but in the wider business world. To see full details of the companies which featured on the list, see this link http://www.fastcompany.com/mic/2010.
Dave Baldwin
Dave Baldwin is Managing Director of Getronics UK and Ireland. He has worked in the ICT industry for over 15 years, primarily with major private sector companies in the retail, telecoms and financial services markets. Dave's career started on the development side, having studied electronic and computer engineering in Birmingham, but after a few years of large systems development it was time for a change and he moved into client management at ICL, where his focus was enhancing IT support and development services. When ICL was bought by Fujitsu, Dave led the transformation of the field support and logistics capabilities to become a world class capability both in terms of service quality and efficiency. After a brief spell as Regional Managing Director of Chubb Fire, Dave re-joined Fujitsu Services to lead their largest customer in the private sector – Royal Mail Group, from which he went on to lead their retail business (2005 – 2008). He joined Getronics in the summer of 2008 for a fresh and renewed challenge, taking the helm of a major provider of ICT solutions to clients across the UK and Ireland.
Dave Baldwin is Managing Director of Getronics UK and Ireland. He has worked in the ICT industry for over 15 years, primarily with major private sector companies in the retail, telecoms and financial services markets. Dave's career started on the development side, having studied electronic and computer engineering in Birmingham, but after a few years of large systems development it was time for a change and he moved into client management at ICL, where his focus was enhancing IT support and development services. When ICL was bought by Fujitsu, Dave led the transformation of the field support and logistics capabilities to become a world class capability both in terms of service quality and efficiency. After a brief spell as Regional Managing Director of Chubb Fire, Dave re-joined Fujitsu Services to lead their largest customer in the private sector – Royal Mail Group, from which he went on to lead their retail business (2005 – 2008). He joined Getronics in the summer of 2008 for a fresh and renewed challenge, taking the helm of a major provider of ICT solutions to clients across the UK and Ireland. ...less info
