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BCG names 50 most innovative firms in '16
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 01 - 2017

Apple, Google, Tesla, and Microsoft retain the top four spots in The Boston Consulting Group's annual survey of the most innovative companies. Amazon moves up four spots to round out the top five. Netflix and Facebook join the top 10 for the first time, moving up 15 and 19 spots respectively.
This year›s list is a global group: 34 companies on the list are from the US, 10 are from Europe, and 6 from Asia. This regional mix represents a significant shift toward North American companies, which capture 68% of the top 50, up from 44% in 2013.
BCG has surveyed more than 1,500 senior innovation executives—across a wide range of countries and industries—eleven times since 2004 to cast light on the state of innovation in business. In its new report, The Most Innovative Companies 2016: Getting Past "Not Invented Here," the firm reveals the 50 companies that global innovation executives ranked as the most innovative and explores the increasing imperative for companies to bring in innovations from outside.
"Given faster-changing markets—and the fact that even in more traditional sectors technology is becoming a key differentiator—a not-invented-here mindset can be fatal," said BCG partner and report coauthor Andrew Taylor. "Today's most successful innovators strike a strategic balance between internal and external innovation. They are smart and efficient at scanning for external ideas—and deft at bringing them inside."
The research finds a gap between the strongest innovators and their weaker peers in the pursuit of external ideas. Strong innovators take a more analytical approach, with 65% reporting they find new ideas through social network and big data mining (compared with just 14% for weak innovators). Strong innovators are also flexible in how they bring in innovations. For example, 66% say that they find new ideas through external partnerships often or very often (versus just 22% for weak innovators).
According to BCG partner and report coauthor Michael Ringel, "we see innovators increasingly embracing advanced analytics to spot key technologies to license and targets for acquisition and partnership—allowing them to shorten development cycles and outrun competitors."
Companies seeking to tap the benefits of external innovation use a range of techniques, both structural and cultural, to bring outside ideas inside.
"Leading innovators combat the not-invented-here mindset through structure and culture," said BCG partner and report coauthor Hadi Zablit. "They complement traditional vehicles like joint ventures with newer approaches like corporate venture capital and incubators—and through incentives and leadership they foster a more outward-looking culture."
The data supports this point of view. For example, among strong innovators, 62% use incubators (versus only 13% of weak). And 80% of strong innovators report their organization is open and collaborative (versus 22% of weak).
The report also featured in-depth stories of companies that are rising to the external innovation challenge:
How Under Armour, a new entrant on the list, at number 22, has leveraged a mix of internal and external innovation to generate a 42.5% total shareholder return from 2011 through 2015.
How Johnson & Johnson, number 29 on the list, structures itself to recognize and reward innovation no matter where it originates.
How Brooks Automation used innovation analytics to identify a major adjacent market opportunity that now represents 20% of the company's revenue and offers significant room to grow.


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