All IT companies must be required to continue to innovate. Only, sometimes they are blocked by the availability of funding for research and development (R & D).
Well, a recent Booz & Co. has issued a ranking list of companies that are very generous to business R & D. With abundant funds were certainly a lot of innovations that they can reveal.
This list is itself not come by itself. Booz & Co has previously surveyed more than 700 senior R & D executives from various companies.
The executives asked a simple question, which is where the most innovative companies in the world because it has R & D division of the powerful?
From the answers appear gelontoran then combined with the amount of money these companies to support their R & D.
So in the end emerged a series of companies that claimed to be the most innovative in the world of technology, as reported detikINET from Business Insider, Wednesday (10/31/2012).
6.Amazon
R & D spending in 2011: USD 2.9 billion
R & D spend ranking: 48
R & D as a percentage of sales: 6.1%
Amazon formerly known as e-commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.
If Apple has an icon Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had Micorosft, then Amazon has a Jeff Bezos who became the driving force of the company.
Jeff Bezos founded the company (named Cadabra) in July 1994 and airs by name amazon.com site in 1995.
Until finally Amazon now successfully expanded its business with the release of the e-reader and tablet PC with Kindle Fire as well as a successful brand into one of the leading providers of cloud computing services.
5.IBM
R & D spending in 2011: $ 6.3 billion
R & D spend ranking: 17
R & D as a percentage of sales: 5.9%
International Business Machines (IBM) has long been a big name in the world of bearing technology. IBM is a U.S. company that manufactures and sells hardware and computer software. IBM was founded on June 16, 1911, in operation since 1888 and is based in Armonk, New York, United States.
According to the Wikipedia, IBM is one of the IT companies continue to take part of the 19th century. He has technicians and consultants in more than 170 countries and development laboratories are located all over the world. Some of them are pioneers in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
The machines and products are successful IBM mainframe system with 370 (in 1960), IBM PC, AS/400 and RS/6000 (1980), PowerPC CPU (1990, in collaboration with Motorola, - now Freescale)
IBM Research has eight research laboratories are located in the northern parts of the world, with half located outside the United States. IBM employees have won five Nobel. In America, they also get four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medal of Science, as well as many more outside the United States.
4. Microsoft
R & D Spending in 2011: U.S. $ 9 billion
R & D spend ranking: 5
R & D as a percentage of sales: 12.9%
Microsoft is one of the tech giants that originated from the garage. Is a garage at the home of Bill Gates as the place to start developing software that became the forerunner of Windows. At that time, Bill Gates founded Microsoft with Paul Allen.
Currently, Microsoft Windows is the most popular computer operating system in the world. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University is often named as one of the richest men on the planet.
Allen himself has retired from the board of directors of Microsoft in 2000. While Gates is now more focused on humanitarian affairs, though still listed as the chairman of Microsoft.
Despite not reinforced Gates, Microsoft still gigantic. In 2012, they still dominate the market for PC operating systems and office software through Windows and Microsoft Office.
Microsoft also produces a series of software for servers, and still strive in the Internet search business through Bing, as well as the video game industry with the Xbox.
Recent Actions company founded in 1975 is the launch of their tergress OS, Windows 8, which brings a fresh user interface style boxes.
3. Samsung
R & D spending in 2011: U.S. $ 9 billion
R & D spend ranking: 6
R & D as a percentage of sales: 6%
Samsung is an electronics giant from South Korea. Currently, Samsung operates in a number of business areas, from telecommunications, digital appliances, digital media, LCD, semiconductor, and automotive equipment.
Now, to business innovation also be sensitive to the Samsung. At least it was strongly felt in recent years. Where Samsung patent war with Apple is very fierce.
As a result, funds are disbursed USD 9 billion for R & D division seems not difficult to Samsung. The reason is simple, namely to protect and spawn new technologies and innovations to wade through competition.
2. Google
R&D spend ranking: 26
R&D as a percentage of sales: 13,6%
Google could be regarded as the ruler of the Internet. Yes, since the rate of stuttering Yahoo, Google seemed to not have any competitors in cyberspace.
Remarkably, would not complacent with what has been achieved. Google continues menggeber their R & D to continue to innovate. From creating new product / service for the user to track the prototype gadget future.
In fact, Google is said to have nicknamed the super-secret laboratory Google X So secret, most Google employees do not know where the laboratory is located.
According to internal sources, Google X is located at the Google offices in Mountain View, California. Google co-founder Sergey Brin deeply involved in this laboratory.
Nan try imaginative ideas embodied in Google X. One of these smart glasses and a car that can run itself automatically recently exhibited Google, also developed in the lab.
There's more. For example, food trays computers that can be used to update Facebook. Until robots are able to represent the users come to the meeting. If it is successful and may bring money, then the product will be on display. Wonderful is not it?
1. Apple
R & D spending in 2011: $ 2.4 billion
R & D spend ranking: 53
R & D as a percentage of sales: 2.2%
Gadget which currently do not know Apple? The company is so popular with the gadget is cool, elegant, and certainly worth the premium. Prices are expensive - for some people - which is embedded in every product Apple has paid off with its performance.
It is certainly not separated from the R & D division of the company from Cupertino, USA, it has worked hard to produce advanced innovations, and then delivered to the user.
Apple's R & D section was made as mysterious as possible. Never mind the capabilities and model, Apple is famous for its action closed his mouth when asked about their new product plans.
Not only business innovation in technology, Apple is also known from the design. 'Empire' Apple designs its own led by the master of design, Jony Ive. The man who had received the title of 'Sir' of the United Kingdom has become one of the key figures in Apple.
Ive really relaxed disposition, but he is a figure behind a row of elegant design of Apple products. No doubt, people trust Steve Jobs also has a special studio at Apple's headquarters, where only certain people are allowed to enter into it.
Source : detikINET.com
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