Top Companies for Innovation – WSJ

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Design in Design Innovation | 0 Comments

Several of the biggest names in the technology industry scored highest for innovation in the latest Management Top 250 ranking, with Amazon.com Inc. leading the pack, followed by International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp . and Apple Inc., in that order.

Those four companies also have the highest overall scores in the annual Management Top 250 ranking, developed by the Drucker Institute, which measures corporate effectiveness by examining performance in five categories: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility and financial strength.

Microsoft, ranked No. 1 overall, also made the top 10 for employee engagement and development and had the highest scores for social responsibility and financial strength among the more than 800 companies studied by Drucker.

IBM, No. 3 overall, also had the highest score for customer satisfaction. Apple, No. 2 overall, and Amazon, No. 4 overall, also made the top 10 for financial strength.