Thomson Reuters has listed Apple in its top 10 global tech leaders list, behind Microsoft, Intel and Cisco. Other top ten companies are Alphabet, IBM, Texas Instruments, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, SAP and Accenture.
Thomson Reuters says that it analyzed 28 separate factors across eight categories:
- Management & investor confidence
- Legal compliance
- Financial performance
- Innovation
- Risk & resilience
- People & social responsibility
- Reputation
- Environmental impact
The combination provides a ‘holistic’ view of companies, it says.
It argued that changing times require a new approach to judging the ability of a company to continue to succeed across time.
Our proprietary methodology goes beyond financials to capture a holistic view of what it takes to thrive.
This objective approach uses probabilistic programming techniques, drawing on both proven valuation strategy and unique data assets in a way that only Thomson Reuters can deliver.
Oddly, the company doesn’t rank the remaining 90 companies in the list, nor does it provide any detail of how a particular company fit its criteria.
Leadership, in today’s day and age, is judged less in terms of ledgers and balance sheets—as it has been over the last several centuries—and more in terms of the ability to disrupt quickly and establish a vision that captivates the world while staying true to operational rigors and the customer.
Today, we’re watching the gradual evolution from the Knowledge Economy into the Age of Arti cial Intelligence and Virtuality. With it, we are also experiencing a fundamental shift in what it means to be a leader in this rapidly-changing marketplace […]
Apple of course regularly wins awards and accolades, though in two recent rankings it took second place. In November TIME named the iPhone X the second-best gadget of 2017, and Drucker ranked Apple as the second-best managed company.
