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Most Innovative Leaders

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For the past seven years we have collaborated with Forbes Magazine to produce the World's Most Innovative Companies List. This list represents our attempt each year to objectively determine which organizations have a robust innovation culture and capability. We derive the list using a combination of quantitative and qualitative measurements across three pillars of innovation: People, Process, and Philosophies.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Leaders

Jeff Bezos
01
Jeff Bezos
Amazon
Company Innovation Premium: 71.49%
Elon Musk
01
Elon Musk
Tesla
Company Innovation Premium: 72.16%
Mark Zuckerberg
03
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook
Company Innovation Premium: 61.84%
Marc Benioff
04
Marc Benioff
Salesforce.com
Company Innovation Premium: 80.7%
Reed Hastings
05
Reed Hastings
Netflix
Company Innovation Premium: 72.16%
Satya Nadella
06
Satya Nadella
Microsoft
Company Innovation Premium: 31.59%
Shantanu Narayen
07
Shantanu Narayen
Adobe
Company Innovation Premium: 64.43%
Tim Cook
08
Tim Cook
Apple
Company Innovation Premium: 11.58%
Arne Sorenson
09
Arne Sorenson
Marriott International
Company Innovation Premium: 53.66%
Larry Page & Sergey Brin
10
Larry Page & Sergey Brin
Alphabet
Company Innovation Premium: 33.87%

How We Rank the Top Innovative Companies

Most innovation rankings are popularity contests based on past performance or editorial whims. We set out to create something very different with the World's Most Innovative Companies list, using the wisdom of the crowd. Our method relies on quantitative and qualitative data that explores investors' ability to identify firms they expect to be innovative now and in the future, and employee perspectives on how innovative they believe their organization to be.

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