Take a look at this Poll/Survey BusinessWeek is conducting on their innovation section, Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Under their categories, I found some inconsistencies to question, for example, here is the list of “Best of the Best: Innovators 2005”
Best of the Best: Innovators
Please pick your favorite:
Katsuaki Watanabe (Toyota)
Niklas Zennstrom (Skype)
Steve Jobs (Apple, Pixar)
Terry Semel (Yahoo!)
Larry Page (Google)
Sergey Brin (Google)
Burt Rutan (Scaled Composites)
David Whitwam (Whirlpool)
My issues with this poll are:
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No rationale for these nominees are given, for example, both the founders of Google are choices, if Google is such an innovative company, both should get one vote not one each, how do we differentiate.
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David Whitwam is shown as an innovator, again, without a rationale, one can’t make out why he was selected, when ironically in the same issue, they’re covering just how innovative Haier’s washing machines are - see http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/11/washingmachine/index_01.htm
By this article, Haier comes across as far more innovative.
Here’s another category in this survey, again with no rationale for the nominees,
Best of the Best: Innovation Consultants
Please pick your favorite:
Tom Peters (Tom Peters Co.)
Tim Brown (IDEO)
Larry Keeley (Doblin)
Keith Yamashita (Stone Yamashita)
Clayton Christensen (Innosight)
Where are the examples of their innovation success stories for 2005?