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4 Overview: the ride of your life
The top 100 global technology
companies are managing through
multiple concurrent disruptive
innovations in 2010, while the
macro economy and its currencies
fluctuate with increasing volatility.
It all makes for quite a ride.
8 Top 25 diversified companies
The global top 25 diversified technology
companies are agile and innovative; in
many cases, they are setting the pace
of change and shaping the future. Here
we shed light on how they are doing so
vis-à-vis the disruptive megatrend of
smart mobility.
14 Sector view
These snapshots of how each sector
is faring show resilience in the face of
disruptive change and macroeconomic
volatility. We offer sector views on:
communications equipment, page 14;
computers, peripherals and electronics,
page 16; internet, page 18; IT services,
page 20; semiconductors, page 22; and
software, page 24.
26 Top of mind: building business value
from smart mobile innovation
Global technology companies face a
breathtaking landscape of opportunity
to develop and deliver the mobile
products and services that their
enterprise and consumer customers
demand. Managing the development
of those products and services presents
some daunting challenges. Here we
describe Product Innovation and
Lifecycle Management (PILM), an
approach to overcoming the challenges
and seizing the opportunities.
28 Outlook
Innovative new technology has moved
fromthe “nice to have” to the “must
have” list for most businesses and
consumers. That enhances optimism
about the future of the global
technology industry, regardless of
near-term macroeconomic uncertainty.
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31 Methodology