Hoovey689

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Audi, Toyota land on MIT's list of 50 Most Disruptive Companies

MIT Technology Review, a magazine all about innovation, has announced its list of the 50 most disruptive companies in 2013, and both Audi and Toyota made the cut. While the term "most disruptive" may carry a negative connotation in most uses (especially in the classroom), the acknowledgement in this case is an accolade, signifying that the company is at the forefront of its industry. In a nutshell, a disruptive company is a business whose innovations force other businesses to alter their strategic direction.

Audi made the list for "pushing autonomous cars closer to fruition with a laser-scanning road detector that fits in a vehicle's front grille," and Toyota for "expanding its dominance of the hybrid-car market with its new plug-in version of the Prius."

http://www.technologyreview.com

Source:
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/23/a...ive-companies/

TripleL

Props to Audi and Toyota. I also noticed Apple and Google on there

darkdream

Basically the most powerful companies in their industry.

Blackraven

In short, BIG TIME organizations

Hoovey689

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Pinterest is on there? 0.o

pbm317

That's interesting... as the Plug-In Prius is hardly a game changer in the industry, and doesn't sell in large numbers beyond people in California wanting a car pool pass.

While Toyota may seem fairly innovative, I feel there are some scary similarities to Toyota and former high ranking Sony. Premium products that were once top notch and very deserving of their premium price position, but Samsung (once again a very aggressive Korean company) made some big jumps into product lines with more substantial changes in each generation, and now Sony has withered away. They still make solid products, but have been displaced. I liken this to Toyota's slower kaizen approach. Outside of Prius, the current Toyota powertrains are generally fairly ho-hum. Other OEM's are leading the pack in terms of widespread direct injection, forced induction, etc. Also, other OEM's are bringing out, in my opinion, more consumer "wow" features first.

Again, I think Toyota is still a strong company, I just feel they need a fire lit under them to get them to be a hungry company again.

bnizzle87

Interesting list of companies. Time to research how they fare in the stock market. Google was definitely making headlines for its $800 per share price earlier last week. I think it just dipped below that for the week's closing.

mmarshall

Problem is..............the Chevy Volt (and, in, Europe, its Vauxhall Ampera twin) beat the Prius Plug-in to market by a substantial margin. I'll admit, though, that the Prius Plug-in is a little more reasonably-priced then the Volt, which, IMO, even with tax-credits, is simply too much of a rip-off.