TheCASHFLOW – America Online CEO: “We’re Hustling as Fast as We Can”.

This report from TheCASHFLOW demonstrates the importance of understanding how to stay on top of your game in the face of changing competitive pressures. At one point, AOL was the way of accessing the internet as people weren’t comfortable using search pages or other lesser known portal sites as their default home page. Now that people have become savvy and much more at ease with using the internet on their own terms, they don’t need to pay for a portal service and AOL’s revenues have suffered as a result. AOL is working on perfecting their hustle, but is it too late for the former internet giant to return to glory?

Most Innovative Companies | The Fast Company Blog | Fast Company.

As you build your business and benchmark your brand, products, and processes against the best of the best, consider a recent article by Fast Company on the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

Some of the usual suspects are present–Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google–but there are some others that might surprise you: Walmart? IBM? Frito Lay? Innovation can keep even the most established company fresh and curent while helping new businesses to catapult into the attention arena.

There are 50 companies listed on the overall list and then the list is further segregated by twenty-four industry lists. The All Star list showcases those companies that have weathered the economic storm and maintained innovative initiatives during 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Check the lists to see if your favorite company made the cut. Study what each listed enterprise has done to distinguish itself as innovative and think about what you might integrate within your own efforts.

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