B.C.’s 20 most innovative companies
Innovation – a business buzz word, an elusive quality, thing or way of thinking? Innovation, and being innovative, is a quality most businesses strive for and hope to achieve. But how can one apply/encourage/create innovation in their business?
Featured in this month’s issue of BCBusiness magazine is the 2010 Guide to Innovation where a panel of innovator experts has looked at ‘20 organizations both big and small, from a wide variety of fields, who are shaking up their industries, our province, and even our world’ [Read more at BCB].
Marc Stoiber, VP Green Innovation at Maddock Douglas shares his perspective on innovation and “how failure is key to getting innovation right” in the BCB Guide. Stoiber’s three key take-aways are:
- Finding a meaningful insight or market need
- Creating a new product, service or business model to fill that need
- Linking 1 and 2 with communication.
Find out who made the top 20 innovators list here.
Supporting innovation in B.C. and the local business community, the Certified Management Accountants Society of B.C. is proud to be a sponsor of B.C. Business magazine’s second annual B.C.’s leading innovators reception on April 8, 2010 at the Loden Hotel.
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Bringing innovation, strategy, management and accounting expertise to their workplaces, B.C. CMAs work at the following top 20 BCBusiness Innovator companies:
Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates
BuildDirect Technologies
Westport Innovations Inc.
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Lululemon Athletica Inc.
