Steve Jobs was 28 years old in 1983 and already recognized as one of the most innovative thinkers in Silicon Valley. The Apple (AAPL) board, though, was not ready to anoint him chief executive officer and picked PepsiCo (PEP) President John Sculley, famous for creating the Pepsi Challenge, to lead the company.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/14/apple-software-innovations-tech-virtualization08-cx_bc_0414apple.html Everywhere you turn this year, Apple‘s machines are on the march. Apple’s iPhone is continuing to gobble up the smart phone market. Apple’s PCs and notebook computers–long relegated to a niche status–are tearing off big gobs of the PC market. Even Apple’s least successful effort–AppleTV–has rivals such as Blockbuster scrambling to blunt Apple’s [...]

Source: http://creativityandinnovation.blogspot.com/2006/10/toyotas-innovation-factory.html How does an organization implement one million new creative ideas each year? And become a perennial top ten profitable companies of the world. And achieve market leadership while relentlessly pursuing perfection and delivering some of the best new innovations the world has ever seen. Welcome to Toyota’s Innovation Factory. The world knows Toyota [...]