Beautiful ideas of the world’s most innovative firms
Great ideas can arrive in a moment of inspiration, plucked out of the ether fully formed. More often, though, the muses don’t pick up the phone. Innovation is mess and toil, and often found outside your four walls. “No matter who you are,” said tech pioneer Bill Joy, “most of the smartest people work for someone else.” The world’s most innovative firms, whose ideas are featured here, will always admit brilliance is harder than it looks
Curated By: Forbes
Marriott
Get loud in the lobby
5-yr SaleS growth/ 5-yr total return: 29%/ 110%
Looking outside the hotel business for new ideas, Marriott recently collaborated with Netflix so guests at select hotels can stream their queue in-room and with GoPro to rent action cameras so tourists can record their adventures. Marriott and Universal Music Group set a roster of the label’s artistes to play exclusive performances in hotels around the globe. Ellie Goulding kicked things off in June with a raucous show at the St Pancras Renaissance in London
Get loud in the lobby
5-yr SaleS growth/ 5-yr total return: 29%/ 110%
Looking outside the hotel business for new ideas, Marriott recently collaborated with Netflix so guests at select hotels can stream their queue in-room and with GoPro to rent action cameras so tourists can record their adventures. Marriott and Universal Music Group set a roster of the label’s artistes to play exclusive performances in hotels around the globe. Ellie Goulding kicked things off in June with a raucous show at the St Pancras Renaissance in London
