Fast Company has ranked Huawei the fifth most innovative company in the world for 2010,behind only Facebook,Amazon,Apple,and Google. Huawei was the only new-entrant to the list of the top five most innovative companies.
Fast Company credited Huaweis strong business growth in 2009 to its leadership in customer-centric innovation. In an article in the March 2010 issue,Fast Company said of Huawei: “Huawei Technologies shot past Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens in 2009 to become the world’s No. 2 telecom-equipment provider,powered by quality and product upgrades in the past year.
Commenting on this,Max Yang,CEO,Huawei India,said: One of Huawei’s key differentiators is our customer-centric innovation strategy that is focused on understanding operator needs and rapidly delivering customized network solutions to create maximum value.”