2016 Global ICT 50 Study
The top 50 companies in the information and communications technology industry
Each year, Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business, compiles a list of the 50 largest publicly traded companies in the ICT sector, ranked by a formula combining four measures: financial performance, portfolio strength, geographic footprint, and innovation and branding. Together, these criteria determine the degree to which these companies influence the enterprise market for digitization-related products and services. The most recent study, compiled with 2015 data, provides a clear picture of the most powerful companies in this industry, especially for B2B hardware, software, and services.
Key findings
- Eight of the top 10 companies from 2014 remained in the top 10 of the 2015 rankings, indicating some stability in the industry at its highest levels. The rest of the rankings, however, differed considerably from the year before.
- HP, ranked before its decision to split into two separate companies, moved up three spots to number six, driven by its improving financial results.
- EMC, ranked before its acquisition by Dell in early 2016, moved up to the ninth spot from number 13, thanks largely to the greater breadth of its product portfolio.
- Intel jumped all the way from number 24 to number 12, thanks primarily to the increased strength of its product portfolio as it shifts from being a pure hardware-oriented company to a company with an integrated mix of hardware and software.
- No telecommunications operators or regional IT service providers are in the top 15, an indication of these companies’ continued strategic challenges and the constraints imposed by their physical and geographic boundaries.
A complete write-up of this year’s study, can be found in the November edition of Strategy&’s award winning magazine strategy+business, or online at www.strategy-business.com/globaltech
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