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December 1, 2010 By Rob Enderle
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As the end of the year nears its time to look back at the firms that set positive examples of how to do things right in the technology market. Each of these companies stood out for excellence either in marketing, products, or services. These aren’t in any particular order.
Apple
Apple in 2010 and for much of last decade defined itself with a blend of mostly strong complete products with good marketing and support. Their iPhone 4 – even with some initial hiccups and tied at the hip to AT&T, one of the least liked carriers – still ranked consistently at the top of its class, which is like someone winning a Marathon while pulling a truck. No other company has been so consistently good over such a long period of time. While they at times are a bit overly controversial, no other firm hit so strongly on all three vectors last year.
EMC
One of my personal big hot buttons is customer care and customer loyalty. EMC is the only company that takes this aggressively up to the CEO level, and it continued to push the envelope this year. With some of the other companies in EMC’s enterprise segment seem to take customer satisfaction and loyalty for granted, this focus enables EMC to stand out as an example of what we want our companies to do – care about us, and take our own feelings about their products and services very seriously.
Microsoft
2010 was Microsoft’s year. While most of the decade it executed well with enterprise products (with the clear exception of Windows Vista), they did substandard marketing until last year. In 2010 they stepped up to working on their image with a vengeance and have done stunning work with Windows 7, the most successful operating system in terms of volume in the history of the planet, and with Windows Phone 7.
In this last, only Hyundai is doing better TV work with commercials tied to product use in the shows the ads are connected to. Xbox Kinect, Ford Sync II, IE9 beta, and Office 2010 were all sharply improved and generally lead their class in terms of innovation or execution. Microsoft heads my short list of most improved companies in 2010.
HP
HP stands out because its board of handpicked members stood up in front of an entitled CEO and said the rules apply to him as well as all other HP employees. We seem to live in a time where CEOs feel strongly that rules shouldn’t apply to them. While HP’s CEO was flying private jets and receiving massive bonuses, HP employees were shoehorned into coach and had benefits, profit sharing and even their jobs stripped from them.
The HP board finally said “enough” and booted his sorry butt out of the company. And if more boards would make a similar effort to do their jobs we probably wouldn’t have had as many problems with firms misacting in a number of segments over the last two years.
Lenovo
Lenovo brought on board David Roman, who came up with the most creative PC marketing campaign of the last decade for HP. What made this campaign unique is that it utilized HP’s philanthropic budget to get free celebrity support, providing huge interest for a fraction of the money.
Technology companies are often defined by poorly funded and executed marketing largely because they use too many untrained practitioners. Lenovo chased down one of the best in the business. This was a best practice and bodes well for them next year. As an aside, in a breakdown of what PC analysts actually use as their carry laptops, the Lenovo ThinkPad remains No. 1 with a significant lead, followed by Dell and Apple.
IBM
The company that led the large scale hardware and services market for decades realized that the emphasis on the cloud and Oracle’s acquisition of Sun required a major change in strategy, and put Steve Mills in as the number 2 executive at the firm.
Companies that reach IBM’s scale are often defined by an inability to change and react to major market moves and IBM has historically shared this problem under earlier executives. Sam Palmisano has stepped out and broken with tradition by putting software in the lead position and better positioning IBM for its likely future. In a year often defined by firms with misbehaving CEOs, Palmisano stands out as a true asset to his company and Steve Mills is right behind him.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm emerged as the vendor in Smartphones. It was the only vendor to both anticipate the need for better graphics by acquiring technology for AMD and buy a company building next-generation Transflective displays. Of the vendors in their space they seem to be the most driven competitively and most strategic and focused in terms of acquisitions and internal development efforts. For instance, their coming Skifta application could redefine both the smartphone and the universal remote control, connecting the control to content directly and not just to the devices that play it.
Strategy is often a term that is often used but relatively poorly understood by most companies; Qualcomm appears to be the exception that understands and funds big strategic moves best.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA is doing the most work to promote GPU computing and much of what is being done is in pharmaceuticals and medical research. They seemed to get that they had to step out of the box to compete with Intel and by so doing created the least expensive super computers on the planet. This power is currently being used to create solutions to medical problems. Of all the firms, it is the most likely to be connected to something that could save each of our lives. Staying alive remains a high priority and helping me do that puts NVIDIA on this list.
Panasonic
If it is a product I cover and Panasonic is in the space, they have the best one. This includes digital cameras, 3D TVs, and particularly hardened laptops. Panasonic is the only laptop builder that consistently builds products that you can stake your life on. The Toughbook remains the best-hardened laptop in the world. They also were the only vendor that recognized the need for a combined solar/fuel cell solution for the home and presented it at the last CES. The company acquired Sanyo to complete the solution.
Saving lives and thinking ahead of the market puts them on this list. On a related point, it was founded by Konosuke Matsushita, who built the company out of nothing and held customers and customer loyalty as his primary goal. He remains one of the greatest examples of how to be successful by treating your employees and customers well. Something too many companies forgot last year.
Wrapping Up
We, as analysts, tend to spend a lot of time as critics and not enough time pointing out what companies did right. I don’t expect that will change, but this week is about excellence and these firms each stood out in my mind in the technology market as firms that exceeded one or more key expectations and demonstrated excellence in 2010.
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由于接近年底的时间看看这使公司在技术市场的权利，如何做事积极的例子回来。这些公司都站出来卓越无论是在销售，产品或服务。这些都不是任何特定的顺序。
苹果
苹果在2010年的最后十年的大部分时间定义为一个融合了良好的营销和支持完整的产品本身大多强。他们的iPhone 4 - 即使有一些初步的打嗝和臀部相连的AT＆T，最不喜欢的航空公司之一 - 仍然排名一直在其类，这就像赢得一个马拉松，而有人拉着一车的顶部。没有其他公司一直坚持这样在如此长的时间好。虽然他们有时是有点过分争议，没有其他公司所有三个向量袭击如此强烈的最后一年。
电磁兼容
我个人是大热的一个按钮的客户服务和客户忠诚度。 EMC是唯一一家有这种积极到CEO级别，并继续推动今年的信封。凭借在EMC公司的企业市场其他公司的一些人似乎认为理所当然客户满意度和忠诚度，这重点使EMC站出来作为一个什么样的例子，我们希望我们的公司做的事情 - 关心我们，走自己的感受对他们的产品和服务非常重视。
微软
2010年是微软的一年。虽然十年的大部分时间它执行与企业产品畅销（与Windows Vista的明确除外），但他们直到去年销售不合格。 2010年，他们加强了对他们的报复形象的工作和做与Windows 7，对于在地球的历史上最成功的数量计算的操作系统，与Windows手机7惊人的工作。
在这最后，只有现代汽车正在与产品捆绑使用工作在更好的电视广告的节目的广告连接。的Xbox Kinect，福特SYNC二，IE9的测试版，和Office 2010均大幅提高，一般会导致他们在创新和执行方面的类。微软负责我公司在2010年进步最大的短名单。
惠普
惠普脱颖而出，因为它的挑选委员会成员，站起来在一篇题为总裁面前，他说的规则适用于他以及其他所有惠普员工。我们似乎在一时间生活在CEO们强烈地感到，规则不应适用于他们。而惠普公司的首席执行官是私人飞机飞行和接收大量的奖金，惠普员工将被塞进了教练和效益，利润分享，甚至从他们身上剥夺他们的工作。
惠普董事会最后说：“够了”，并引导他的公司很抱歉屁股了。而如果有更多的议会将作出类似的努力做好自己，我们也许就不会作为一个分部在过去两年数量misacting公司许多问题的工作。
联想
联想集团董事会大卫带来了罗马，谁想出了一个最有创意的PC惠普过去十年的营销活动了。这是什么活动独特之处在于它利用惠普的慈善预算，以获得免费的名人的支持，提供了巨大的利益的一小部分钱。
科技公司通常定义为资金匮乏和执行市场营销主要是因为他们使用太多的未受过训练的医生。联想追赶下来的最好的业务之一。这是一个最好的做法，预示明年对他们有利。顺便说一句，在一个什么样的电脑进行分析实际上是作为他们的笔记本电脑使用的明细账，联想ThinkPad号仍然具有明显的领先戴尔和苹果公司之后，1。
IBM公司
该公司领导的大规模硬件和意识到，在云和甲骨文收购Sun强调需要在战略的重大改变几十年来服务市场，并把数字2为在公司行政史蒂夫米尔斯。
IBM公司达成的公司的规模往往是一个无法定义的变化和市场波动作出反应，主要和IBM历来共享高管初期的这个问题。彭明盛已加强了与传统的按把处于领先地位，其未来可能更好的定位IBM的软件。在一年的定义往往是企业行为不端的CEO，彭明盛凸现出一个真正的资产，他的公司和史蒂夫米尔斯是对他的身后。
高通
高通成为了智能手机厂商。它是唯一一家既期待有更好的图形技术，需要通过收购AMD公司和购买公司建设新一代的半透显示。在他们的空间的厂商，他们似乎是最有竞争力，最具战略驱动和在收购和内部发展方面的努力重点。例如，它们的到来Skifta应用程序可以同时重新定义智能手机和通用遥控器控制，连接控制的内容，而不仅仅是直接的设备播放。
战略往往是一个经常使用，但大多数公司相对了解甚少期限;高通似乎是例外，那就是最好的理解和资金的大战略举措。
NVIDIA公司
NVIDIA公司是做最多的工作，以促进和GPU计算的是什么做了很多药品和医疗研究。他们似乎得到了加强，他们的开箱即与英特尔和竞争这样创造了这个星球上最昂贵的超级计算机。目前这项权力被用来创建解决医疗问题。在所有的公司，它是最有可能被连接到的东西可以拯救我们的生活每个。存活下去仍然是一个高度优先事项，并帮助我做这使得NVIDIA公司在此列表中。
松下
如果它是一个产品，我盖和松下的空间，他们有最好的之一。这包括数码相机，3D电视，特别是硬的笔记本电脑。松下是唯一的建设者，始终建立笔记本电脑产品，你可以坚持你的生活。的Toughbook19仍然是世界上最硬的笔记本电脑。他们还唯一一家公认的一个联合太阳能/燃料电池解决方案，为家庭的需要，并提出在最后CES上它。该公司收购三洋为完善解决方案。
拯救生命和超前思维投放市场在此列表中。在一个相关的一点，它是由松下幸之助，谁修建了从无到有，举行客户及他的主要目标客户忠诚度的公司。他仍然是如何被对待你的员工和客户以及成功的伟大典范。东西太多的公司忘了去年。
结束语
我们作为分析师，批评家往往花费大量的时间，没有足够的时间，指出哪些公司做得对。我不期望会改变，但是这周是关于卓越，这些公司中脱颖而出，每个技术市场在我心中，因为公司超出一个或多个关键的期望，在2010年表现卓越。