Despite the fall in home sales, Xiaomi continues to receive recognition for its technology innovation and design research, all while maintaining low prices. The latest of these awards comes from Fast Company, which has included Xiaomi in their list of the most innovative companies in the world.
Fast Company is a monthly magazine founded in 1995 by two former editors of the Harvard Business Review and a publisher, famous owner of media companies, which over the years has managed to become one of the references worldwide among innovative media companies , with a unique editorial focus set on innovation in technology, ethical economics, leadership and design. Fast Company examines thousands of companies every year, looking for those that are successful in both public favor and commercial outcomes, and use commerce to try to make a difference in the world. Their criterion of choice is the impact they generate.
According to this new survey of companies that are important in the 2017, Xiaomi, despite a drop in China's sales to competitors such as BBK Enterprises - the conglomerate producing Oppo, Vivo, and also OnePlus - and Huawei, globally grew , as evidenced by, for example, the 2 million smartphones sold in India in the third quarter of 2016.
Xiaomi also worked hard so that it was not perceived only as a smartphone manufacturer: in fact, thanks to agreements also with minor Chinese startups - for the moment there are 77 of them and are thus able to take advantage of the resources, the chain of supply and the growing presence in online and usual sales channels - manages to offer a wide range of objects, among which we mention a great variety of headphones, smart bands, tablets, We remind you that only in 2016 it introduced, among the most important things, his first laptop, a robot vacuum cleaner, a smart rice cooker, a $ 29 VR headset, a quadcopter drone and an electric scooter.
As far as the actual list is concerned, Xiaomi is ranked thirteenth, after names such as Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, while the third is among the Chinese, after big companies such as Alibaba and Tencent it is responsible for providing International services) and fourth if we look at consumer electronics vendors.
We do our compliments to Xiaomi for these great achievements, with the confidence that in 2017 we will again wonder how much he will offer us.
