Self organization and bottoms up systems as followed by ants and flocks of birds are already  widely documented.

Business World recently published a good article about learning from nature about how to invade into existing businesses. The article uses example ranging from Asian carp to the zebra mussel and how they create new opportunities for themselves and those that can adapt quickly enough to help exploit the way they affect things.

Read the complete article here.

Facebook jumped from its no.15 ranking last year to top the chart this time, while amazon jumped from no.9 to no.2.

Interestingly there is a link specific to most innovative Indian companies and the leader of this lot is the Indian Premier League.

In the Design section IDEO, my personal favorite, comes second to the BMW Group Designworks.

FiLife tops the charts in the finance section, First Solar leads the energy charts while Alstom leads the transportation rankings.

These are the Fast Company rankings but we would love to know which is the most innovative companies according to you?

The term disruptive technology was coined by Clayton M. Christensen in an article in 1995.

In a Core77 article, Niti Bhan takes a look at some products that are successful at the bottom of the pyramid by being simpler to use, cheaper and offering value to the less profitable and thus having the ability to disrupt markets outside of their intended audience.

The post covers 5 case studies:

• The original 7-inch ASUS eeePC
• The Tata Group’s products like Swach
• Entry level mobile phone like the Nokia 1100
• Household appliances like Godrej’s Chotu Kool
• Affordable Alternative Power

Click here to read the compete post on Core 77.

To add to Niti’s  last point of affordable alternative energy, Selco is also a good case study. Harsh Hande set up the company Selco in Bangalore, which now supplies some 80 000 people with solar power helping improve life for many in Karnataka and Kerala.