Accordingly, by 2015, 40 percent of Global 1000 organizations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations.

FORBES: The Gamification of Business

What is so surprising to me about what the the Global 1000 are telling us, however, is what they are not doing.

FORBES: The Folly of Trying to Spend Your Way to Innovativeness

Why, he asks, can a woman in Bangladesh get a micro-loan more readily than the average frontline employee at a global 1000 company can get a small amount of money for something experimental?

FORBES: How Big Companies Inhibit Employee Creativity: Gary Hamel at Techonomy 2011 (Video)

In fact, the companies perceived as the most innovative are almost never the biggest spenders in our annual Global Innovation 1000 study.

WSJ: The Experts: Patents and Innovation

One has to conclude that despite all of the attention being paid to the benefits of including more and different minds into the innovation conversation, this is not being seen in the experiences reported by the Global Innovation 1000.

FORBES: The Folly of Trying to Spend Your Way to Innovativeness

We studied the successes and failures of more than 1000 leaders from 50 global companies to influence strategically critical behavior change in their companies.

FORBES: Four Reasons Why Leaders Lack Influence

In 1000 western Europe's share of global GDP was 11.1% compared with the Middle East's 8.6%.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

Other results from the global survey show that we broadcast around two zettabytes of data (a zettabyte is 1000 exabytes).

BBC: Global data storage calculated at 295 exabytes

The 1000 Genomes Project in the Cloud offers a showcase for how technology can transform global research around large, heavily used datasets.

FORBES: Bringing the Human Genome Into the Doctor's Office

Given the global PC boom, it's no surprise that computer-related companies are among the 1000's strong performers.

CNN: Inside The 1000 Ranks