"The beauty of Queens Plaza is that you have 350 years of cutting-edge enterprise in just one spot," Mr. Singleton said.
The company with the highest index rating, a 90, is H.J. Heinz -- no one's idea of a cutting-edge enterprise, but a venerable producer of familiar foodstuffs like ketchup and pork and beans.
This week, I'll examine a new role that is highlighted by this launch and that will likely become a vital component in creating cutting-edge enterprise software solutions.
Prime Numbers, the Manchester-and-Berlin-based label run by Trus'me (born David Wolstencroft), however, is a cutting edge enterprise, having propelled the careers of Actress and Motor City Drum Ensemble and wooed remixes from international techno deities Marcel Dettmann and Alan Fitzpatrick.
Likewise, the iconic Red October Chocolate Factory, having sat empty and foreboding on Bolotny Island in central Moscow for years, houses cutting-edge cultural enterprises like the Baibakov Art Project and the Pobeda Gallery.
Piotr Uklanski After about a decade with the cutting-edge Gavin Brown's Enterprise, the Polish-born artist Piotr Uklanski is one of several artists to end up recently (surprise!) at Gagosian.
So your start-up has cutting-edge technology for the enterprise?
Fortunately, cutting-edge technologies can empower enterprises to accelerate that journey.
As the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, advanced data analytics, and other cutting-edge technologies move into the enterprise mainstream, CIOs have better tools to help take their companies into adjacent industries even to the point where they may have to cannibalize parts of their own business model.
"We are a group of hardcore technologists who aspire to bring true cutting-edge technology from research, consumer, enterprise software and many other industries, much of which have already changed your daily life, to the financial industry which is still dominated by error-prone processes and lacks big data analysis capabilities," he adds.
One avenue for expansion for these firms facing cuts at home is international growth, but again, the image of globalised commercial enterprises utilising cutting-edge business practices to thrive is somewhat out of focus.
