ABSTRACT
Welcome back explorers! What an amazing journey! We hope we inspired you to become an innovation leader. In closing, I’d like to reflect on a few more interesting innovations. In my classes, I often ask a reflective question. What’s the oldest company in the world? Often, I get answers such as IBM, Ford, or GE. Although they are considered successful established companies in modern times, some of the oldest companies still in existence are actually over 1,000 years old. In fact, we probably don’t really know what the oldest company in the world really is because trade is historically such an important human innovation.
