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Top 10 第10名Taco Bell
Competitive Advantage: This American fast food chain has (1)tapped into mobile apps to improve its service from order to pickup.
Next Challenge: Expanding international locations.
競爭力：這家美國墨西哥風味速食連鎖店利用手機app引領另類點餐潮流。
下一挑戰：增加全球分店數量。
Top 9 第9名 Black Lives Matter
Competitive Advantage: Black Lives Matter campaigns for treating African Americans with humanity, having a network across more than 30 chapters worldwide. It's a great force with impact seen at national level.
Next Challenge: State violence. Public lack of understanding of the mission behind the movement.
競爭力：平權團體「黑人的命也是命」爭取非裔美國人的人權，現已擁有全球超過30個分部的運動人士網絡，是足以影響國家的勢力。
下一挑戰：公衆不理解平權運動的使命，是一種國家暴力。
Top 8 第8名 Alphabet
Competitive Advantage: Alphabet's algorithm capability is unrivalled, and it sells the most affordable VR product on the market with Cardboard ($25).
Next Challenge: European antitrust challenges.
競爭力：Google母集團Alphabet的運算能力幾乎無人能敵，它的虛擬實境裝置"Cardboard"(紙板)是市面上價格最實惠的（25美元）。
下一挑戰：歐洲的反壟斷聲浪。
Top 7 第7名 Apple
Competitive Advantage: Apple is influencing consumer technology on a global scale, growing an entertainment business (Apple TV and Apple Music) and breaking into the auto and health care industries.
Next Challenge: Topping its own success.
競爭力：影響全球消費科技，除娛樂事業外，也涉足汽車和醫療。
下一挑戰：研發超越既有成就的產品。
Top 6 第6名 Amazon
Competitive Advantage: Its Amazon Web Services arm is now a multi-billion-dollar provider of cloud-based services for business customers. Amazon will never stop expanding into new businesses.
Next Challenge: Developing unmanned vehicles to deliver packages.
競爭力：價值數十億美元雲端服務的供應商，且將持續擴展、嘗試不同面向的事業。
下一挑戰：無人機運送服務。
Top 5 第5名 Netflix
Competitive advantage: Netflix has (2)beefed up its original content like House of Cards. It is investing in (A)high-profile films with big names, (3)catering to niches with different genres.
Next challenge: Overcoming obstacles in growing global footprint, such as broadband limitations and varying local regulations.
競爭力：增加原創內容如紙牌屋，投資大咖出演的高規格電影，瞄準各種不同愛好的小衆市場。
下一挑戰：擴張全球版圖中，需解決當地頻寬限制和相關規定。
Top 4 第4名 Uber
Competitive Advantage: Being ranked the most valuable startup at more than $50 billion in 2015. Locking in deals to monetize the huge, untapped data trove on its users.
Next Challenge: Heavy competition and regulatory (B)hurdles.
競爭力：身價超過500億的Uber是2015市值最高的新創企業，擅長使用龐大的第一手使用者資料營利。
下一挑戰：與計程車業者的激烈競爭和法規的阻礙。
Top 3 第3名 CVS Health
Competitive Advantage: With nearly 10,000 stores in its network, CVS has launched one-stop health shop, combining pharmacy services, retail, and in-store clinics. Its own Digital Innovation Lab aims at creating smart devices to improve health care.
Next Challenge: Saw a dip in sales in 2015 because it dropped tobacco products and added low-margin generic drugs.
競爭力：美國近萬家分店的知名藥妝品牌，一店結合藥品、販售、診所看診功能，自家數字化創新實驗室研發醫療智慧產品，賦予衛生保健新面貌。
下一挑戰：停賣煙品和使用低利潤藥品導致2015銷售額下滑。
（欲知前2名企業爲何，詳見D11）
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