Top 20 Innovation Articles – November 2012

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At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our FREE Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine (PDF for printing or downloading to iPad, Kindle, Nook, etc.) and email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are October’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 3,500 – 7,400 page views):

1. 7 Ways to Outsmart Your Brain and be More Innovative – by Stephen Shapiro
2. New Online Marketing Strategy – Predict Surprising Google Updates – by Amanda DiSilvestro
3. Booz & Company 2012 Global Innovation Study – by Barry Jaruzelski
4. Innofacturing, The Real Innovation in Manufacturing – by Geovanny Romero
5. Push or Pull Marketing for Innovations? – by Braden Kelley
6. The Best Innovation Strategy is Searching for Needs – by Gijs van Wulfen
7. Yes, but what about leadership? – by Josie Gibson
8. Leadership, Influence & Relationships – by Mike Myatt
9. Innovation Cannibalism – by Peter Cook
10. Innovation Spaces – A New Frontier in Collaboration – by Elisa O’Donnell
11. 10 Brainteasers to Stretch Your Brain – by Holly G Green
12. Buncee, Arturi, Curie and Discovery – by Julie Anixter
13. Why I Still Think Microsoft Will Win with Windows 8 – by Greg Satell
14. 10 Good Reasons Not to Trust Your Brain – by Holly G Green
15. Collaborative Innovation replaces Brainstorming – by Juergen H Staeudtner
16. Asking the Right (innovation) Questions – by Michel van Hove
17. Is There a QOOQ In Your Kitchen? – by Matthew E May
18. An Innovation Strategy is Critical – by Braden Kelley
19. How Innovation Processes Began at Shell and IBM – by Geovanny Romero
20. Manoj Fenelon Imagines the Future for PepsiCo – by Lou Killeffer

BONUS – Here are three more strong articles published the last week of the month:

• There’s No Innovation Without Experimentation – by Jeffrey Phillips
• Are You Afraid to Innovate? – by Holly G Green
• 5 Principles of Peak Performance – by Greg Satell

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Braden Kelley is a popular innovation speaker, embeds innovation across the organization with innovation training, and builds B2B pull marketing strategies that drive increased revenue, visibility and inbound sales leads. He is currently advising an early-stage fashion startup making jewelry for your hair and is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons. He tweets from @innovate.