Top 20 Innovation Articles – February 2013

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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 February’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 3,400 – 20,000 page views):

1. Jimi Hendrix for Innovators – by Dimis Michaelides
2. Characteristics of Highly Creative People – by Jeffrey Baumgartner
3. My Top 10 Innovations of All Time – by Braden Kelley
4. 10 Apps for Creativity – by Tomislav Buljubasic
5. 15 Education Technologies to Check in 2013 – by Julie DeNeen
6. Midnight Lunch – How Thomas Edison Collaborated – by Julie Anixter
7. The Promise and Peril of 3D Printing – by Melba Kurman
8. Will China 2.0 Out-Innovate Your Company? – by Rowan Gibson
9. Open Innovation and Distributed Business Model with API – by Nicolas Bry
10. 10 Reasons Companies Fail at Business Model Innovation – by Saul Kaplan

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11. What I Like About Making Maps: Visual Superpowers are Required – by Scott Williams
12. Six Techniques to Sharpen and Expand Your Innovation Instincts – by Bradley (Woody) Bendle
13. Birth of a New Job Type! Arise co-creation manager – by Yannig Roth
14. Why Managers Fear Innovation – by Gijs van Wulfen
15. True Innovators – 10 Insights That Define Them – by Stefan Lindegaard
16. The 4 Things You Need to Know to Make Any Business Successful – by Greg Satell
17. Design & Innovation with Robert Fabricant, frog design – by Lou Killeffer
18. The Crowd Computing Revolution – Part Three – by Braden Kelley
19. The Crowd Computing Revolution – Part One – by Braden Kelley
20. Key Issues in Innovation Management – by Ralph Ohr and Tim Kastelle

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

• Why Design Thinking Will Fail – by Jeffrey Tjendra
• Making Time for Innovation – by Kevin McFarthing
• How Small Innovation Teams Hit the Nail – by Nicolas Bry
• Why the Front End of Innovation is Different – by Jeffrey Phillips

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P.S. We’ve created a new downloadable, printable, portable FREE electronic innovation magazine for your iPad, Kindle, Nook, or other tablet, notebook, Mac, or PC. Here are links to our last ten issues:

• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 12
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• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 15
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 16
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 17
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 18
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 19
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 20
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 21

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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.