Top 20 Innovation Articles – December 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 December’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 3,000 – 13,500 page views):

1. Neuroeducation: 25 Findings Over 25 Years – by Saga Briggs
2. Top 10 Innovations of the Year: 2013 – by Nicholas Skillicorn
3. 2014 Top Trend Sites – by Gijs van Wulfen
4. Five Types of People Who Kill Innovation – by Stefan Lindegaard
5. A World of Knowledge: 50 Different Views of Education – by Lisa Chesser
6. IBM Reveals 5 Smart Technology Trends for Next 5 Years – by Greg Satell
7. Why Innovation Programs Fail – by Tim Meaney
8. Lean Strategy for Startups: it’s not sexy but it is important – by Richard Hughes-Jones
9. Frugal Innovation: can we Jugaad innovation over here? – by Nicolas Bry
10. Does Strategy Need Innovating? A primer on Lean Strategy for Startups – by Richard Hughes-Jones

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11. Entering the Zone of Innovation Uncertainty – by Paul Hobcraft
12. Google and the Search for Innovation – by Megan Totka
13. Defining Innovation in One Word – by Jason Williams
14. 2014: A Magic Tipping Point for Innovation Change? – by Paul Hobcraft
15. Nokia is dead, Long Live Finland’s Innovation – by Nicolas Bry
16. A Christmas Carol as a Parable for Innovation – by Kate Hammer
17. Desperately Seeking WOW – by Donna Sturgess
18. Seeking a Chief Innovation Officer or an Alchemist? – by Luis Solis
19. The Slippery Slope of Not Asking Why – by Deborah Mills-Scofield
20. Artificial Creativity – Rise of the Idea Machines – by Nicholas Skillicorn

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

• Starting an Innovation Culture? 3M, Google, Intuit, Netflix did it and so can you… – by Leila Durmaz
• Innovation Mentoring Lessons Learned – by Steve Todd
• Innovation Opportunities for 2014 – by Julie Anixter and Braden Kelley
• Innovation Year-End Performance Review – by Scott Bowden

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• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 28
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• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 32
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 33
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 34
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 35
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 36
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 37

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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 has recently begun distributing Innovation eLearning and is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons. He tweets from @innovate.