Top 20 Innovation Articles – January 2014

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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 January’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 3,000 – 10,000 page views):

1. Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2013 – by Multiple Authors
2. Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2013 – by Innovation Excellence
3. 100 Things to Watch in 2014 – PRESENTATION
4. Four Types of Innovation and the Strategic Choices Each One Represents – by Jake Nielson
5. Two Views on Innovation at Google – by Braden Kelley
6. Debunking the Left Brain and Right Brain Myth – by Nicholas Skillicorn
7. Failure Forums: Complexity Theory and the Role of Failure in Driving New Business Models – by Matt Hunt
8. Why do Supervisors Block Innovation? – by Paul Sloane
9. An Innovator’s Reading List For 2014 – by Jason Williams
10. Blended Action Learning Meets Innovation – by Jonash, Patel, O’Keeffe and Warsaw

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11. Free eBook: The Power of Co-Creation in Healthcare Innovation – by Doug Williams
12. Every Business will be Disrupted by Open Technology in 2014 – by Greg Satell
13. What Bell Labs Taught Us about Innovation – by Hutch Carpenter
14. Starbucks Retail Innovation in Switzerland – by Braden Kelley
15. 99 Facts on the Future of Innovation for 2014 – PRESENTATION
16. Selling YOUR Innovation – by Ken Smith
17. What is Deeper Learning? – by Braden Kelley
18. Innovation Thoughts for 2014 – by Scott Bowden
19. 2014 Careers: Stop Playing Chess, Start Playing Risk – by Steve Todd
20. Innovation: Are You a Gardener or an Architect? – by Tim Kastelle

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

• For Innovation: Culture Trumps Office Design – by Jorge Barba
• Big Data in Education: Big Potential or Big Mistake? – by Saga Briggs
• Need Innovative Employees? Hire a Vet – by Mick Simonelli
• 2014: Your Most Innovative Year? – by Harvey Wade

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Editor’s Note: Innovation Excellence is open to contributions from any and all innovation professionals out there (practitioners, professors, researchers, consultants, authors, etc.) who have a valuable innovation insight to share with everyone for the greater good. If you’d like to contribute, create an account in the community and then use the ‘Add Content’ option in the site’s main menu.

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 28
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 29
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 30
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 31
• 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.