Top 20 Innovation Articles – February 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 February’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 3,000 – 6,000 page views):

1. Coca-Cola Looking to Bring Some Innovation to Your Home? – by Braden Kelley
2. 35 Psychological Tricks To Help You Learn Better – by Saga Briggs
3. How Do You Measure Innovation? – by Soren Kaplan
4. How NOT to Innovate – by Jeff Rubingh
5. Inspiring Innovation Films: a Top Ten List – by Gregg Fraley
6. Gamification of the Innovation Process – by Michael Allen
7. Open Innovation: Getting Started – by Nicolas Bry
8. How Data Driven Companies Outperform – by Greg Satell
9. Why Simulation is the Future of Innovation – by Greg Satell
10. What Howard Stern Can Teach Us About Innovation – by Geoff Nesnow

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11. Interview: Gijs van Wulfen – by Mari Anixter
12. Innovation Lessons from World Bank, Disney, Nasa, AstraZeneca – by Robert F Brands
13. The New Secret Inside of Innovation – by Patrick Meyer
14. Are Customers Valuable to Innovation? – by Hutch Carpenter
15. How Performance Recognition Impacts Innovation and Employee Engagement – PRESENTATION
16. Take Action To Change Innovation Culture: Part 4 – by Kevin McFarthing
17. Take Action To Change Innovation Culture: Part 3 – by Kevin McFarthing
18. Collaborative Innovation – by Lou Killeffer
19. Google + Nest: Benefit Trumps Fear – by Reuven Gorsht
20. Is innovation going to the dogs? – by Braden Kelley

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

• The Creativity Method of The Beatles – by Drew Boyd
• The Men Who Stare at Goats – and Innovate – by Braden Kelley
• Why So Many Brainstorming Sessions Fail – by Mitch Ditkoff
• New Research on Communicating Innovation – by Doug Williams

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• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 29
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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
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2013

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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.