Top 20 Innovation Articles – June 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 June’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 2,700 – 5,000 page views):

1. Is Innovation Simple? – by Kevin McFarthing
2. Inside Johnson & Johnson’s Innovation Center – by Braden Kelley
3. Leading for Innovation in Extreme Uncertainty – by Janet Sernack
4. Making Ideas Real, Simplicity & TED Talks – by Tim Kastelle
5. Five Tech Megatrends that are Changing the Game – by Robert B Tucker
6. Can Your Organization Dance with StartUps? – by Julie Anixter
7. People Who Kill Innovation – by Stephan Vincent
8. 50 years at GORE: leadership in innovation technology & corporate culture – by Laura Hernández Garvayo
9. 30 Ways to Inspire Divergent Thinking – by Saga Briggs
10. Pain is a Great Motivator for Innovation – by Gijs van Wulfen

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11. Disrupting Mentoring through Personal Advisory Boards – by Ilene Fischer
12. Coke Thinking Beyond Traditional Product Lifecycle – by Braden Kelley
13. Can Money Buy Innovation? – by Eugene Ivanov
14. London Tech Startup scene: Where is the bloody innovation? 5 reasons startups fail – by Nicholas Skillicorn
15. Integrating Intelligence and Intuition – by Kobi Gershoni
16. Hyper Media and a Daily Voice – by Lou Killeffer
17. 2014 GE Innovation Barometer Sees Disruption-Ready Mindset – by Julie Anixter
18. Domino’s Steady Pizza – Value Access Example – by Braden Kelley
19. Ideas Crowdsourcing to Solution Specific Search, OI Platforms are Soaring – by Nicolas Bry
20. Tapping African Mobile Crowd using Low Mobile Tech, by Margaux Pelen – by Nicolas Bry

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

• Making Makers – by Braden Kelley
• The Kindle Smartphone is a Game Changer – But Not As You Think – by Adam Hartung
• Everyone Needs to Be a Futurist
  – by Reuven Gorsht
• Continuous Improvement – personal and process excellence – by Ram Lonkar

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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 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
• 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.