Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2015

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2015 was our fourth full year of operations. To celebrate we’ve pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2015 from our archive of over 7,500 innovation-related articles from more than 400 contributing authors.

Click the link if you missed the last three years’ lists:

• Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2014
• Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2013
• Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2012

We do some other rankings too. At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month and we also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our Innovation Excellence Weekly email and FREE MAGAZINE, so an annual Top 100 seems like a logical fit.

Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are the 100 most popular innovation posts of 2015 (each receiving 7,400 – 56,000+ page views):

1. 15 Surprising Discoveries About Learning – by Saga Briggs
2. Research: Employee Engagement in the Innovation Process – by Eugene Ivanov and Doug Williams
3. How Design Thinking Uses Story and Prototyping – by Chad McAllister
4. The Real Benefit of Design Thinking – by Michael Graber
5. Creating a Corporate Culture for Design Thinking – by Chad McAllister
6. How Big Ideas Are Built – by Rowan Gibson
7. 10 Most Powerful Uses of Technology for Learning – by Saga Briggs
8. Design Thinking – by Shawn Nason
9. Design Thinking: a tested method for creating breakthrough innovation – by Michael Graber
10. Apply the 5 Steps of Design Thinking to Solve Customer Problems – by Chad McAllister
11. Design Thinking in Lima Peru – by Scott Underwood
12. Healthovate Cincinatti: How Konica Minolta Co-creates Solutions for the Future – by Guillermo Sander
13. Ten Ways to Reduce Your Failure Rate of Innovation – by Gijs van Wulfen
14. Top 10 Reasons Not to Innovate – by Braden Kelley
15. Best Motivational Quotes to Inspire – INFOGRAPHIC
16. 15 Quotes to Spark Creativity – by Gijs van Wulfen
17. The Problem with Corporate Innovation – by Jeffrey Phillips
18. Agile Change is Coming – by Braden Kelley
19. A Power Tool for Creative Thinking – by Rowan Gibson
20. Iterate, Iterate, Iterate, Innovate – by Paul Sloane



21. 8 Secrets for Internal Startup Success – by Robert B Tucker
22. Do CEOs See Innovation as a Priority? – by Braden Kelley
23. Business Model Innovation – by Nicolas Bry
24. All Aboard the Sensor Revolution: How the Internet of Things is Driving Innovation – by Robert F Brands
25. Distinct Approaches to Business Model Innovation – by Ralph Ohr
26. Hiring the Right Chief Innovation Officer – by Braden Kelley
27. What Innovation Can Learn From Science – by Kevin McFarthing
28. The Rise of the Corporate Innovation Unit – by Paul Sloane
29. The Top 5 Brand Strategy Trends of 2015 – by Elizabeth Cagen
30. 6 Processes for Generating Ideas for Radical Innovations–Design Thinking Series – by Chad McAllister
31. Away With the Innovation Funnel Process – by Yoram Solomon
32. The Five Hottest Innovation Trends – by Robert B Tucker
33. Innovation Requires Experimentation – by Janet Sernack
34. The Internet of Things Needs Innovators With These Three Traits: Sound Like You? – by Andrew Timm
35. Communication in Innovation – by Nicolas Bry
36. A New Approach to Business Model Innovation – by Gijs van Wulfen
37. Mobile Technology May Not Always Be the Answer – by Robert Conrad
38. Separate Innovation from Entrepreneurship! – by Yoram Solomon
39. The Neuroscience of Storytelling – INFOGRAPHIC
40. One Size Doesn’t Fit All Innovation – by Ralph Ohr



41. How Power is Shifting from Corporations to Platforms – by Greg Satell
42. Cloud Computing is Dead, Long Live the Cloud! – by Braden Kelley
43. Re-Framing Innovation in 2015 – How iteration really does transform fear of failure – by Mukesh Gupta
44. Why is Jack Ma More Inspiring than Steve Jobs? – by Thibaud Andre
45. The Deeper Side of Big Data – by Lynda Koster
46. Triumph of the Innovation Economy – by Rowan Gibson
47. 7 Characteristics of Highly Successful Innovators – by Eddie Newquist
48. Who is Responsible For Innovation in My Company? – by Yoram Solomon
49. Six Essentials to Cultivating an Innovation Culture – by Robert B Tucker
50. Innovation and Organizational Culture – by Ralph Ohr
51. How to boost creativity in your organization? – by Stephan Vincent
52. Debunking Disruptive Innovation – Why Disruptive Innovation is NOT a Strategy – by Soren Kaplan
53. Six Levels of Leadership – by Fabiaan Van Vrekhem
54. The Future of Money – by Greg Satell
55. Peter Thiel’s 4 Rules For Creating A Great Business – by Greg Satell
56. 7 Innovations that Will Shape Business in 2015 – by Luis Gallardo
57. A Look At PepsiCo’s Recent Open Innovation Efforts: #CSReport2015 – by Yannig Roth
58. What We Can Learn About Innovation From Crows – by Braden Kelley
59. Most Innovation is Becoming Business Model Innovation – by Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Phillips
60. Don’t Try to Develop Disruptive Innovation – by Kevin McFarthing



61. Mark Polson, Creativity and Estee Lauder – the IX Interview – by Julie Anixter
62. When It Comes to Innovation, Spontaneity Beats Structure – by Kevin Daly
63. Innovation Outperformers – Highlights from New IBM Research – by Braden Kelley
64. Why Marketers Are Key Players in the Business Innovation Game – by Elizabeth Cagen
65. Organizational Models for Breakthrough Innovation – by Ralph Ohr
66. How Wells Fargo Learned to Innovate Around the Customer – by Greg Satell
67. The Wow, the How, and Incubating Big Ideas – by Mark Payne
68. Pete Foley Q&A: 4 Questions on Innovation – by Tyler Hagy
69. Abundance: A Landscape for Change in Healthcare – by LeAnna J. Carey
70. Chief Digital Officer – Mastermind of the Digital Transformation – by Nicolas Bry
71. How to Create Customer Engagement by Providing a Unique Experience – by Stephan Vincent
72. Nerd Fight – Microsoft Hololens vs. Google Glass – by Braden Kelley
73. Robert Tucker’s 10 Most Innovative Companies – by Robert B Tucker
74. 10 Ways to Discover What You Don’t Know that You Don’t Know – by Jorge Barba
75. Myth Busted: Does Creativity Need Resources? – by Yoram Solomon
76. Changing the World – Step One – by Braden Kelley
77. The Top Three Enemies of Innovation – Waiting, Waiting, Waiting – by Mike Shipulski
78. Don’t Fail with Innovation Failure – by Kevin McFarthing
79. Culture Knocks Out Strategy – by Patrick Willer
80. 20 Cognitive Biases that Impact Innovation – by Pete Foley



81. 8 Widening Cracks in our Innovation Process – by Paul Hobcraft
82. 2015: The Year The Cloud Bursts – by Greg Satell
83. Enterprise Innovation Fights Back – by Matthew Griffin
84. An Innovative Approach to Customer Experience Design – by Chris Thomason
85. Three Key Disruptors to Business as Usual – by Janet Sernack
86. Is Gamification Right for Your Company? – by Robert Conrad
87. Spread Your Love of Innovation with Flipboard – by Innovation Excellence
88. Good Value Proposition Design – Interview with Alex Osterwalder
89. What’s Your Innovation IP Strategy? – by Jackie Hutter
90. The Greatest Innovation in Olympic History – by John K. Coyle
91. Innovation Building Blocks – by Brett Trusko
92. 3 Major Problems with Web Development Projects – by Melissa Burns
93. What Stops Us Moving Innovation into our Core? – by Paul Hobcraft
94. Who is Responsible for Social Collaboration? – by Patrick Willer
95. 16 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging Your Effort To Learn – by Saga Briggs
96. Thought Leader Wanted – by Braden Kelley
97. The Dynamics of a Creative Team – by Yoram Solomon
98. Change Your Questions, Change the World – by Janet Sernack
99. 25 Disruptive Technology Trends 2015 – 2016 – by Brian Solis
100. Most Companies Suck at Innovation Because… – by Braden Kelley

Now, these are the Top 100 innovation articles of 2015 based on the number of page views. If your favorite Innovation Excellence article didn’t make the cut, then add it to the comments and maybe we’ll consider doing a People’s Choice List for 2015.

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Braden Kelley is a popular innovation speaker, builds sustainable innovation cultures, and tools for creating successful change. He is the author of the five-star book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire and the creator of a revolutionary new Change Planning Toolkitâ„¢. Follow him on Twitter (@innovate) and Linkedin.