Top 20 Innovation Articles of February 2016

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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 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are February’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 3,300 – 11,300 page views):

1. Digital Transformation versus Digital Strategy – by Braden Kelley
2. Time for Digital Transformation is Now – by Braden Kelley
3. Adopting Holacracy to Fuel Innovation – by Kim Sykes
4. Why Business Model Innovation is so Compelling – by Jeffrey Phillips
5. The 4 Pillars of a Successful Ideation Program – by Jacqueline Zhou
6. Innovation is Never a Single Event – by Greg Satell
7. Eight Possible Sinkholes around Innovation – by Paul Hobcraft
8. Which are the Most Innovative Companies in the World? – by Paul Sloane
9. What Innovation is and isn’t – by Kevin McFarthing
10. A New Wave of Open, More Social Digital Innovation? – by Paul Hobcraft

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11. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and GATR spells ‘Good Intentions’ – by Peter Doyle
12. Intuit Sparks ‘Start-up’ Fire in its Employees – by Jeffrey Tobias
13. We Need to Innovate the Innovation Process – by Greg Satell
14. Visualizing a Change Standard – by Braden Kelley
15. 11 Unexpected Facts about Managing Employee Idea Programs – by Jacqueline Zhou
16. The Key to Greater Organizational Agility – by Braden Kelley
17. Is Low Risk Innovation even Possible? – by Evan Shellshear
18. Innovation Relevance – by Anthony Mills
19. No Instant Coffee Here: What Starbucks Teaches Us about Timing and Innovation (Part 1) – by Robert F Brands
20. Is Your Organization Set Up for Success? – by Holly G Green

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

• Up Close and Professional with Gap’s Kyle Hermans – by Kim Rivielle
• Collaborate to Innovate – by Peter Cook
• Actions to Reduce Fear and Innovation Failure – by Daniel Nolan
• Innovation is Change – by Braden Kelley

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P.S. Here are links to our online magazine highlighting the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers the last three years:

• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2013
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2014

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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.