Top 20 Innovation Articles of July 2017

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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 July’s twenty most popular innovation posts:

1. Why Sustainability is Your Next Big Innovation Opportunity – by Chris Sherwin
2. True Corporate Innovators Aren’t Who You Would Expect – by Michelle Tabart
3. Summer Reading List: 12 Books Can Help You Change the World – by Greg Satell
4. The Lean Startup is Changing The World – by Greg Satell
5. 20 Reasons Why Your Company Won’t Change – by Matthew E May
6. Seven Good Reasons Not to Innovate – by Paul Sloane
7. Learning Innovation Through Doing it with a Practical Innovation Project Process – by Darin Eich
8. Embedding Innovation into Your Organization – by Michael Graber
9. Success in 15 Personality Traits – by Tom Koulopoulos
10. Getting Clear on Your Strategy – by Matthew E May

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11. What Mike Tyson and the Stoics Teach Us About Innovation – by Scott Bowden
12. How IoT is Transforming Unexpected Industries – by Greg Satell
13. Harness Collective Genius: Develop learning agility! – by Janet Sernack
14. Integrating Lean Startup and Stage-Gate – by Chad McAllister
15. Is Innovation Unreasonable? – by Jeffrey Phillips
16. Using Cross-Functional Teams to Drive Innovation and Improvement – by Daniel Lock
17. As Robots Take Over We Will Need More Innovators – by Paul Sloane
18. Relating to the New Innovation Era – by Paul Hobcraft
19. Companies don’t innovate, people do. – by Mike Shipulski
20. Charting Change for Product Managers and Innovators – by Chad McAllister

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

• Moroccan Innovation – by Scott Bowden
• When Going in New Directions, It Helps to Have a Map – by Matthew E May
• 4 Steps to Build an Innovation Ecosystem – by Chad McAllister
• MIT Shows How To Run Hackathons – by Adi Gaskell

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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 Toolkit™. Follow him on Twitter (@innovate) and Linkedin.