Top 20 Innovation Articles of February 2019

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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:

1. How Blockbuster, Kodak And Xerox Really Failed (It’s Not What You Think) – by Greg Satell
2. 8 Design Thinking Problems and How to Fix Them – by Braden Kelley and Adam Radziszewski
3. Six Driving Forces of Innovation for 2019 and Beyond – by Robert B. Tucker
4. The Right Way to Choose the Best Idea – by Mike Shipulski
5. 5 Things Managers Should Know About Innovation (But Most Don’t) – by Greg Satell
6. This Army Colonel Is Helping Large Enterprises Innovate Like Lean Startups – by Greg Satell
7. Cultivating A Culture of Curiosity to Drive More Innovation – by Jesse Nieminen
8. How to Pick the Right Problem – by Arlen Meyers
9. It’s Time To Be Skeptical About The Lean Startup. Here’s Why: – by Greg Satell
10. The Leadership Gap in Innovation – by Jesse Nieminen

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11. Companies Are Failing To Get Value From Innovation – by Adi Gaskell
12. Here’s What You Really Need To Know About Blockchain – by Greg Satell
13. Bringing Agile Innovation into the Stage Gate Process – by Shelly Greenway
14. Why Your Idea is Not Investor-Ready – by Arlen Meyers
15. Four Things Nobody Ever Tells You About Innovation – by Greg Satell
16. Innovation Comes With Messiness. Here’s How to Manage It – by Soren Kaplan
17. Here’s Why You Should Seek Rejection Instead of Avoiding It – by Tom Koulopoulos
18. How to Build Rural Innovation Ecosystems – by Arlen Meyers
19. This Robot Video Will Show You Why It’s So Hard To Predict The Future – by Tom Koulopoulos
20. This 8-Minute President Obama Video Gives a Whole New Meaning to Fake News – by Tom Koulopoulos

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

• What’s Your Problem? – by Mike Shipulski
• These Nine Powerful Technologies Are Now Ready for Rollout – by Robert B. Tucker
• Want To Manage Innovation? Let the Creators Create! – by John Carter
• Why Do We Continue to Tolerate This Type of Discrimination? – by Tom Koulopoulos

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P.S. Here are links to the lists of our Top 40 Innovation Bloggers the last four years:

• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2016
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2017
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2018

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[author image=”https://www.disruptorleague.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Braden-Kelley-70.jpg”]Braden Kelley is a Director of Innovation and Human-Centered Problem-Solving at Oracle, and a popular innovation speaker and workshop facilitator. He is the author of two five-star books, Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire and Charting Change, and the creator of a revolutionary new Change Planning Toolkit™. Follow him on Linkedin and Twitter (@innovate).[/author]