Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2013

We launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2013 was our second full year of operations. To celebrate we’ve pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2013 from our archive of over 6,000 innovation-related articles from more than 300 contributing authors.

Click the link if you missed last year’s 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 10 as part of our Innovation Excellence Weekly email and FREE MAGAZINE, so an annual Top 100 seems like a logical fit.

We lost a bit of data to corruption in some of the web server statistics files, but with the annual data that remained and our Top 20 lists from the months that were lost, we’ve pieced together this list.

Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are the 100 most popular innovation posts of 2013 (each receiving 5,500 – 44,500+ page views):

1. 8 Step Process Perfects New Product Development – by Robert F Brands
2. 10 Emerging Educational Technologies & How They Are Being Used Across the Globe – by Saga Briggs
3. Managers are for Efficiency, Leaders are for Innovation – by Jeffrey Phillips
4. 30 Ways To Promote Creativity in Your Classroom – by Miriam Clifford
5. How Dreamworks, LinkedIn and Google Build Intrapreneurial Cultures – by John Webb
6. Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012 – by Innovation Excellence
7. McKinsey Innovation Report – what stands out – by Paul Hobraft
8. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): Why It’s A Good Idea – by Miriam Clifford
9. Neuroeducation: 25 Findings Over 25 Years – by Saga Briggs
10. Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2012 – by Innovation Excellence
11. 4 Innovation Leadership Strategies for 2013 – by Soren Kaplan
12. Sell Microsoft NOW – Game over, Ballmer loses – by Adam Hartung
13. “A Little Night Music” with Clayton Christensen – by Nicolas Bry
14. What is innovation? – by Greg Satell
15. Characteristics of Highly Creative People – by Jeffrey Baumgartner
16. 5 Trends That Will Drive The Future of Technology – by Greg Satell
17. Tony Hsieh #BIF6 Summit: Zappos.com success story revealed – by Saul Kaplan
18. Top 50 Twitter Innovation Sharers – by Innovation Excellence
19. Business lessons from David Bowie – creativity, collaboration & innovation – by Richard Hughes-Jones
20. My Top 10 Innovations of All Time – by Braden Kelley



21. Booz & Company’s 2013 Global Innovation 1000 Study – by Barry Jaruzelski
22. 15 Reasons Why Daydreamers are Better Learners – by William Koch
23. How Can We Increase Insight? – by Tim Kastelle
24. Jimi Hendrix for Innovators – by Dimis Michaelides
25. Best Practices for Innovation from Microsoft – by Braden Kelley
26. 7 Ways to Make it Safe for Others to Innovate – by Jorge Barba
27. Your Phone is Now Your Bank: Are You Ready for Disruptive Innovation? – by Holly G Green
28. Innovation: a Case for Entitlement (really!) – by Deborah Mills-Scofield
29. Are We Teaching Kids To Be Too Dependent on Technology? – by Julie DeNeen
30. Innovation Drives Economic Growth – News from Nesta – by Paul Hobcraft
31. Top 10 Innovations of the Year: 2013 – by Nicholas Skillicorn
32. Hiring Creative Employees – by Jeffrey Baumgartner
33. XConomy Forum Sound Bites – PRESENTATION
34. Managing Innovation in the Trenches – by Geoffrey Moore
35. The Seven Essential Characteristics of Innovative Companies – by Jeffrey Baumgartner
36. Idea Challenges – you get what you give – by Jan Martijn Everts
37. How to Build an Innovation Culture – by Greg Satell
38. Study Demonstrates the Link Between Collaboration & Growth – by Paul Sloane
39. The Portfolio is the Innovation Dashboard – by Kevin McFarthing
40. Secret to Innovation Success Revealed! – by Braden Kelley



41. Where Should Marketing Innovation Come From? – by Braden Kelley
42. Top Ten Causes of Innovation Failure – by Paul Hobcraft
43. What Pixar Shorts Can Teach Us About Innovation – by Susana Gonzalez
44. Apple’s Innovation Problem – by Greg Satell
45. Greenovate! City of Curitiba, Brazil Rapid Transit System – by T. McNally, R. Jonash and H. Patel
46. GE Global Innovation Survey – Leaders Feeling Effects of Innovation Vertigo – by Paul Hobcraft
47. Language Is Killing Our Ability To Innovate – by Lyden Foust
48. Avoiding Innovation Debt – by Peter Bell
49. What Sort of Questions Should You Ask of Big Data? – by Rob Toledo
50. Low cost, High value – boarding pass to disruption! – by Nicolas Bry
51. Zombie Management: 5 Tips to Keep Your Team from Going Brain Dead – by Holly G Green
52. The Hult Innovation Olympics: How Verizon, Natura, and others are Tapping Student Teams to Innovate – by Ronald Jonash
53. Why Design Thinking Will Fail – by Jeffrey Tjendra
54. Forget Brainstorming – Use PAINstorming for breakthrough innovation – by Soren Kaplan
55. Innovators Challenge Orthodoxies: Elon Musk – by Rowan Gibson
56. Visualizing World Economic Forum Outcomes – by Braden Kelley
57. 2014 Top Trend Sites – by Gijs van Wulfen
58. A Brilliantly Simple Way to Boost our Creativity Рby J̩r̫me Provensal
59. 100 Things to Watch in 2013 – PRESENTATION
60. Flipping Business Models Around – by Braden Kelley



61. Google Glass & Wearable Innovation – by Patrick Meyer
62. 16 Innovative Ways to Use Crowdfunding for Education – by Miriam Clifford
63. Innovation Chat with Scott Anthony – by Evodio Kaltenecker
64. 50 Ideas To Bring Entrepreneurship Into The Classroom – by Lisa Chesser
65. GE Takes a Quirky Approach to Innovation – by Braden Kelley
66. Why Businesses That Neglect Big Data Will Be Left Behind – by Greg Satell
67. Innovate by Design – by Bradley (Woody) Bendle
68. Does Innovation Need a Purpose? – by Mari Anixter
69. 9 Innovation Concepts & Methodologies to Embrace, Consider or Rethink – by Stefan Lindegaard
70. 20 Ways to Get Feedback on Your Biggest, Baddest, Boldest New Idea – by Mitch Ditkoff
71. Ideation and the 90:10 Rule – by Matthew Griffin
72. Your Personality, Creativity and Innovation – by Lynda Koster
73. Time For An Education System Makeover – by Holly G Green
74. Managing Innovation – by Greg Satell
75. Why Every Business Should Consider Innovation Teams – by Greg Satell
76. The Future of TV – by Greg Satell
77. How Renaming the C-Suite Can Spark Innovation – by Luis Gallardo
78. Leadership Means Facing Challenges Head-on – by Mike Myatt
79. The Eight Dimensions of a Brainstorm Session – by Mitch Ditkoff
80. Setting the Nine Innovation Roles Free – by Braden Kelley



81. Companies Connect Same Dots in Different Ways – by Braden Kelley
82. World Economic Forum – Innovation Imperative from Davos – by Paul Hobcraft
83. Innovation and Serendipity – by Ralph Ohr
84. Are Stereotypes Keeping Women Away From Science? – INFOGRAPHIC
85. Balancing Innovation via Organizational Ambidexterity – by Ralph Ohr and Frank Mattes
86. Five Types of People Who Kill Innovation – by Stefan Lindegaard
87. The Jobless Innovation Era – by Paul Hobcraft
88. Disruptive Innovation Theory Revisited – by Christensen, Hatkoff and Kula
89. Using a War Room to Create Pervasive Innovations – by Matthew Griffin
90. The Crowd Computing Revolution – Part One – by Braden Kelley
91. 10 Apps for Creativity – by Tomislav Buljubasic
92. Innovation Toolkit – by Geovanny Romero
93. Success Practices in Co-Creation (enter the wild west!) – by Doug Williams
94. 15 Education Technologies To Check Out in 2013 – by Julie DeNeen
95. Five Free Nine Innovation Roles Gifts – by Braden Kelley
96. The Open Innovation Business Model – by Larry Huston and Tim Munoz
97. 5 Best Practices to Drive Innovation – by George Labovitz PhD and Victor Rosansky
98. Embrace Self-Disruption Using the Business Model Canvas – by Doug Williams
99. Entrepreneurs Define Risk Differently – by Deborah Mills-Scofield
100. Achieving Innovation Resonance – by Braden Kelley

Now, these are the Top 100 innovation articles of 2013 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 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.