Top 20 Innovation Articles – March 2014

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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 10 as part of our FREE Innovation Excellence Weekly magazine (PDF for printing or downloading to iPad, Kindle, Nook, etc.) and email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are March’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 3,000 – 8,200 page views):

1. Role of Personal Branding in Innovation – by Braden Kelley
2. 45 Design Thinking Resources for Educators – by Saga Briggs
3. Design Thinking, a pharmaceutical puzzle – by Peter Cook
4. The Bleeding Edge of Innovation – by Sarah Miller Caldicott
5. New Problems, New Approaches: The Rise of the Generalist – by Reuven Gorsht
6. If You Want to Innovate – Read! – by Jeff Rubingh
7. Infographic – Innovation Rankings – USA and the Rest of the World – INFOGRAPHIC
8. Is Social Media Unhealthy? – INFOGRAPHIC
9. PLM Success Factors: Great Expectations, Mixed Results – by Amy Kenly
10. Innovation and the Art of Recognizing Hidden Criteria – by Kate Hammer

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11. Finding Opportunities for Startups to Disrupt Incumbents – by Hutch Carpenter
12. The Current State of Open Innovation – by Kevin McFarthing
13. Crowdsourcing Across the Digital Divide – by Jessica Day
14. What Makes a Great Innovation Story? – by Julie Anixter
15. Innovation Lessons from the Fall of Giants – by Paul Sloane
16. Research: Innovation Communications Breakdowns – by Doug Williams
17. Five Mistaken Beliefs About Innovation – PRESENTATION
18. An Innovation Dilemma and Question from Michael Dell – by Chris Beswick
19. Innovation For Your Employees – by Sabina Stoiciu
20. Why Chromebooks are Disruptive Innovations and What Microsoft Should Do About It – by Jake Nielson

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

• Shell is Open for Innovation – by Kevin McFarthing
• What’s in Your OODA Loop – by Matthew Fritz
• The Big Data ‘Opportunity Area’ for Innovation – by Katie Konrath
• Why Corporate Innovation Is So Difficult – by Jeffrey Phillips

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• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012
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• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 35
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 36
• Innovation Excellence Weekly – Issue 37
• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 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.