Here’s a look back, in no particular order, at the top 80 articles I wrote about innovation:
- Chief Error Generation Officer: Accelerating Learning
- To innovate, just try it!
- What is the purpose of innovation?
- Critical thinking is an inspiration starter, not a hope killer
- Why you should tell your colleagues how you come up with your ideas
- What if you looked for “what not to do” ideas?
- What did you learn about innovation during 2012?
- Why do trendspotting at all?
- A powerful innovation breeding habit you can do right now
- Get good at learning to learn
- Why aren’t we funding management innovation?
- What specific behaviors should be rewarded to drive innovation?
- Innovation challenges in laggard markets
- A signal that you won’t ever innovate
- Surprise and Delight: Two words that enable a memorable customer experience
- What question would you ask your company to spark innovative thinking?
- What are the big unanswered, but answerable, questions when it comes to innovation?
- The first innovation principle non-innovators must embrace
- Is the CEO responsible for product failure and wins?
- Powerful Strategic Thinking technique for non-strategic thinkers
- How can my company use social networks for innovation?
- 5 Basic principles of competitive advantage
- Subtract to innovate
- Innovation: You have to own it before you can do it
- How do you encourage employees to share ideas?
- 10 TED talks that will help you become an innovative leader
- Why is innovation so hard for large companies?
- How can a business differentiate without changing the product itself?
- The 6 most important questions every strategist must own
- How does your company celebrate innovation?
- Create your own definition of innovation
- The Golden Rule of Strategy: Do what others are not willing to do
- 6 Attributes of an effective strategy
- 3 fundamental lessons about change that strategists must understand
- Hassle statements reveal innovation opportunities
- The most important innovation technique available to an innovation practitioner
- Why working on your weakness is a strength
- Management Innovation at DJO Global Tijuana
- Adoption: The hardest part about innovation
- What is Pixar’s secret to consistent success?
- Get good at learning to learn
- How do you begin to develop an innovative mindset?
- Start out with a purpose, not a plan
- How to boost your creative capacity
- Falling prey to a company’s marketing = no value
- When should you begin trend-spotting?
- 3 Ways to help customers win
- What’s the best way to manage creative personalities at work?
- To find new market opportunities and grow, study non-consumers
- The Table of Strategic Elements: Visualize and Create New Strategies
- Job swapping: The new innovation tactic
- Are Startup Incubators too focused on Technology?
- Why Mexico will continue to be a laggard in innovation
- Crappy innovations make way for better innovations
- Create for others or create for yourself?
- Customers will replace R&D as the main source of new ideas
- Innovation and Diversity
- Can you create value if you’re not curious?
- Mandatory Innovation
- Ubiquitous to Anomaly: A useful way to begin the creative process
- What 7 calls to GoDaddy can teach you about Innovation
- A sneaky way to unearth innovation opportunities
- When employees do not feel understood they resist change
- How to turn Evernote into an Insight Bank
- Real-time strategy is driven by Action Oriented Learning
- Are you applying as fast as you are learning?
- What if you did things wrong?
- Leading with questions
- Every strategy should Make a Difference
- Why don’t more people disrupt themselves?
- Engage in sci-fi thinking to understand what makes people tick
- Guestology: How Disney anticipates guests needs
- MBA in Curiosity
- 3 cognitive limits we must overcome to think differently
- Why creating new categories is so successful
- How are you over-delivering?
- To innovate come up with your own unique WHY
- 4 Innovation Lessons from the Miami Heat
- Innovation starts at the edge not the mainstream
- Why asking ‘WHY’ is so damn important
Massive Year Jorge! You are my nomination for Innovation Excellence Top 40 for not only the breadth but more importantly the razor sharp depth! To top it all off you have been an amazing contributor to the overall innovation community. Kobe & Steve NAsh rolled into one! Enjoy Vegas and come back stronger in 2013…
Hi @marktruelson,
Thank you for the kind words. I really appreciate it.
I hope we can collaborate on something of mutual interest in the coming year.
Best to you in 2013!
Cheers,
Jorge