Top 100 Innovation and Transformation Articles of 2021

2021 marked the re-birth of my original Blogging Innovation blog as a new blog called Human-Centered Change and Innovation.

Many of you may know that Blogging Innovation grew into the world’s most popular global innovation community before being re-branded as InnovationExcellence.com and being ultimately sold to DisruptorLeague.com.

Thanks to an outpouring of support I’ve ignited the fuse of this new multiple author blog around the topics of human-centered change, innovation, transformation and design.

I feel blessed that the global innovation and change professional communities have responded with a growing roster of contributing authors and more than 15,000 newsletter subscribers.

To celebrate we’ve pulled together the Top 100 Innovation and Transformation Articles of 2021 from our archive of over 700 articles on these topics.

We do some other rankings too.

We just published the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021 and as the volume of this blog grows we may bring back a monthly ranking to complement this annual one.

But enough delay, here are the 100 most popular innovation and transformation posts of 2021.

Did your favorite make the cut?

1. All Leadership is Change Leadership – 2. Next Generation Loyalty – Part One – 3. Visual Project Charter™ – 35″ x 56″ (Poster Size) and JPG for Online Whiteboarding – 4. Where Do Innovation Strategies Usually Go Wrong? – 5. Black Friday Shows No Loyalty – 6. The Fail Fast Fallacy – 7. Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2020 – 8. What is Human-Centered Change? – 9. 10 Clever Ways to Stop Ideation Bullies from Hogging Your Brainstorming Sessions – 10. 50 Cognitive Biases Reference – Free Download – 11. Free Customer Experience Maturity Assessment – 12. The Human-Centered Change Methodology – 13. Innovation vs. Invention vs. Creativity – 14. America Drops Out of the Ten Most Innovative Countries – 15. The One Movie All Electric Car Designers Should Watch – 16. Nine Innovation Roles – 17. No Regret Decisions: The First Steps of Leading through Hyper-Change – 18. Free Innovation Maturity Assessment – 19. Myths About Physician Entrepreneurs – 20. Human-Centered Change – Free Tools – 21. The Five Keys to Successful Change – 22. Discipline Has a Role in Innovation – 23. Advances in the Management of Worthless Meeting Syndrome – 24. 550 Quote Posters – 25. The Jobs-to-be-Done Playbook – 26. We Need a More Biological View of Technology – 27. Free Human-Centered Change Tools – 28. Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire – 29. The Pyramid of Results, Motivation and Ability – 30. Experience Thinking – The Next Evolution for Design Thinking – 31. Scaling Innovation – The What, Why, and How – 32. Charting Change – 33. The Experiment Canvas™ – 35″ x 56″ (Poster Size) – 34. To Change the World You Must First Learn Something About It – 35. Digital Transformation Virtual Office Hours – Session One – 36. Lead Innovation, Don’t Manage It – 37. Are doctors wasting their time on entrepreneurship? – 38. What is design thinking? – EPISODE FIVE – Ask the Consultant – 39. Zoom Tutorial – Amazing New PowerPoint Background Feature – 40. COVID-19 Presents an Opportunity to Create an Innovation Culture – 41. Increasing Organizational Agility – 42. Innovation Requires Going Fast, Slow and Meta – 43. Remote Project Management – The Visual Project Charter™ – 44. Is innovation everyone’s job? – 45. What is your level of Innovation Maturity? – 46. Flaws in the Crawl Walk Run Methodology – 47. Innovation Teams Do Not Innovate – 48. We’re Disrupting People Instead of Industries Now – 49. Don’t Forget to Innovate the Customer Experience – 50. Change Management Needs to Change – 51. Everyone hates to fail, why do you? – 52. Going with the Flow – 53. Can You Be TOO Strategic? – 54. Competing in a New Era of Innovation – 55. Fast Company is Wrong – 56. A New Age Of Innovation and Our Next Steps – 57. Avoid the Addition Bias – 58. Visualizing Project Planning Success – 59. Innovation Ecosystems and Information Rheology – 60. Rise of the Evangelist – 61. Creating 21st Century Transformational Learning – 62. Re-Skilling and Upskilling People Teams – 63. Creating a Movement that Drives Transformational Change – 64. How to Scale Your Culture – 65. A Trigger Strategy for Driving Radical, Transformational Change – 66. Human-Centered Innovation Toolkit – 67. You Must Play and Experiment to Create and Innovate – 68. Managing Both the Present and the Future – 69. Why Change Failure Occurs – 70. Developing a Future-Fitness Focus – 71. Using Intuition to Drive Innovation Success – 72. The Academic Intrapreneur Dossier – 73. The Rise of Employee Relationship Management (ERM) – 74. An Example of Successful Alchemy – 75. The Dreaded Perfect Entrepreneur – 76. Should intrapreneurs really ask for forgiveness and not permission? – 77. Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow – 78. Importance of Long-Term Innovation – 79. Co-creating Future-fit Organizations – 80. What you should learn from the Google Health failure – 81. Teaching to Win the 4th Industrial Revolution – 82. Catalysing Change Through Innovation Teams – 83. Innovation and the Scientific Method – 84. Being Too Focused on the Test is Dangerous – 85. Architecting the Organization for Change – 86. Healthcare Jugaad Innovation of a 17-Year-Old – 87. New Capability Mapping Tools for Business Architects – 88. How can I create continuous innovation in my organization? – EPISODE TWO – Ask the Consultant – 89. Thank You for Your Thinkers50 Nominations – 90. Preparing for Organizational Transformation in a Post-COVID World – 91. Why Change is Hard – 92. Building a Better Change Communication Plan – 93. What is digital transformation? – EPISODE THREE – Ask the Consultant – 94. ACMP Standard for Change Management® Visualization – 35″ x 56″ (Poster Size) – Association of Change Management Professionals – 95. Borrow an Idea from a Different Field – 96. How to Go From Nail It to Scale It – 97. Innovation in the time of Covid – Satisfycing Organizations – 98. Sickcare Culture of Conformity versus a Culture of Creativity – 99. Start 2021 with a Free Innovation Audit (Now in Portuguese or English) – 100. Outsmarting Those Who Want to Kill Change – Curious which article just missed the cut? Well, here it is just for fun:

101. Why so much medical technoskepticism? – These are the Top 100 innovation and transformation articles of 2021 based on the number of page views. If your favorite Human-Centered Change Innovation article didn’t make the cut, then send a tweet to @innovate and maybe we’ll consider doing a People’s Choice List for 2021.

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