Year 2011 in Innovation

Wish you and your families a very Happy New Year 2012.

In recent years I have been sending out this compendium to people who have interest in the field of Innovation, Creativity and Design. The intent remains to further the understanding of this vital topic and evangelize the spirit of innovation. Here are the 120 stories from 2011. I hope you find this useful. 

I will be grateful to you if you could pass on this compilation to your friends and colleagues. That will be a true new year gift for me. 

Sources: BBC, Booz & Co., Boston Consulting Group, Business Today, BusinessWeek, CNN World, Economic Times, Fast Company, Financial Post, Financial Times, Freakonomics, Harvard Business Review, HBR Blog, IBM, Inc. Magazine,  Industry Week, Knowledge @ Wharton, McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey Quarterly, MIT Sloan Management Review, Nature, NY Times, Scientific American, Technology Review, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Wired.

Also do check out the archived compilations here. 

Best of 2010

Best of 2009

Dec’ 11 $35 Tablet from India Lots of India's Innovation is Invisible Test Your Innovation IQ The Next 5 in 5: IBM Predicts Future Innovation Tournament @ P&G A World of Jugaad Surviving 2012: An Action Plan for Year Head Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point Creativity Linked to Rule Bending 2011 in Reflection: The Nature	Nov' 11 India's Innovation Stimulus Why Social Innovation needs Design Thinking How Pursuit of Profit Kills Innovation A One-Two Punch to Foster Creativity When Good Companies have Bad Ideas 8 Best Innovation Ideas from Around the World Inventing the Collaborative Workspace Social Innovation: A Matter of Scale Rise in Intellectual Property is Changing the Face of Innovation 3 Biggest Barriers to Innovation and How to Smash Them
Oct' 11  Global Innovation 1000: Why Culture is the Key Steve Jobs 1955- 2011: All about Steve  Do Patents Kill Innovation 3M Bets of India- Style Innovation 10 Innovation Myths Crowdsourcing a Cure to Breast Cancer 10 Steps for Creating an Open Innovation Culture What Google's VP Marissa Mayer Does as an 'Idea Connector' WSJ 2011 Innovation Awards Innovating to Zero CO2	Sep' 11  A Three- Box Approach to Managing Business Model Reinvention  China in Transition The Age of Customer- Innovator Lessons from Asian Innovators: AsiaNBC From Social Network to Collaboration Network Netflix's Bold Disruptive Innovation Innovating with Services Why we Desire but Reject Creative Ideas China as Innovation Nation Should you Reward Bad Ideas?
Aug' 11  7 Immutable Laws of Innovation How to Prepare for a Black Swan After the Tsunami The Future of Innovation Management: The Next 10 Years How to be like Apple The Elusive Big Idea Innovative Ways of Storytelling 5 Ways Standardization can Lead to Innovation Why Playing Games Could be Next Big Thing for Business What Innovations Would Make Cities More Livable	Jul' 11  How will you Measure your Life: Clayton Christensen Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factor The Paradox of Samsung's Rise Leaders find Creativity in Chaos We Share Too Much and It's Stifling Innovation The Best Strategy for Big Innovation: Know Your Limits Montessori Build Innovators Can Innovation be Reduced to a Process? Think Like a Designer Women Enhances Team Intelligence
Jun' 11  IBM @ 100: Ideas that Shaped a Century TR 35 Winners: Innovators under 35 Forbes World's Most Innovative Companies Global Innovation Interest Index The Global Innovation Index 2011: Most Innovative Countries Nokia's Epic Fall Resource Efficiency: The Sixth Wave of Innovation Innovating in Uncertain Markets: 10 Lessons in Green Tech The Business Models Investors Prefer Y Combinator is Boot Camp for Startups	May' 11  3M's Open Innovation Salman Khan: The Messiah of Maths How to Fire Up the Innovation Engine Stanford's Fresh Entrepreneurship Factory Lessons from Zuckerberg's  Personal Innovation Lifestyle How Facebook Hacks its Way to Innovation 5 Common Mistakes Business Leaders Make About Innovation Bamboo Innovation (Chinese Lessons) Future Cities of Innovation Unthinking Machines: Future of AI
Apr' 11  Sparking Creativity in Teams: An Executive Guide Why Most Product Launches Fail The Paradox of Open Innovation: Intellectual Property How the Ivy League is Killing Innovation 8 Ways to Democratize Experimentation How to Institutionalize Inspiration in Your Company Larry Page on Innovation  Innovation Lessons from NY City Design Fundamentals from MIT  The Evolution of Web Design	Mar' 11  EmTech India 2011: Top Indian Innovators Seven Steps to Better Brainstorming Global Cities of the Future 9 Ways to Test an Entrepreneurial Idea How eBay Developed a Culture of Experimentation 7 Deadly Sins that Choke Out Innovation Can Innovation be Disciplined Without Killing it?  Teaching Kids Thinking Executing an Innovation Strategy The China 2.0 Innovation Dilemma
Feb' 11  2011 Most Innovative Companies: FastCompany 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2011: Technology Review Cisco's Virtual Management Lab Why Creative People can Loose Out on Leadership Position A Quirky Way of Innovating Open Innovation @ GE Embedding Innovation in Leadership Four Principles of Crafting Innovation Strategy All Innovation is Personal Chris Anderson: Crowd Accelerated Innovation	Jan' 11  The HBR Agenda 2011 Unleashing Innovation in China The Next Big Thing in Managing Innovation Hotbeds of Innovation Larry Page's Google 3.0 Richard Branson on Intrapreneurship Innovation @ Microsoft How to Transform Good Ideas into Great Research? New Business Models in Emerging Markets   Innovation: Made in China