Good Reads on Innovation #22

Here comes a list of blog posts and articles on innovation that I have enjoyed in the last couple of weeks. I hope you will enjoy this as well. You can follow me on Twitter: @lindegaard

Welcome Failure by Paul Sloane http://bit.ly/bPy6Zd

Consulting companies use social media tools to develop thought leadership positions by Bloom Group http://bit.ly/awnXDf

Lessons from Google Wave and MSFT Kin by Scott Berkun http://bit.ly/dtAxZZ

Beware the Open Innovation Backlash by Roland Harwood http://bit.ly/aiJ6q5

Are You Squandering Your Intelligent Failures? by Rita McGrath http://bit.ly/aOiSnQ

Innovate, Yes, but Make It Practical by Steve Lohr http://nyti.ms/bLH2U9

Open vs. Closed Innovation: How Much Evil Is Just Right? by David Rogers http://bit.ly/cstQCd

Five Warning Signs Your Innovation Efforts Are Going Off the Rails by VJ Govindarajan http://bit.ly/9mPe3S

Unilever, Cisco, Whirlpool: Communication in Open Innovation by Andrea Meyer http://bit.ly/aR1MvV

Innovating When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: The View from PARC by Mark Bernstein http://bit.ly/95lwGO

Innovation for Now and for the Future by Tim Kastelle http://bit.ly/cj6xre

Everything Has a Personality by Stephen Shapiro http://bit.ly/dqDiAq

Are You Shifting Into High Gear with Social Media? by Holly Green http://bit.ly/9HzECJ

Prepare Your Innovation Elevator Pitch by James Todhunter http://bit.ly/bT6ghr – preparation and planning matters

Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn by Darren Rowse http://bit.ly/c2vgIq

When Failure Is Intolerable by Scott Anthony http://bit.ly/cJjVgO

Co-creation, open innovation key for brands by WARC http://bit.ly/b8EQ2Q

How Much of a Relationship Do Customers Actually Want? by Hutch Carpenter http://bit.ly/9uEwiF

Open Innovation Done Right – a series of videos by Monitor Group http://bit.ly/9GClHg