Blog review 2024

Best posts on innovation, strategy, and growth.

30 Dec 2024 — 5 min read

It's this time of the year again. When I sit down in silence and count everything I've published throughout the year, and then look a bit at analytics. I'm always surprised when the time comes; not so much that year ended but as much how quickly it ended. If that is not a reminder to be careful with what little time we have, I do not know what is.

Existential ruminations aside, in 2024 I have published 195 blog posts. I find that particularly interesting because that makes this the most productive blogging year I've had since I begun tracking numbers in 2020. At the same time, I felt like I haven't written that much more... Which is exactly why annual review is helpful to put things into perspective.

Let's dig into numbers.

Top three topics remain innovation (511 articles), strategy (340 articles), and leadership (239 articles). Besides blogging, this year also published a good deal of video content:

42 episodes of The Puzzle Podcast with Isaak Tsalicoglou. In each episode we address a difficult business question for ten minutes. Of course, we do so while speaking from personal, first-hand experience, and with emphasis on the practical and applicable matters.
25 episodes of Wednesday Innovation Q&A with Bruno. In each episode I address a specific question from practice. Although each question comes from a specific individual, I always strive to provide an answer with broad applicability.

Further, my articles have been published in various outlets: Viable Innovation Teams (The Innovator's Handbook 2024), Managing innovation at scale (HR World Magazine), The value factory: Five ways to supercharge your innovation process using lean practices (theleanmag), and Using Games and Simulations to Facilitate Generative Conflict (Challenging the Future with Lean, Springer).

Below are top five posts based on number of page views, featuring some familiar titles, followed by five personal favourites from this year.

Top 5 posts in 2024—my personal favourites

With so many to choose from, selecting top five personal picks was quite a challenge!

#1 Systems and superstars

In this article I paint a picture of why organisation's long-term success with innovation hinges on its ability to continuously gets better at innovation by investing in all innovators, instead of "just" high-performers.

#2 Opportune opposing opinions

The title still makes me giggle. Who doesn't like alliteration? Poetry aside, ability to respectfully disagree is pivotal for developing truly innovative projects and ventures.

#3 The power of innovation filters

Great innovation system ensures only the right ideas end up in front of the right people. That can be achieved through disciplined use of well defined filters.

#4 Innovating without limits

Patterns, constraints, and rifts—three things to scan for when exploring broad opportunity spaces.

#5 Kayfabe

When leaders inhale too much of their own exhaust gases then things tend to go to badly. For everyone.

What will I write about in 2025?

Regular programming will continue in the form of blogging, Bruno Unfiltered™ and The Innovator's Attitude™ newsletters, and regular commentary on LinkedIn. Besides that, most of my writing time will go to finishing the doctoral thesis.

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