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Innovation happens at the intersections, at the juxtaposition of the overlooked with the unlikely and the under-considered, where new ideas are blended with old, and old ones are reimagined in new lights. This summer, "Strategy & Innovation" cast a wide net in search of the less publicized ideas in the less trodden places. In this issue, Innosight manager Alex Slawsby reports from the standing-room-only crowd at TEDxBoston on the innovation potential of a social dynamic more powerful than Twitter; the Innosight staff offer a glimpse into the sources of their next new ideas in their own unique summer reading list; and Chairman Mark W. Johnson offers his latest thinking on innovation strategy in the complete version of an article published in a shortened form this month in "Leadership Excellence" magazine. We also draw your attention to a bumper crop of posts from the InnoBlog, from which we’ve culled two particularly clever innovation success stories to jump-start your thinking.

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— Andrea Ovans, Managing Editor