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2014 Internet Report

Spark Consulting

This is a DENSE and long slide deck, but it’s worth checking out the whole thing: Mary Meeker’s 2014 Internet report from dmccarthy104. It’s 2014, people. Great organizations increase revenue, turn a profit, and invest. innovation presentations Mary Meeker Shelly Alcorn' How well does it work?

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Association Brain Food: 10.6.23

Reid All About it

Competing against niche professional organizations, membership and conference revenue has “slowed to a trickle.” The organization’s outgoing treasurer describes the financial situation as “dire.” The writing has been on the wall for a long time—follow the link in the story to the 2014 memo written by a former ED. CMP credit.

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Aiming to Innovate? Look Beyond the Usual Suspects

Associations Now

A 2014 study titled “Integrating Problem Solvers from Analogous Markets in New Product Ideation” lays out the basic concept: Often, good ideas in one field may make sense for another, even if the industries otherwise have nothing in common. (One The post Aiming to Innovate? May all your association’s best ideas feel kinda like that.

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Innovation Isn’t Cool. It’s the Future.

Jamie Notter

I hear very few leaders in organizations argue against the IDEA of innovation. Well, incumbents, it turns out, are not big fans of innovation. Oh, by the way, it’s 2014. Are they thwarting innovation? It’s cool. It’s progressive. All the cool tech companies are doing it. They protect them.

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Game Plan 2014: Seeing Around the Corners

Association Adviser

InfoComm International , the audiovisual association, is one organization that does this very well, Stern said. Tompkins agreed, explaining that many organizations still communicate with members in a segmented fashion—”membership sends X, events sends Y”—and neither consults with the other. Re-thinking membership.

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2014 Session Topics

ChatterBachs

Jay Daughtry is available to facilitate staff retreats and team-building exercises in 2014. Exercises that focus on customer service, communication, storytelling, collaboration, innovation, and related topics include but are not limited to: Five Objects. Organization Idol. Workplace Innovation Trends. The Tattoo Question.

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What I’m Reading

Spark Consulting

MGI’s 2014 Membership Marketing Benchmark report is out. What makes an effective organization? Do you know the content marketing 4-1-1 ? One, you should download it ASAP. Two, Associations Now has been doing a series of posts on the results, and I love the point of this one: “ you have to eat your vegetables.”