Associations Now

AUGUST 10, 2015

Associations new to going global can find the process daunting. The result of my portion of the effort is Global Growth Strategies , a report written in conjunction with MCI Group. What’s been your strategy to introduce your association’s work outside the United States? It may be as simple as one letter.

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SCD Group

APRIL 6, 2015

Going digital is not just a strategy to reach millennials, it is a strategy to connect with all age groups. Their mission is to streamline the pizza-making process from the time the order arrives to when the pie is handed off at the customer’s front door. What are your digital strategies? Have you adjusted to that switch?

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 11, 2012

Any answers identified during a planning process are temporary by nature. Over the years, Ive developed a dozen questions to draw on during strategy conversations, ones that while timeless in nature almost always can generate new and timely responses. Labels: facilitation , questions , strategy. 2) Who is our customer? (3)

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 15, 2010

By engaging their own passions, his company created an experience for those visiting the Michelin exhibit at the Detroit Auto Show. Non-profits using revenue-generating programs and other business strategies to achieve their missions. For him, his depression was a necessary process for him to self-actualize. To break a record?

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Instruments like the Team Dimensions Profile or the KAI, Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory , can help assess the contributions individuals can make to the innovation process. Monday, December 05, 2011.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 12, 2015

In my five days in Detroit, I heard a litany of ideas, questions, and discussions about association membership, both in Learning Labs and in informal conversation. Content strategy is more important than ever. Here are four takeaways that stood out, including the definition of engagement and the next big threat to membership stability.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 11, 2012

Your internal processes and procedures for vetting ideas cut off interesting and potentially breakthrough possibilities that the current data doesn’t support or portend? Your dashboard indicators or balanced scorecard become not just metrics for gauging progress, but also mantras by which all strategy and tactics are determined?

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Idea Architects

JULY 20, 2012

Managing participative decision-making, particularly with diverse individuals who may come from various departments or functional areas, requires strong group process and facilitation skills. Regardless of the tools used or process selected, some of the core questions facilitators must help groups answer include: 1. Jeffrey Cufaude.

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Idea Architects

MAY 11, 2012

The process. Sometimes people are committed to the purpose of the gathering, but resist the process. A strategy session with only staff feels different than one including both staff members and board members or other volunteers. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Am I right? Whats your take? How should we proceed?

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Idea Architects

JULY 27, 2012

Instead of thinking of a workshop as an isolated learning experience, a committee meeting as a freestanding discussion, or a strategy session as a distinct and separate event, we need to design and facilitate them as a part of a longer chain of events, conversations, and meaning. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Blog Archive.

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Idea Architects

JULY 9, 2012

The process of making meaning may indeed have changed as individuals approach decision-making opportunities resembling those from the past, but now with a slightly (or significantly) altered framework of what matters most. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Reflection. 28, Columbia, CAI-SC Annual Conference. Blog Archive.

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Beth Kanter

JULY 30, 2012

” This could have created a public relations nightmare (It’s happened in the orchestra world when the Detroit Symphony musicians went on strike and used social media to air their concerns. .” This subtle shift was applied to their social media and communications strategy. dalvarez1 CEO of @ sfgoodwill #sm4np.

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