Remove executive membership

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Asking different questions: MMCC 2013 edition

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” “Do we need a new membership model?” ” “Is membership dead?” Over many decades, associations have invested considerable time and energy, as well as financial resources, in optimizing the work of selling membership to drive their existing membership-centric business models.

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Overcoming the association value gap: part I

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This data point is significant because it is the clearest evidence yet of the value gap that continues to hamper membership-centric association business models. According to the most recent edition of ASAE’s Operating Ratio Report ( ORR ), membership dues account for an average of 38 percent of total revenue for all associations.

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Jeff De Cagna serving as curator for ACE Symposium on July 12

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Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE , chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, is serving as curator and provocateur for the inaugural Association Chief Executives (ACE) Symposium , to be held on Friday, July 12 at The Gannett Building in McLean, Virginia. an executive search and consulting firm located in Northern Virginia.

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Read Jeff De Cagna’s latest article on business model innovation

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The article appears in the August/September 2012 issue of Association Magazine, the official publication of the Canadian Society of Association Executives. The article appears in the current issue of Association Magazine, published by the Canadian Society of Association Executives.

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Overcoming the association value gap: part II

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In Part I of this series earlier this month, I identified the association value gap as an underlying structural problem within membership-centric business models. Unfortunately, since membership-centric business models wrap all value into membership, associations typically have few options for filling the gap that do not depend on membership.

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Three design challenges for 21st century association business models

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Association boards, CEOs and senior executives will need to answer a wide variety of questions as they embark on the work of developing new business models to enable their organizations to thrive over the next decade and beyond. The practical challenge: Making the shift from membership-centric to value creation-centric business models. .

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Associations Unorthodox e-book available on August 8

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” In the e-book, Jeff challenges boards, CEOs, C-Suite executives and other key contributors to break free of the association community’s orthodox beliefs and make six radical shifts toward the future to help their organizations thrive in the face of relentless societal transformation: De-emphasize membership.

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