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Innovate Like DARPA

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DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is known for innovation. Plus, we don’t do cutting edge tech R&D innovation. ” Creating “innovation teams” or “innovation initiatives” is definitely a trend in associations. Feature Story innovation Harvard Business Review'

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Innovate the Lean Way

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Join us to learn how you can apply this technique in your own organization to eliminate waste, validate your learning, and innovate faster and more successfully. We’ll be launching the whitepaper with a FREE webinar Wednesday, October 21 at noon ET as part of the YourMemebrship.com Thought Leader Series. and it includes CAE credit!)

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The Inconvenient Truth About Innovation

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Lots of organizations talk about innovation, but few do it well. A week ago, I had the opportunity to attend a free webinar on innovation and culture put on by the smarties over at Talent Anarchy , Jason Lauritsen and Joe Gerstandt. Joe and Jason point out that innovation requires two things: variation and selection.

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Rethinking Revenue: Your Membership Plan

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Hosted by: Atigro, Charles River CFO, Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires, and Social Innovation Forum. The results we achieved to increase memberships. Register for this free webinar here. The post Rethinking Revenue: Your Membership Plan appeared first on Spark Consulting.

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Are You Ready to SURGE?

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We all have insights to offer on how to grow, adjust, adapt and innovate. SURGE 2017 is designed to bring all these challenges and voices together under one virtual roof to have a productive and meaningful conversation around innovation. But the adventure into collaborative innovation begins long before the event.

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Digital Transformation: Where Do I Start?

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Get comfortable with experimenting (for more on how to do this, see the earlier Spark collaborative whitepaper Innovate the Lean Way ). Review your legacy systems and processes (make sure you’ve got the “digitizing” part covered, for Ross/Mocker fans). Recruit your team. Improve your culture management.

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Digital Transformation…

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Innovations in Cause-Oriented Fundraising for Associations (PDF), co-authored with Sohini Baliga, December 2017. Blockchain for Associations: Separating the Hype from the Promise (PDF), co-authored with Shelly Alcorn, CAE, Ubiquity University, April 2019. Steal This Idea!