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

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Jeff De Cagna’s latest article on business model innovation, “Designing Association Business Models for the Network Age,” is now available for download. Jeff De Cagna’s latest article on business model innovation, “Designing Association Business Models for the Network Age,” is now available for download.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #1: De-emphasize membership

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The commitment to growing membership lives within the DNA of all associations. Indeed, the phrase, “membership organization” may well be the most orthodox description of an association’s organizational identity. Membership has become a pass-through, with the effect of commoditizing traditional “pay-to-play” arrangements.

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Five reasons why membership is killing association business models: Part II

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Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy. Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who they are and what they do. If you have not done so already, I recommend you read Part I.

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Five reasons why membership is killing association business models: Part I

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Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy. Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who they are and what they do. Reason #1: Membership-centric business models organize all value around the membership relationship.

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Five reasons why membership is killing association business models: Part III

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Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy. Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who they are and what they do. My purpose in presenting this series is not to suggest that membership is evil.

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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 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.