Principled Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2013

· Governing is about nurturing shared responsibility for stewardship– While boards occupy the primary role in governing, they must conduct their work in ways that include other contributors and encourage them to accept responsibility for collaborating to build a stronger organization.

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2013

Join Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation on Wednesday, March 6 for the P.I./TMA Association boards have a unique and critical responsibility for building their organizations to thrive over the next decade and beyond, especially in the realm of business model sustainability. Bonus Deep Dive Session (10 am-12 noon).

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Principled Innovation

JULY 11, 2012

During the more than twenty years I have worked in and with associations, it is my guess that organizations throughout our community have committed millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of hours of staff and voluntary leader time to generate tens of thousands of pages of strategic plans and related documents.

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Principled Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, has been elected chair of the RedRover Board of Directors. They perform the organization’s most important work: helping defenseless animals across the country who need our kindness and love everyday.

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Principled Innovation

APRIL 2, 2013

It is an invention designed to create artificial predictability and a sense of security for risk-averse organizations. To make this happen, boards, CEOs, C-suite executives, and other contributors need to think beyond orthodoxy and embrace a 21st-century sensibility in their pursuit of business model innovation.

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Principled Innovation

JULY 24, 2012

Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who they are and what they do. Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy.

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Principled Innovation

JULY 10, 2012

Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, has been elected to the American Tinnitus Association (ATA) Board of Directors. ATA, located in Portland, Oregon, exists to cure tinnitus through the development of resources that advance tinnitus research.

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Principled Innovation

AUGUST 7, 2012

” 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. Eliminate budgets.

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Principled Innovation

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

This digital openness sheds new light on the orthodox beliefs and insular thinking at play inside all legacy organizations, including associations. Boards, CEOs and other leaders must now reimagine the practice of strategy if they are going to build truly remarkable organizations for the future.

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Principled Innovation

AUGUST 28, 2012

Despite its inherent contradictions and obvious weaknesses, the work of strategic planning continues unabated in associations, perhaps because boards and CEOs have been told at every opportunity their organizations must have a strategic plan.

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Principled Innovation

JULY 17, 2012

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. Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy.

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Principled Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

As a general rule, associations are risk averse organizations, instinctively conservative in every way, especially with their financial resources. The elimination of budgets will make it far simpler for associations to adapt to the demands of rapid innovation today and going forward. The Problem. The Opportunity. Additional Thoughts.

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Principled Innovation

AUGUST 21, 2012

Indeed, the phrase, “membership organization” may well be the most orthodox description of an association’s organizational identity. To have the chance to flourish going forward, associations must pursue the complex yet essential work of business model innovation. The Problem. The Opportunity. Additional Thoughts.

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Principled Innovation

JULY 31, 2012

Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who they are and what they do. For some organizations, these investments have produced a meaningful return. Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy.

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2013

These are high impact ideas for association leaders who are serious about taking their organizations to the next level. At the heart of this fresh way of thinking about business model innovation is the value conversation.

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 16, 2013

Join Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation on Friday, March 8, 2013 in Denver for a full-day workshop on Building Better Boards , presented by the Colorado Society of Association Executives. Registration for the workshop is now open.

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Principled Innovation

OCTOBER 10, 2012

For their organizations to succeed over the next decade and beyond, therefore, association boards must reassert their strategic legitimacy, or risk losing the support of the next generation of stakeholders. It is a challenge associations must resolve to overcome. They should focus instead on improving board performance. Additional Thoughts.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 25, 2013

My article “ Trapped in the Past ,” which appears in this month’s issue of Associations Now , challenges association boards to look beyond the richness of their own association membership experiences to recognize the unintended negative consequences of their organizations’ membership-centric business models.

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2013

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 designers make the important decisions, and then seek feedback from external stakeholders.

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Principled Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2012

Each shift deals with an important area of association management in which doing what has always been done too often trumps the hard work of building our organizations to thrive, even right now when the latter is both an urgent priority and a non-trivial concern.

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