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Innovating the Lean Startup Way

Eric Lanke

Elizabeth Weaver Engel of Spark Consulting has another white paper out. This one was co-authored with Guillermo Ortiz de Zarate of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, and it's titled " Innovate the Lean Way: Applying Lean Startup Methodology in the Association Environment. " Wondering how to start?

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Eric Lanke: The Mind of the Community

Eric Lanke

Innovation. At a recent WSAE meeting I was asked to explain what we meant in our white paper on Innovation for Associations when we referred to the "mind of community." Had I had a copy of the white paper with me, I could have quoted from it directly. The added emphasis is mine, not the white papers.

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The Hourglass Blog: The Clinic of Innovation

The Hourglass Blog

The Clinic of Innovation. Heres another fascinating post about innovation from the HBR blog. It describes the first-of-its-kind "Clinic of Innovation" at Oslo University Hospital--an internal unit within the hospital that is set-up to work like an outpatient health clinic.

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Using Empathy Mapping To Create Conference Target Market Personas

Velvet Chainsaw

Unlocking Your Conference Team’s Empathy, Unlocks Innovation. He says it often leads to innovation. When companies allow a deep emotional understanding of people’s needs to inspire them — and transform their work, their teams, and even their organization at large — they unlock the creative capacity for innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog: Taking a Bullet for Your Association

The Hourglass Blog

That we so easily refer to a customer with a bagel punch card or virtual badge as more “loyal” is an example of just how far we’ve allowed corporations to abuse the language around human relationships. Innovation. Principled Innovation. Good and Bad Lessons for Association Innovation. Eric Lanke.

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SCD Group: Why Content is Gold for Associations & Nonprofits

SCD Group

.” Images, text, video, audio, animation and illustration assets can all be reshaped, stretched, mashed up and rendered anew across blogs, websites, video channels, eBooks, white papers, tradeshow displays and more ( see 42 ideas for using content ). Under Armour’s race to discover innovative fitness.

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What Is Your “Customer Journey”?

Spark Consulting

The company then sent references who were neighbors of the author, and a single-click lease tailored to his needs. Journey innovation: continuing to test, learn, and iterate to create new value for the customer and, as a result, for your organization.

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