Association Briefings

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Your members - especially your digital-first millennial and Gen Z members - aren’t just wanting an individualized digital experience. Marketers can now use it to build even stronger relationships with members and prospects, while improving member acquisition and retention efforts and other marketing processes. They expect it.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 16, 2018

If you plan to shop for a new learning management system (LMS) in the coming year, WBT Systems explains why you may want to work with an LMS consultant during the requirements, selection, and/or implementation process. Now for the main event: free professional development events for the association community. Get It Write ).

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Reid All About it

APRIL 20, 2018

Social media metrics that matter. Sprout Social ). Now, the main event: free professional development events for the association community. Learn how to optimize your email invitations, use videos to drive registration, more effectively leverage social media, and build a long-term audience. Lunch provided.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Most of these consultants are trying to sell innovation as a toolbox, but as former BusinessWeek writer Helen Walters aptly points out: Innovation cannot be reduced to a process. Monday, September 12, 2011. There is No Recipe for Innovation. image source. Labels: Design , Innovation , WSAE.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Close collaboration of designers and engineers, and deep involvement by designers in working with materials and manufacturing processes. Obsessive attention to detail, supported by relatively long gestation cycles and an iterative, prototype-driven process. Developing Millennial Leaders.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. If you can confidently answer "yes" to that question, you get to move onto the second question, discussed in Part 2 , which is "Do you have a defined process for how innovation will function in your association?" Time in employee schedules for engagement in the innovation process; 2. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. If you can confidently answer "yes" to that question, then ask yourself the next question: Do you have a defined process for how innovation will function in your association? Its important to note that there is probably not one universal innovation process that will work for every association.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. But couple that policy with a transparent process by which ideas are selected and resourced for proper execution, and you may be able to create an environment where both sides of innovation occur. If youre lucky, maybe your contribution to the process can represent less than 20% of your time.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 16, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Im pushing for more connection and transparency with the members throughout the development process, but as the project moves forward Im discovering something very similar to brand exceptionalism infiltrating our thinking. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Companies tend to focus far more attention on improving the front end of the innovation process, the creativity. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media. Sunday, November 14, 2010. Innovation = Creativity x Execution. But the real leverage is in the back end.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Its an interesting approach and the post contains a lot of thoughtful suggestions for designing a successful innovation process. But I want to focus in on the underlying concept--that for an innovation process to succeed, it must align with the organizations culture and way of thinking.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. I couldnt help but notice the similarities between this list and the Principles of Innovation recently drafted by the WSAE Innovation Task Force, including "an innovation culture led from the top of the organization" and "the commitment of resources to a process of innovation." Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Because I understand that, I hope I can reach out to the younger professionals and get them involved – not just by providing professional development for them, but by getting them involved in the process of creating the professional development they want. Tuesday, February 15, 2011. at 8:35 PM.

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The Hourglass Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. ” So “the silent, sullen boy at the mall’s game store may be next in line for an underemployed, lonely adulthood if we don’t teach him how to maintain effective social contacts with others.” Labels: Millennial Perspectives , Social Media. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 5, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Most would argue that these desires to be valued and to contribute to something larger than themselves are Millennial values, but I see them as more universal--something common to most of humanity. No one person--not even the leader--can predict where the process of innovation is going to take them.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 25, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. In my experience, people who go into the intersection with that kind of clarity just wind up crashing into other people, hurting themselves or others in the process. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media. We're All Millennials Now. Does anyone?

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 21, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. The work of the WSAE task force is predicated on the idea that innovation is a process —one that relies and people and creativity—but a process nonetheless, and like any process it needs to be clearly defined, resourced and continually improved in order to work. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Designing a process by which innovation will occur in your association. Providing the necessary resources (time, talent and money) for your innovation process to function effectively. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media. Monday, January 31, 2011.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. The Board has recently culminated a process in which a new organizational mission and vision have been identified, and are now contemplating a name change in order to better reflect the changes in their environment and how the association is repositioning itself to expand and better serve its membership base.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 22, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Dont go through the usual committee development, project approval, budget allocation process that bogs down so many associations. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The Catch-22 of Innovation. Communication. Encore Careers.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 10, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. A working innovation process is going to generate more ideas that can be acted upon. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media. Tuesday, August 10, 2010. The Role of Trust in Innovation. That’s unavoidable. Communication. Encore Careers. Generation Basics.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. He talks at length about how innovators at IBM created a revolution in computer processing power by implementing this simple formula, and I think the ideas and methods described are directly transferrable to the association environment. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 17, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Inspired by the dedicated, defined and resourced “innovation function” that exists in many for-profit companies, we are examining a series of case studies that profile these processes. The problem to be addressed by the innovation process was clearly defined. Saturday, July 17, 2010.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. And like a lot of manufacturing companies, they operate very close to the margin, using a variety of human and mechanical systems to strip inefficiencies and wasteful practices out of the process of making the product and shipping it to the customer. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media. Sunday, January 16, 2011. A Prescription for Innovation. For an introduction to this dialogue, go here. Guilty as charged. • Innovation is using technology to streamline operations and deliver new services. at 8:34 PM.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 20, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. “For HD and Blue Ray DVD HDMI audio I do not understand if any post processing is done on the 5.1 Project managers are particularly accustomed to using process maps, but as you note, we aren't doing it enough in associations. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 26, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. The methods these companies used for attaining this understanding varied, but the knowledge, once attained, was used continually throughout their innovation processes and served as a constant guide for their successful decision‐making. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. But as Mayos CFI illustrates, it was also very much a process and resource issue for your organization. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media. Thursday, April 21, 2011. Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Letting people explore is one thing.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. If your leadership--however leadership is defined in your association--isnt on board with innovation, no innovation process you try to implement will succeed. Please comment if youd like to get plugged into our process. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. And in this struggle for unity, they validate what Jeff is saying about sameness: Sameness also shapes the typical association value creation process itself: everyone must be treated the same, receive the same benefits and participate in the same activities. Developing Millennial Leaders.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 29, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Limited resources Innovative organizations commit resources to the process of innovation. Complex organizational structures Innovative organizations employ a process of innovation that is nimble and which offers clear decision points. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 28, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. These ready-made networks of key stakeholders are a clear advantage for developing a successful process of innovation within an association, as they can be continually leveraged for suggesting, selecting, testing, promoting and, ultimately, using the resulting innovative products and services.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. The group I was in focused on co-creation of programs and participatory decision-making--essentially having staff work hand-in-hand and continuously with members throughout the process of identifying, developing and delivering new programs and services. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 18, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Ill read it right now; or (3) Oh man, thats going to require some thought and some processing. Labels: Blogging , Governance , Social Media. Developing Millennial Leaders. Millennials. Social Media. We're All Millennials Now. Monday, July 18, 2011.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar. They will expect early in their careers to take part in the decision making process. About a thousand similar statements are regularly promulgated to describe Gen Y/Millennials. social media. (3). Thursday, September 24, 2009. The Workplace Has Been Just Another Brick in the Wall.

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