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Join Jeff for P.I./TMA Resources Executive Breakfast on March 6 in Alexandria, Virginia

Principled Innovation

Participants will learn how to nurture new mindsets and apply “next practices” for more productive and generative business model thinking within their governing groups. From 10 am-12 noon, Jeff will lead a “deep dive” session that will help participants build the capacity of their boards to engage in business model stewardship.

Virginia 100
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Read Jeff De Cagna’s latest article on business model innovation

Principled Innovation

Associations can develop adaptive business models by building out more robust digital platforms capable of integrating various streams of conversation as they are shared across the global public sphere.

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

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For decades, nearly all key business decisions about women’s products and services were made in corporate boardrooms populated almost entirely by men. Reason #4: Membership-centric business models ask members to make the most important decisions about new value creation.

Revenue 100
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Overcoming the association value gap: part II

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Identify value flows– Membership-centric business models typically produce a predetermined bundle of mostly standardized products and services that are pushed out to all stakeholders according to work practices and schedules that best serve the association’s interests.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #1: De-emphasize membership

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Not only is membership orthodoxy deeply inculcated into the mindsets that association leaders bring to their businesses today, but association workflows are supported and reinforced by products, services and advice delivered by consultants, technology companies and other providers operating on the same membership-centric belief system.

Revenue 100
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Three design challenges for 21st century association business models

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Put simply, in her work, Professor Oxman focuses on design as a process of natural discovery, not as a by-product of the designer’s all-knowing vision. Making this same shift in the approach to designing new business models is a necessary, yet non-trivial challenge for associations.