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How Technology is Transforming Strategy

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For decades, the practice of strategy has been about the application of static planning frameworks to the task of solving mostly understandable business problems. Designing strategy as learning enables associations to imagine, anticipate and capitalize on technological disruption, instead of always lagging far behind it.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #2: Crowdsource strategy

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In a volatile and uncertain world, the real work of strategy is not more centralized planning, but purposeful and rapid learning, which associations can pursue more effectively by engaging their stakeholders through crowdsourcing. This week, I look at Shift #2 on crowdsourcing strategy. The era of strategic planning is over.

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

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NEW DESIGN APPROACH: To address this issue and engage the ideas, insights and passions of a more diverse set of contributors, especially stakeholders who are outside the traditional boundaries of their organizations, associations need a rapid learning approach to strategy-making, such as crowdsourcing.

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Associations Unorthodox e-book available on August 8

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Crowdsource strategy. Jeff De Cagna said, “Over the last ten years, I have collaborated with a wide variety of associations in the areas of strategy, innovation, governing and the impact of new technologies on the future of associating. Eliminate budgets. Go all in on digital. Collaborate everywhere.

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ASAE12 Making Innovation Happen workshop agenda released

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Participants also will have the opportunity to develop a strategy for making innovation happen in their associations. Making Innovation Happen Survey , which was conducted in June 2012. The survey results helped to shape the workshop’s content.

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Associations Unorthodox #5: Collaborate everywhere

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Yet while having a central location to house face-to-face staff and voluntary activity offers certain benefits, the association headquarters also can be the physical embodiment of the bureaucratic inertia and risk aversion that too often slows the pace of organizational progress, especially in the areas of strategy and innovation.

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Empathy, new value creation and the stakeholders of the future

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Business Model Innovation Making Innovation Happen Strategies for Progress #sixseriousideas' SED is a term I coined to inspire association leaders to shift their conversations about the future in a more generative direction. Here is what I wrote about SED [.]