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Group Offers Benchmarking Benefits Through Tiered, Online Program

Associations Now

The TCA Profitability Program, run using the inGauge online platform, is an outgrowth of the organization’s Best Practice Groups, which were established in 2002 to connect eight to 14 peer companies and allow them to share their successes and challenges to help each other improve.

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Facilitation Friday #9: Build Capacity to Accomplish More

Idea Architects

To prevent such dependence from developing, facilitative leaders regularly engage groups in debriefing their meetings and projects to determine what lessons can be learned and what adjustments need to be made in the distribution of responsibilities. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Crowdsourcing.

Idea Architects

If youre interested in trying this approach, two free or low-cost online software options are IdeaScale and Skild. Former Harvard Business School professor Gary Hamel is one of the thought leaders behind the MIX, which describes itself as "an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. Dec 2002 (6).

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Labor Tensions Cause Port Headaches for Retail, Manufacturing Industries

Associations Now

The projected cost, per day, of a 10-day port shutdown on the West Coast, according to an estimate supplied by global management consulting firm Kurt Salmon on behalf of the National Retail Federation and the National Association of Manufacturers. In 2002, after a 10-day work stoppage at the ports, President George W.

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Cargo Plane Crash Revives Pilot Fatigue Questions

Associations Now

In the rule, the FAA said cargo airlines were excluded because the projected benefits were based largely on preventing potential loss of life, and cargo carriers had less to gain. However, a study published by the U.K. IPA went so far as to sue the FAA last year over the exemption for cargo airlines.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

The drop in the cost and effort required to capture, edit, and deliver video has dramatically increased our ability to use it for developing educational content. For learning businesses, the rise of SaaS has meant better, lower-cost access to a wider variety of learning platform options. The E-learning Cost Cliff.

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Big Data: Big Headache or Big Opportunity for Associations?

Association Adviser

Please contact us ASAP if your organization would like to participate in the project or if you would like to submit questions for consideration. READER NOTE: Association Adviser is in the final stages of preparing the 2014 edition of the annual Association Communication Benchmarking Study. My early experience with Big Data.

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