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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our expert for guiding associations through tough markets. At.orgCommunity’s recent Innovation Summit, Sharon explored how Blue Ocean Strategy can help you bypass the sharks and find your way to offering unique and powerful member value.

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Strategy Innovation

Jamie Notter

For a project I’m working on, I dug out my old copy of Blue Ocean Strategy. Take a look at your strategy and see if there are any opportunities for innovation. Which factors should be created that the industry has never offered? Here’s where you discover new sources of value and create demand for it. Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, Create.

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Strategy and Context

Jamie Notter

Strategy and Context. in Change , Strategy - 2 comments. Sohrab Vossoughi wrote a great post on HBR about Sony and how its successful strategy in the 1980s ended up being unique to that context. What RELATIONSHIP is changing in our market, and are we responding? Strategy Means Change. December 2005 (5).

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

.orgSource

In 2005, when Highroad was one of the few virtual businesses, the concept raised some eyebrows. And, most importantly, we discovered new strategies for adaptation and problem solving. Understanding your co-workers’ preferred styles for interaction is another strategy that turns bumpy communications into superhighways.

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Members Hire Tomorrow’s Associations

Potomac Core

Utilize market research to pinpoint challenges and build strategic opportunities to overcome those challenges. We don’t let anything get past us” notes Zucarro as his experienced team is ready to address any market or regulatory obstacle that will prevent the rotors from turning. Matt Zuccaro.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

According to a study from Goldman Sachs, “Generative AI tools could impact 300 million full-time jobs worldwide, which could lead to a significant disruption in the job market.” The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets.

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5 Reads for Association Executives & Marketers

SCD Group

Newsletters are stuck in 2005. It used to be called PR and word-of-mouth marketing. Faber The Project on Forward Engagement offers a three-part strategy for enabling policy makers to cope with accelerating change and complex challenges. For the most part, they’re still a one-way street. Negative-PR management. Brand advocacy.