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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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How to Drive High Donor Retention Rates with Text Messaging

Achieve

The answer is with a strong text messaging strategy. Building up a robust contact list is easy when you have a strong multichannel marketing strategy. You can also personalize your stewardship strategies based on what you’ve learned about your supporters so far.

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Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions

Idea Architects

Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions. When was the last time you were in a session intended to produce good strategy that actually did so? Too often strategy conversations are anything but strategic. Participants bring their past experiences and present expectations to the strategy effort.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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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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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The entire team should have up-to-date hardware with sufficient processing power, a high-quality camera and speakers, and a reliable, fast internet connection. Remember Management by Walking Around?

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

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In this age of unprecedented processing power, why is critical thinking important? Letting ideas flow freely seems like the opposite of the filtering process required for critical thinking. If your team is remote, find strategies to bring people together online. But creativity flourishes under many of the same conditions.

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Want Innovation? Look at Management

Jamie Notter

We are absolutely fine using strategic planning processes that were developed in the 1930s and perfected in the 1950s and 60s. Where’s the tweet that says “Ah [my association], I know FIVE budgeting processes that work better than this one?” Amaze people with a fundamentally new and more powerful way to do strategy.