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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology. Before their book was published in 2005, the authors “studied over 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.” Technology has opened protected space. In addition, it’s convenient and economical.

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2019 Tech Trends: 3 Factors Associations Should Watch

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Remember how, around 2005 or so, it seemed like PCs (at least on the Windows side) were starting to stagnate, leading to longer upgrade cycles in offices, as much of the existing tech “just worked”? It’s like 2005 all over again. It’s like 2005 all over again. The latest and greatest is becoming a commodity again.

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

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The technology promises to upend the way business operates. 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.” Yet no one is sure how that new reality will unfold.

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Members Hire Tomorrow’s Associations

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Global uncertainty and technological advances are forcing Members to make more informed decisions on how to spend their precious time and money. Since 2005, the Association transformed itself into a well-capitalized, forward looking, and fast moving extension of the Industry. Matt Zuccaro. Alison Bodor.

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November 1963 Through the Lens of the Internet Age

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But I’m gripped by a few thoughts on the difference today’s technology would have made if it had existed on that day in Dallas. In 2005, when Pope Benedict was announced, Vatican City was a sea of faces. Of course, smartphones are only one part of our photographic technology. The first involves smartphones.

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The Cruft Challenge: When It’s Time to Disrupt Your Own Technology

Associations Now

We all have software like United Airlines’ flight-tracking system, software that definitely needs the occasional upgrade, that is built from technology that predates some of your own employees. Is it a matter of embracing newer technologies, or getting rid of interfaces that simply complicate or confuse?

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Five Lessons from the Road

Idea Architects

Use of any new technology should be considered in light of the character of the relationship an organization (or individual) wants to have with their members, customers, and stakeholders and how to reflect that and their core values and personality in doing so with the new technology. Nov 2005 (1). Oct 2005 (1).