The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

As part of our effort to develop an evidence-based model of innovation for the association community, we want to provide a way for associations to determine where they are on the continuum of innovative practice, and plug them into a set of proven strategies tailored for their own position. Precise strategy. Nimbleness.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

The blogger, Michael Beer , thinks Ludwigs strategy of openness and transparency is rare among senior executives, but will necessarily characterize the leaders of the future. Ed Ludwig.allows people to speak truth to power, which is difficult — lower levels are hesitant to tell the truth and upper management are threatened by it.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 16, 2011

In my current world of trade associations I see the same dynamic, and my strategy with these businesses is simply to put them on a watch list, waiting for a change in leadership at the top that may signal a willingness to take another look. Labels: Association Management , Membership. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

Like our readiness tool, these discussion spaces are organized into three key tracks: a. Creating a culture of innovation in your association. Designing a process by which innovation will occur in your association. If you have some practical strategies to share in this regard, please visit [link] Thanks. Post a Comment.

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GlowGlobally

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. « Emerging Market Cities Open Their Doors to Associations. Following lunch, we transfer to the SUNTEC Convention Center for an Association Afternoon with local and regional associations. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

Unfortunately, from my point of view, only some of those lessons are good for the association community. Govindarajan describes the truism that it is the rare organization that lacks the ability to produce new and creative ideas. Its a strategy thats definitely biased towards large organizations with large resources at its disposal.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Maybe because of the way my brain works, I really like the mathematical model he uses to make his point: We like to think of an organizations capacity for innovation as creativity multiplied by execution. Association Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture. Has anyone read it? Posted by Eric Lanke.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 27, 2011

With that as his context, in this post he rips into traditional mechanisms of marketing, espousing a new strategy for engaging with customers, something he calls "listening up." And throughout, by simply substituting "members" for "customers" he provides a recipe for how association professionals can address the Catch-22 of innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The boards dont ensure that the organization has a sound strategy, they tolerate mediocrity in management, they dont hold the organization accountable for results, and they dont ensure that resources are adequate to accomplish goals. Association Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 26, 2011

In part one I talked about how the primary challenge for associations in innovating is a cultural one, and how organizational priorities need to move away from established structures and towards whatever mechanisms help the organization deliver better value for its members. Association Management. Daring to Lead 2006.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 1, 2011

They start measuring their success by their numbers and not by the objectives of the association hosting the meeting. As you hone your organizational skills, it starts being less about the mission of your organization and starts being more about sleeping rooms, banquet event orders and LCD projectors. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 21, 2011

In this regard innovation can be viewed as another association business practice—like program management or marketing—something that all organizations can do, albeit with varying levels of expertise and success. The innovation problem for associations is not about process. How about the organization itself?

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 17, 2010

By examining how innovation is successfully employed by the organizations profiled we hope to identify practical strategies for applying innovation in the association environment. Weve now examined enough case studies where we feel ready to start writing a "white paper" on innovation for the association community.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

I thought it was an awesome perspective--and an important push-back against the de facto data-driven strategies that seem to overwhelm so many association experiments. Confronted with this, the program managers had a great response. Labels: Association Management , Innovation. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

A couple of posts ago I mention a post from HBRs Andrew McAfee about how the connected habits of Millennials are benefting organizations. I wrote before how narrating your work is a very smart strategy because it lets you be helpful to others, and also increases the chances that they can help you. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

But I want to focus in on the underlying concept--that for an innovation process to succeed, it must align with the organizations culture and way of thinking. Thats an important lesson for any association executive interested in increasing the ability of their organization to generate and execute innovative ideas. Baby Boomers.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

In addition to being a great networking site, we will be using the levels of innovation readiness described in our white paper (and here , here and here on Hourglass) to structure and conduct facilitated conversations in this community, with the hope that they will help us identify and validate practical strategies for innovative practice.

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SCD Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

A career is not a job, but it's easy to sacrifice the strategy of building and executing a career when putting one foot in front of the other day-to-day. Plan an Exit Strategy (from David M. Patt, CAE, President, Association Executive Management): Good point about being so focused you missed the signals. It's the default!

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 28, 2010

Direct access to the mind of the community Innovative organizations know the needs and desires of the constituencies they serve—what we described above as understanding the “mind of the community.” ” In for-profit companies, this community is generally comprised of customers external to the organization.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

At the end of it, we made the following commitment: Each of us will commit to a specific objective in our own organization that increases our use of co-creation or participatory decision-making in program development of strategy setting. Association Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Indeed, Ericksons thesis is that Generation X, because of its formative experiences in the 1980s, has a unique set of leadership traits that are precisely what organizations need today to see them through the difficulties many of them are facing. Association Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 31, 2011

In part one I talked about how the primary challenge for associations in innovating is a cultural one, and how organizational priorities need to move away from established structures and towards whatever mechanisms help the organization deliver better value for its members. Association Management. Daring to Lead 2006.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 18, 2011

Associations want to keep members connected within their own "boxes," but more and more the borderless online world is allowing people to create and leverage their own networks that dont follow any pre-existing association lines--which are, to the concern of the pre-existing associations, all the stronger and more powerful for it.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Based on the innovation principles and processes I had been exposed to in the for-profit world, there surely was an adaptation to those models that could made for associations. Now, almost two years later, Im more confident than ever that associations can be innovative and can find ways to make innovation work for them. Baby Boomers.

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