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How Racism Plays a Role in Health Inequities with Author Harriet A. Washington

AssociationChat

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. On July 23, 2020, from 3-4 pm EST, Association Chat interviews award-winning medical writer & editor, Harriet A.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Effective communication â?? Whether the movement of information is one-way (knowledge transfer) or a two-way flow (knowledge exchange), an organizations ability to pursue its core mission can depend in large part on effective communication. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? both electronic and print.

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The Hourglass Blog: Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic

The Hourglass Blog

I say "another," of course, because of my work with the WSAE Innovation Task Force, where we helped define four key principles of innovation from the case studies we examined in the for-profit sector. But those explorations have to be communicated and leveraged so that the organization can take best advantage of them.

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Inability to Scale Biggest Mistake in Trying to Grow Globally.

GlowGlobally

Saw this first hand in 2006 while meeting software executives in Bangalore. ” The biggest lesson I’ll share from our “in field” client research and case studies is that most associations fail to grow their regional business because they try to operate locally using underdeveloped operational models.

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The Hourglass Blog: The World Database of Innovation--CLOSED!

The Hourglass Blog

As well as over 200 in-depth case studies, it compiles the ideas of 4,500 or so innovation experts and consultancies. Communication. Daring to Lead 2006. And the website, when you go to it, says this: Generate has discovered more than 105 areas of best practices in innovation. And Im thinking, fantastic! About This Blog.

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The Hourglass Blog: Principles of Innovation

The Hourglass Blog

Inspired by the dedicated, defined and resourced “innovation function” that exists in many for-profit companies, we are examining a series of case studies that profile these processes. 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: What's Your Innovation Readiness? Part 2

The Hourglass Blog

But in the case studies we examined, all of the successful innovation processes we found included the following attributes: A. In the case studies, the objective of innovation was invariably to deliver better products or services to a constituency. Communication. Daring to Lead 2006. Precise strategy.