The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Heres another great HBR post describing another set of "principles of innovation." 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.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

The Innovation Hub for Associations. Ive been blogging about my work with the Innovation Task Force of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives for a while now. Its called the Innovation Hub for Associations , and can be accessed here. The core of the site can be found under the "Innovation Model" tab. at 9:18 PM.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Innovation = Creativity x Execution. This is a fantastic post on innovation from Vijay Govindarajan , co-author of the new book, The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge. Companies tend to focus far more attention on improving the front end of the innovation process, the creativity. Its excellent.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The Clinic of Innovation. Heres another fascinating post about innovation from the HBR blog. It describes the first-of-its-kind "Clinic of Innovation" at Oslo University Hospital--an internal unit within the hospital that is set-up to work like an outpatient health clinic.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Whats Your Innovation Readiness? The Innovation Task Force of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives (which I chair), is trying to develop an assessment tool for association executives to use in determining the "innovation readiness" of their associations. Precise strategy. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Whats Your Innovation Readiness? The Innovation Task Force of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives (which I chair), is trying to develop an assessment tool for association executives to use in determining the "innovation readiness" of their associations. This is where the innovation rubber really hits the road.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Next Steps for Association Innovation. This is an exciting time for the WSAE Innovation Task Force. First of all, our white paper on association innovation is nearly finished. Second, we are currently working on a new online community dedicated to innovation for associations. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 17, 2010

Principles of Innovation. The fourth meeting of the WSAE Innovation Task Force was held on July 16, 2010. For those of you new to this conversation, Im heading up an effort for my state society to define an evidence-based model of innovation for the association community. Im also blogging about it here.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Why Innovation is Hard. A little over a month ago I attended WSAEs National Summit on Innovation for Associations. As chair of WSAEs Innovation Task Force, I was instrumental in helping to frame WSAEs annual conference around the subject of innovation, and was even recognized as the chair of the conference itself.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 21, 2011

The Innovation Problem for Associations. “ Six Design Principles for Business-Model Innovation ” provides association executives with his usual thought-provoking push into territories we should really be spending more of our time in—but often don’t. The innovation problem for associations is not about process.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 28, 2010

Association Advantages for Innovation. Heres part three of the "innovation for associations" white paper Im helping to write while chairing the Innovation Task Force for the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives. Saturday, August 28, 2010. These advantages include: 1.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 11, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. The autonomy granted to chapters to foster innovation at the local level yield some components disconnected from the (inter)national organization and the direction of the profession or industry? Dec 2006 (3).

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Whats Your Innovation Readiness? Regular readers of The Hourglass Blog know that Im chairing the Innovation Task Force for the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives. The "innovation readiness" tool will also provide a framework for this discussion, and will help us organize the strategies we hope to develop.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 12, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2).

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2).

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Tailoring the knowledge transfer and exchange strategy to the audienceâ??s Principled Innovation LLC. instructional video. December 2006 (5). November 2006 (7). October 2006 (3). September 2006 (3). August 2006 (4). July 2006 (5). June 2006 (4). May 2006 (1). Feedburner.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. Want Innovation? Next post: Video Interview about #Humanize. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10).

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Idea Architects

MARCH 4, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. This seeming paradox allowed them to preserve passion for their purpose as the anchor for their efforts while constantly innovating and developing new services and efforts. Labels: mission , strategy , values , vision.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 13, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. How would you adjust your recruitment and involvement strategies to capitalize on this potential shift? Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6).

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

There is No Recipe for Innovation. Or so seems the conclusion of this fascinating blog post from Tim Leberecht of the the frog design and innovation firm, in which he reviews and connects several established and not-so-established kinds of innovation. His larger point seems to be that there is no magic pill for innovation.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 19, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2).

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2).

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 11, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Over the years, Ive developed a dozen questions to draw on during strategy conversations, ones that while timeless in nature almost always can generate new and timely responses. Labels: facilitation , questions , strategy.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 26, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday in 2011, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Invite “wild cards,” to participate in your meetings and strategy sessions. Labels: creativity , innovation. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. When we get sloppy with words like strategy, vision, mission, diversity, and many others, we do a real disservice to the deep meaning and full potential they represent. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1).

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Idea Architects

JUNE 23, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Ill be doing so in the following new effort: Refresh Strategy Labs. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6). Apr 2006 (1).

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Idea Architects

JULY 27, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6). Apr 2006 (1). Mar 2006 (2). Feb 2006 (2). Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 1, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Strategy sessions are about the future. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6). Apr 2006 (1). Mar 2006 (2). Feb 2006 (2).

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

Good and Bad Lessons for Association Innovation. Heres a link to a 15-minute HBR video with Vijay Govindarajan, coauthor of The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge. Its worth a look, full of some interesting lessons about innovation from the for-profit world. Labels: Innovation. at 7:00 AM.

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Idea Architects

JULY 20, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Labels: decisions , facilitation , facilitationfriday , strategy. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6). Apr 2006 (1).

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Idea Architects

MAY 11, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. A strategy session with only staff feels different than one including both staff members and board members or other volunteers. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

JULY 9, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Organizations would be wise to copy this strategy, building in a commitment to more thoughtful reflection on an ongoing basis. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

JULY 23, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Sue: Love the powerful way you framed this: becoming an agency for the sponsor and helping develop a strategy for them to realize their relationship goals. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4).

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 16, 2011

Normally I would just retweet something of his I find especially compelling, but given my last blog post of approaching innovation as an exercise in brand strategy, I thought Id expound a little more on something I read on Seths blog this week. And thats exactly what associations must do when it comes to innovation. Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

Read this April 1 blog post from Umair Haque on social media and social strategies. Read his take on social media strategy, which he boils down very well to: 1. Social media fits inside your business strategy, and is shaped by it. Social strategy fits outside your business strategy, and shapes it. Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 27, 2011

In my last post , I talked about something I called the Catch-22 of innovation. Your association wants to deliver new innovative products that meet the needs of your members, so you ask and poll them incessantly about their needs, wants and desires. Labels: Innovation , Umair Haque , WSAE. Innovation. Daring to Lead 2006.

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