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How Can You Plan for Innovation?

Association Adviser

The iPhone spent seven years in production by some of the world’s best innovators before it became a product that has changed how we go about our daily routines. It’s the one of the biggest – if not the biggest – innovations of our generation. Which all goes to show that innovation doesn’t just happen. The iPhone.

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Letting the Crowds Speak

Idea Architects

Yet every day associations leave significant assets in the form of member interest, expertise, and intellectual capital to accrue value in lower-yield, traditional forums. These are the two introductory paragraphs from my February 2007 article on some of the possibilities of open-source and crowdsourcing for associations.

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Product and Service Engagement Drives Membership Retention and

Membership Marketing

Intuitively, we all know that members using the associations services is good, but seeing the statistics to support it highlights the critical nature in the membership lifecycle of member engagement. The bottom line is that association business models are broken and in need of radical innovation right away. Tony Rossell.