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The Growing Demand for Fractional CIOs

Achurch

The use of fractional executives took off after the 2008 recession. After performing a technology assessment, the fractional CIO develops a technology plan aligned with organizational goals and strategies. You lack cohesion between systems and an understanding of how these systems advance business objectives.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.13.16

Reid All About it

This webinar will share the findings of Nobel prize-winning author Daniel Kahneman, who described two systems of thinking—intuitive/automatic and logical/deliberate. To be successful, you need a solid marketing strategy to recruit the right sponsors and grow your attendance. 1 CAE credit. . CAE credit. More information/registration.

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Shaking Up Patterns

Jamie Notter

This weekend I taught a three-hour session on Systems to students in Georgetown’s Organization Development and Change Leadership Certificate program. I love teaching this class and digging into the idea that when we get together in groups, we tend to fall into familiar patterns and system dynamics. Strategy Means Change.

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12 Areas Your Association Must Address to Thrive During a Recession

Membersuite

Investing in long-term sustainability means making tough but smart decisions like: Cutting the cord with customized legacy systems, Outsourcing IT to ensure security and backups, and. Engaging a consultant to conduct a technology assessment and help you develop a technology strategy. #8: 8: Marketing ROI.

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Serious Strategy & Tools for Pursuing Sustainability ? GrowGlobally.

GlowGlobally

global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. « Geographic Diversification – Good Strategy for Business. Serious Strategy & Tools for Pursuing Sustainability. Serious Strategy & Tools for Pursuing Sustainability. GrowGlobally.org. Membership.

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Exploring #Humanize: Open

Jamie Notter

It was decentralized, it gave power to distributed systems, and it enabled everyone to take action in the ways they needed to. Open processes embody systems thinking. It’s basically about understanding what happens in complex systems without always demanding simple, linear cause-effect explanations. December 2008 (9).

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Love and Power

Jamie Notter

It reminded me of another important post by Barry Oshry on the Seeing Systems blog on the topic, interestingly enough, of gender differences and championship soccer. In that post Oshry makes the point that all systems express themselves through both love and power. The taboo of Power systems is anything that constrains our freedom.

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