The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Film Directing Lessons in Innovation and Leadership. At the end of this year I will no longer be posting here at The Hourglass Blog. To keep following me on my new blog, go here. A new post, "Film Directing Lessons in Innovation and Leadership" has just gone up there. Labels: Innovation , Leadership. Innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Association Management - Simplicity + Volume Might Do the Trick. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. Shelly blogs at Association Subculture because her cat is a bad listener. Where or where has my little blog gone. innovation. (6).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Recipes for Innovation. He has designed some very innovative tools.and created innovative designs for traditional tools. He has designed some very innovative tools.and created innovative designs for traditional tools. Possible opportunities for adaptation to association management, maybe?

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 1, 2011

The Season of Innovation. Thats certainly what it feels like with the ASAE Annual Meeting next week and the WSAE-sponsored National Summit on Association Innovation five short weeks after that. Labels: Innovation , Jeff De Cagna , WSAE. About This Blog. Why Another Blog? Association Management.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Monday, December 14, 2009. Its a Question of Your Honesty - ERC 2009 Ethics Report. The Ethics Resource Center published its 2009 Ethics in Business Report in November 2009. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. Can still be open hearted.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Diversity in Association Management - the Association Subculture Weighs In. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. Shelly blogs at Association Subculture because her cat is a bad listener. Where or where has my little blog gone.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

Its Not Innovation If It Only Serves You. At the end of this year I will no longer be posting here at The Hourglass Blog. To keep following me on my new blog, go here. A new post, "Its Not Innovation If It Only Serves You" has just gone up there. Labels: Innovation. About This Blog. Why Another Blog?

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

The Bedrock of Innovation. I was combing through my backlog of HBR blog posts recently and came across this one from shortly after Google pulled the plug on their Google Wave experiment (remember that?). Failure of course is always a possibility with any attempt at innovation. Indeed the bedrock of innovation is failure.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Why Innovation is Hard. Note: At the end of this year I will no longer be posting here at The Hourglass Blog. To keep following me on my new blog, go here. A little over a month ago I attended WSAEs National Summit on Innovation for Associations. This is what makes innovation so hard. Labels: Innovation.

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Association Subculture

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Association Management - Building a Vision for Your Conference. Production must center on solid, innovative content presented with the best of adult learning techniques.period. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. innovation. (6).

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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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MAY 11, 2011

Association Innovation as Brand Strategy. In it, he advocates an approach to innovation that focuses not on meeting the expressed needs of customers, but on pushing customers to become something theyre not. All authentic innovations ask you — want you — to become a different dimension of yourself. Newer Post.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Association Management - Branding Efforts Gone Wrong. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management. Shelly blogs at Association Subculture because her cat is a bad listener. Where or where has my little blog gone. innovation. (6).

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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. Creating a culture of innovation in your association.

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Association Subculture

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Association Management - Truthiness and Lies, Lies, Lies. Jamie Notter is one of my colleagues and he focuses a lot on these topics in his stellar blog.). Here are five questions to ask when you find yourself in charge of a new marketing campaign in your nonprofit association. Where or where has my little blog gone.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

A Prescription for Innovation. This is part of an on-going dialogue between Eric Lanke and Jeff De Cagna on the work of the WSAE Innovation Task Force and the status of innovation in the association community. • Innovation is using technology to streamline operations and deliver new services.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 22, 2011

The Catch-22 of Innovation. Lots of good lessons in this HBR post for association professionals looking to be move innovative. Its the Catch-22 of innovation. But, as Anthony says, the whole point of innovation is to change things in a meaningful enough way that it renders past patterns meaningless. at 10:58 PM.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 21, 2011

The Innovation Problem for Associations. Jeff De Cagna had another great article in the April 2011 issue of Associations Now that I just got around to reading on one of my recent plane rides. The innovation problem for associations is not about process. Labels: Innovation , Jeff De Cagna , WSAE. at 9:04 PM.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

Real-World Innovation for Associations. I accepted an invitation from a national professional society to present the information we have developed on innovation in associations at their Board retreat, and help them determine how it applied to them and what specific steps they should take. 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

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The World Database of Innovation--CLOSED! I first stumbled across The World Database of Innovation in this HBR blog post from a few months ago. As well as over 200 in-depth case studies, it compiles the ideas of 4,500 or so innovation experts and consultancies. Five thousand two hundred and eight tools for innovation!

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Innovating 20% of the Time. Chris Trimble is skeptical of Googles 20% time--their stated practice of encouraging individuals to spend 20 percent of their time pursuing innovative projects of their own inspiration. And execution, as Trimble says, is the other side of innovation. Without execution, youre not innovating.

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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.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Monday, September 28, 2009. Association Management Gen Xer Meme - Right Here, Right Now. The next stages of my career will depend on blending all of these experiences into one, strong Project Runway -esque "point-of-view" that I can apply to association management and governance. September 30, 2009 6:08 AM.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2010

The Unsung Heroes of Innovation. Heres an interesting post on innovation from the Harvard Business Review. In it, Columbia Business School Professor Rita McGrath shares her insights on what makes innovation work in many of the companies shes observed. Monday, August 16, 2010.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

The Role of Trust in Innovation. If you didnt see it, Maddie Grant asked me to do a guest post on her SocialFish blog last week, and I shamelessly used it as an opportunity to promote the innovation project Im spearheading for the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives. Labels: Innovation. at 11:46 AM.

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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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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. Labels: Innovation , WSAE.

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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. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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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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MARCH 5, 2012

To quote from their website: Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. Top association management Blogs. Blog Archive.

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JULY 29, 2010

Barriers to Innovation in the Association World. In one of my last posts I shared the principles of innovation weve drafted as part of the "innovation for associations" white paper being written by the WSAE Innovation Task Force. But many associations approach risk from a decidedly conservative perspective.

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JULY 18, 2012

Seeking community in associations since 2008. Uber, DC, and the innovation model versus the permission model. Labels: blog roundup , Copyblogger , Facebook , Harvard Business Review , innovation , Jason Lauritsen , Joe Gerstandt , life in DC , Mashable , Shelly Alcorn. Top association management Blogs.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Seeking community in associations since 2008. Innovating from the middle : not a mythical creature. Not only can you innovate if youre not the CEO, if you want to be the. Shelly Alcorn takes on trends for 2012 and how they might affect associations. Top association management Blogs. Blog Archive.

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APRIL 29, 2009

« Enterprise Level Product Management & Sales in Europe. ASAE Study Mission 2009 – Dubai, UAE » Apr. ASAE Study Mission 2009 – Lessons from Singapore. Singapore is today a knowledge and innovation society with two main pillars of its economy: manufacturing and services. Association Management.

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