Smooth The Path

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The magnitude of an innovation project doesn’t determine whether the project is innovative or not. Innovation is synonymous with big. So innovation also might be just as well be synonymous with risky, scary and the domain of only a privileged few. Innovation Type 1: Evolutionary.

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Association Success

JULY 10, 2020

Every Friday, we pull five articles our audience liked most from our weekly newsletter, which helps us all keep up with what’s trending. We look at the most-read articles from subscribers to our personalized twice weekly newsletter. That’s perhaps why a webinar tops our list of the Friday 5. . You’re focusing on change. Subscribe here.

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Association Leaders

MAY 22, 2013

I recently saw an article in Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek that caught my eye. The title of the article is, “ CEOs say Investing in Innovation is not Paying off “ The bottom line is a study was recently done of companies in the US and Europe. Complacency is not good. Aversion to risk leads to complacency.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 26, 2020

Alice Mathu of IAAPA shares how innovation can include comfort, sustainability and trying the latest technology. To create innovative and interactive meetings, planners around the nation are raising the bar on productivity and capitalizing on attendee experience. This article has been provided by Visit Orlando. Cuba Libre?

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Association Navigator

OCTOBER 31, 2014

I’m thinking about innovation in the context of managing associations and non-profit enterprises. Innovation is a corporate buzz word, but it’s also a fundamental element in any successful and growing organization. The concept involved is using a “wide lens” when preparing a product or service innovation.

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YourMembership

MAY 3, 2012

Are Innovation and Production at Odds? HBR posted a good article recently about Why Managers Don’t Really Want to Innovate. The article pointed out that most companies are not willing to devote time to innovation because innovative time steals from production time. The same can be said of innovation.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 28, 2020

To create innovative and interactive meetings, planners around the nation are raising the bar on productivity and capitalizing on attendee experience. Visit Orlando: How do you define innovation and what are you doing to infuse this into the meetings you plan? Innovation is anything that raises that level of expediency and accuracy.

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Protech

MAY 11, 2023

In this article, we’ll discuss three ways you can boost engagement with your members’ online community : Use a member engagement app. We’ll dive deeper into the types of exclusive content you can offer to engage members later in this article. Create branded eCards for members to send. Provide exclusive content and opportunities.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 11, 2019

SVP Chris Strong of the National Business Aviation Association shares how he thinks about innovation and strives to improve his events year after year. To creative innovative and interactive meetings, planners around the nation are raising the bar on productivity and capitalizing on attendee experience. Our show is a big show.

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Smooth The Path

MARCH 2, 2017

Innovation is a difficult strategy for any organization past the startup phase to adopt, and associations are no exception. When association executives talk about innovation, we talk about the possibility and how much more we can help members. We want to innovate, but we may be afraid to get started.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 1, 2013

My brand new Associations Now article on boards and business models is now available online. The magazine has given the article the title, “Trapped in The Past,” although I refer to it as “Five Reasons Why Boards Are Killing Association Business Models.” I am very grateful for her support.

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Association Navigator

JULY 12, 2012

There’s a fascinating feature in the current Washington Business Journal about gourmet catering and small business innovation. The article is called Aqua-profits and it includes a fun photo gallery. Check out the article here. It was a pretty cool space even before they installed a fish tank and a hydroponic garden.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 21, 2020

To create innovative and interactive meetings, planners around the nation are raising the bar on productivity and capitalizing on attendee experience. Visit Orlando: How do you define innovation and what are you doing to infuse this into the meetings you plan? . This article has been provided by Visit Orlando.

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YourMembership

MAY 31, 2012

How Do You Innovate With Millennials? There have been many articles written on how to attract millennials and hopefully, by now, you’ve put some processes and activities in place to attract this very large generation. Innovating with millennials sounds like a no-brainer. YourMembership.com Blog.

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.orgCommunity

MAY 15, 2019

Associations can’t fulfill their missions without innovation. Innovation helps organizations create and improve processes, products, services, and experiences for their members, customers, staff, and audiences. 10 elements of the innovation mindset to nurture at your association. #1: 1: Creative curiosity. 1: Creative curiosity.

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Beth Kanter

JULY 9, 2019

The article includes list of proposed best practices for use of AI in development and other social good fields. Find The Human-Technology Balance To Champion Your Customers This article is written primarily for small business owners, but it speaks to a point that nonprofits should also consider.

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Associations Now

MARCH 4, 2019

It built a way to put the article online, pay the writer, and create tax records in one fell swoop—all by hitting the publish button. One downside is that, because of the participants’ lack of familiarity with other fields, the solutions often aren’t immediately applicable, but it gives innovators something to aim for.).

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Planners share why host destinations don’t need to be large in size to deliver on expertise, collaboration and innovative resources for attendees. There’s more to the city than people realize, both in scientific innovation and cultural capital. This article is brought to you by Business Events Canada.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 20, 2017

When I say the word innovation to you, what feelings does this word evoke? In a recent research study association professionals reported that innovation is synonymous with risk, big expectations, large investments, long commitments and failure. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a guide to association innovation?

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Association Success

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Every week, we pull five articles our audience liked most from our newsletters to keep up with what’s trending. We look at the most-read articles from subscribers to our personalized twice-weekly newsletter. How do we come up with this list? The artificial intelligence-powered newsletter from rasa.io

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Smooth The Path

MARCH 1, 2016

There are a million and one excuses why we don’t get started on the new innovative work but at the heart is uncertainty. For every change effort, for every new innovative initiative uncertainty is our enemy. Related articles: The real reason associations are not innovating.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We’re scrolling alone—and it’s getting worse every year, per this Atlantic article by Derek Thompson. A hand-picked roster of big-thinking professionals at the forefront of innovation will share their vision and how they are actively creating the future of the events industry. Social fitness. Americans aren’t hanging out anymore.

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Association Success

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Every week, we pull five articles our audience liked most from our newsletters to keep up with what’s trending. We look at the most-read articles from subscribers to our personalized twice-weekly newsletter. Learn what it takes to make membership a forever transaction.”. 6 building blocks to an innovative culture. “In

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Associations Now

AUGUST 13, 2018

To put on the premier scholarly event in radiology, the American Society of Neuroradiology looks for a host city that’s as innovative as the delegation it serves. This article is brought to you by Business Events Canada. The post Combining Innovation & Cooperation for Meeting Success appeared first on Associations Now.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Disruptive Innovation Coming to Nonprofits. You want innovation? Check out this article from Fast Company on how Howard Buffett plans to invest in the nonprofit community - but with a catch. innovation. (6). Principled Innovation LLC. Disruptive Innovation Coming to Nonprofits. Wednesday, September 21, 2011.

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Association Success

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Every week, we pull five articles our audience liked most from our newsletters to keep up with what’s trending. We look at the most-read articles from subscribers to our personalized twice-weekly newsletter. Here are the five most-read articles from this week’s newsletter: The pros and cons of workshop platforms. “As

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Jamie Notter

JULY 3, 2012

Want Innovation? There was a time in the not-too-distant past when the people who were advocating for innovation in organizations were considered a bit on the fringe. Maybe they were the technology geeks–because that’s where we assumed innovation happened, at the product level. Look at Management. This is tempting.

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Associations Now

JULY 2, 2023

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, organizational behavior expert Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio points out three ways these biases emerge, often to the detriment of female employees. Indeed, leaders who want to avoid some of the biases the HBR article mentions might consider having a more holistic, team-based assessment approach.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 23, 2024

The AAAi Lab, launched last month , is the culmination of two years of concentrated effort within the association to innovate around AI, said Linda L. Beyea, Vice President of Innovation at AAA. In addition to providing guidance and articles, the site will include workshops and webinars around particular uses of the technology.

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GlowGlobally

JANUARY 24, 2011

The Face of Innovation from the East. You may recall in our four part article on MegaTrends and their impact on associations we featured the notion of “frugal innovation” from India. And here is one of the authors discussing frugal innovation with the Economist recently. Categories: MegaTrends & Research.

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Smooth The Path

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Sometimes innovation comes in the form of mashups. Could articles contain short video clips where the interviewee explains one of their thoughts in more detail in their own words? What are mashups, you wonder? Mashups combine two different, well-known ideas that create a third and new entity.

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Smooth The Path

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Articles imply that we are too slow, late, or small. Effective association to innovative association at light speed. I sense a haze of worry in the people I talk to, and the worry is pervasive found at the family unit, local, national, and global levels. Headlines warn of consolidation, disruption, and technology.

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SCD Group

JANUARY 28, 2013

4 Things Membership Organizations Can Learn From Innovative Companies By Lori Halley via Wild Apricot. How Nonprofits Can Sidestep Content Marketing Pitfalls By Clare Mcdermott via Content Marketing Institute This is a really great article for associations and nonprofits. Guess what, it doesn’t! In reviewing it, it suddenly struck me.

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Plexus Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Carter Is innovation important in your field? Is your organization considered innovative? Just how do innovators think? In a recent article, Harvard Business Review contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer reported on an interview on innovative thinking. By Virgil R.

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Plexus Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Carter Is innovation important in your field? Is your organization considered innovative? Just how do innovators think? In a recent article, Harvard Business Review contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer reported on an interview on innovative thinking. By Virgil R.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 6, 2014

But it’s not impossible to innovate your innovation process. A new year marks an opportunity for renewal, so a lot of executives at this very moment are doing more thinking than usual about how to spark innovation and bring in new ideas. Teams that are convened to generate new ideas often wind up recycling old ones.

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Smooth The Path

JUNE 2, 2020

You may have seen the article about a German cafe that passed out pool noodle hats to help customers keep their distance. Related: Innovative associations borrow and apply ideas. If your pool noodle knocks someone else’s pool noodles, it means you are closer than 6 feet. Try things you tried before.

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