The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 1, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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?

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Disruptive Innovation Coming to Nonprofits. You want innovation? Shelly blogs at Association Subculture because her cat is a bad listener. Where or where has my little blog gone. innovation. (6). Association Law Blog. Fast Company Blogs. Follow this blog.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Recipes for Innovation. He has designed some very innovative tools.and created innovative designs for traditional tools. On one wall -they shared his princples of good design.thought there might be some relevance to your interest in innovation. good design is innovative.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Innovation in Association Management. Deirdre Reid wrote about ASAEs Innovation Talks. WSAE is hosting their Innovation Summit right now. Host your own innovation conversations. Shelly blogs at Association Subculture because her cat is a bad listener. innovation. (6).

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. Labels: Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. Simple and effective in underscoring the importance of execution in any innovation effort.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. Labels: Innovation , WSAE.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 11, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. The best and most enduring innovations make you someone else. About This Blog.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. Hence our generic definition of innovation. Sunday, January 16, 2011.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 17, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 21, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. . About This Blog.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 22, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. Your members cant know what that next innovation is because it doesnt yet exist in their world. About This Blog.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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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GrowthZone

APRIL 20, 2021

Guest Blog by Kyle Sexton. Further moving value away from just advertising , there are four main drivers of sponsor value: Exclusivity. He was named by Chamber Executive magazine as one of the most influential innovators in the Chamber industry. Sponsors logos and banners aren’t advertising. Advertising is mass.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 28, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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

APRIL 21, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Heres another great HBR post describing another set of "principles of innovation." The HBR post describes several strategies employed by the very famous and very innovative Mayo Clinic. Combination Innovation. Thursday, April 21, 2011.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 10, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. at 11:46 AM.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. Heres the first: Does your leadership embrace innovation as one of the strategies necessary to achieve your goals?

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. About This Blog.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. For Part 1 go here.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 29, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. Thursday, July 29, 2010.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 5, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Innovation Needs "Leadership from Behind". Harvard Business Review has been running a blog feature for the past several weeks on Imagining the Future of Leadership. What I really want to focus on are Hills latter two realities--both dealing with innovation. Saturday, June 5, 2010.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 25, 2021

If you’re a home cook, check out the irregularly published In The Kitchen posts on my Grabbing the Gusto blog. Subscribe to Blog via Email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The Most Innovative Campaigns in Digital Advocacy. Lots of fish this past week.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 18, 2021

If you’re a home cook, check out the irregularly published In The Kitchen posts on my Grabbing the Gusto blog. Creating Innovative New Classes, Certifications & Association Products That Wow Members — and Your Board. The Most Innovative Campaigns in Digital Advocacy. Subscribe to Blog via Email. 1 CAE credit.

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Associations Now

MAY 9, 2016

Old habits die hard but, with a fluid market and the likelihood of innovations on the horizon, it can be dangerous for associations to become too set in their ways. “We have to move beyond gathering and reviewing our surface stats from the past,” Hurt writes on the firm’s Midcourse Corrections blog.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

A learning experience platform (LXP) is an innovative tool that associations and other learning businesses can use to disseminate educational content to members. LXPs are innovative in their prioritization of personalized learning experiences for each individual learner. What are the main learning experience platform features?

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 16, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Theres a reason why people follow Seth Godins blog. 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.

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Associations Now

MAY 29, 2019

New translating innovations can build on—and not detract from—the experience. Similarly, VR innovations, such as Microsoft’s HoloLens goggles, could also improve the event experience for deaf attendees. But uninspiring recruitment ads might be sending the opposite message , says the VolunteerMatch blog.

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WBT Systems

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Tap into your curiosity to spark innovation. The curious mind stays agile, innovative, and competitive,” said Steltzner. Curiosity is a main driver of creativity. Steltzner wrote a book with a title that sums up his approach to challenges: The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. 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. About This Blog. Why Another Blog? Innovation. Other Blogs. Harvard Business Blog. LifeCourse Blog. Principled Innovation.

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