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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Technology has opened protected space. Their research indicates that customers don’t want quantity.

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Leveraging strategy to amplify education initiatives

Aaron Wolowiec

Aerial of downtown Detroit Riverfront Photo Credit: Vito Palmissano. Hosted by the Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit, the theme is “What’s Working?” Despite bad press, Detroit offers countless examples of what’s working. Likewise, Detroit is not the ‘black eye’ of America and Motown magic continues to attract business.

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What’s in store for 2014?

Aaron Wolowiec

Everyone’s hot to visit Detroit; Grand Rapids is topping national lists of places to live; and Traverse City keeps crushing it as a vacation destination, somehow figuring out how to lead about every trend – from craft brew making to farm-to-table cuisine – that comes down the pike. In other words, use technology thoughtfully.

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Obsessive Innovation: Why Associations Must Constantly Turn to What’s Next

Associations Now

At the ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Detroit Sunday, opening general session speaker Josh Linkner explained to association leaders the five “obsessions” of innovative thinkers and showed them how they can be adopted back at the office. The best of the best are always focused on reinventing.

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Reinvent What You Do, Not Who You Are

Association Subculture

How students can't cope with rising tuition costs without incurring massive debts. And now, Detroit. Our beloved Detroit is in danger of losing its soul. There are millions of technologies that we should be embracing. How the minimum wage is stagnant and the number of working poor is now an epidemic.

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Joint Membership: The “Special Sauce” for Chapter Relations

Associations Now

Schmidt says the cost to join is a big barrier for many New Jersey nurses. Technology and automation tools are some of the biggest drivers of a shift to joint membership. Joint membership makes it much more affordable for nurses to join national and our chapter,” says Judy Schmidt, CEO of NJSNA. “We

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Lunchtime Links: Don’t Get Stung by Bad Data

Associations Now

As Sara Rowland, business analyst for International Data Management, writes for the Nonprofit Technology Network Blog , “charities are gearing up for campaigns that will drive in a large volume of their year-end donations. And it will cost you even more if your database and information systems are out of date, says Rowland.

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