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Strategy Innovation

Jamie Notter

For a project I’m working on, I dug out my old copy of Blue Ocean Strategy. Take a look at your strategy and see if there are any opportunities for innovation. Here’s where you identify parts of the industry where competition has been jumping over each other so much that customers end up being “over-served.” premium seating).

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How to successfully recruit and retain staff with innovative technology

Nimble AMS

Modern technology streamlines work processes, allowing employees to take on new projects and grow their skill sets. . When you adopt innovative technology at your association, you have the power to increase worker engagement, productivity, and collaboration. Ineffective tech can also cost your organization money and employees. “No

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Here’s a big idea: Innovation can be small

Association Success

I bet that if you pull any association’s job posting for a leadership opening, you will find the word “innovation” at least half the time, either as a requirement of the type of person or a descriptor of where the organization is going. This is not the only way to define, measure or think of innovation.

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Keeping Up Association Staff Engagement Throughout A Tough Project

Smooth The Path

If you live in an over 100 year old house like mine you know there’s a rule of thumb about time and cost for home projects. Initially the project seems fairly straightforward but as soon as it is too late to go back we find things we had not thought about or didn’t know about that make the work far more complex.

Project 89
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Get Member Thinking on Nondues Revenue Projects

Associations Now

For an association to push past the status quo, it needs not only a skilled executive and staff team, but also some innovative thinking on the part of members. The session resulted in 26 different nondues revenue projects that associations could invite members to participate in as a key partners. Post your ideas and experiences below.

Project 85
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Association Brain Food: 12.1.23

Reid All About it

Project success stories. Sherry Budziak of.orgSource recaps accomplishments and lessons learned by the association execs and tech partners who shared their project stories at Solutions Day. That’s on us, says Jay Cost at The Dispatch. Go on a whirlwind tour of some of our recent projects. Member recruitment. 1 CMP credit.

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Use the 5-Step Idea Process to Become an Association Innovation Ninja

Smooth The Path

Ideas are the root of all innovations. Because ideas lead to innovation we want more ideas, better ideas, THE idea that will excite members. Many innovative associations use a formal or informal idea process which generally has five steps and goes something like this: Step #1: Allow member’s problems spark innovative ideas.