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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

Even if your association is trapped in a sea of competition, you can change course and sail toward possibility. At.orgCommunity’s recent Innovation Summit, Sharon explored how Blue Ocean Strategy can help you bypass the sharks and find your way to offering unique and powerful member value. Sharks are looking for a meal.

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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. Get curious.

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Your Members’ Tech Comfort Level Matters

Associations Now

Creating apps and innovative web platforms for your members is great and everything, but given the wrong circumstances, it may just be a lot of good innovation wasted. “Of course, I had no idea that it would take off as it has, nor the level of complexity it would rise to.” When Innovation Meets ROI.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Books like The Medici Effect , by Frans Johannson, and Where Good Ideas Come From , by Steven Johnson, confirm what weve long known: innovation in one field often occurs when an idea from another is associated into a new context.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Facilitation Friday #8: Help Surface.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. What are the assumptions behind the course of action being considered? 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas. Friday, February 24, 2012.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Go Boldly: A Personal Learning.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. ” In times when uncertainty seems ever-present and innovation ever more desirable, none of us can afford being less informed and less thoughtful. Set course to learning. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Timeless Questions, Timely Tactics

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. And, of course, that is one of the reasons why strategic plans often do not yield the commitment, action, or results they are meant to produce. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Wednesday, January 11, 2012.