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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our expert for guiding associations through tough markets. 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.

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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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What to Do When Membership Is Booming?

Associations Now

When your industry is red hot and your membership numbers are, too, how do you sustain your momentum? The Robotic Industries Association takes a three-pronged approach. That’s what the Robotic Industries Association is starting to see. For decades, RIA focused mainly on the auto industry in Detroit.

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The Future of Rental Cars Is Here

Associations Now

The result of all these changes is that an industry that has undergone quite a bit of consolidation in recent years, with mergers affecting both traditional car-rental companies and newer ones like Zipcar, is seeing lots of innovation without nearly the level of attention that ride-sharing companies like Uber have received.

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Advance Reading for #ASAE15

Associations Now

Heading to the 2015 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Detroit? Session: Josh Linkner, “Harnessing Innovation: Turning Raw Ideas into Powerful Results,” 8:30 a.m. Read: “ The American Geophysical Union is Using Data to Dig Up Industry Experts ,” by Katie Bascuas, July 30. Can't Be There?

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: I Want ASAE to Fail. And You.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. In 2010 and 2011, a diverse cross-section of ASAE staff, volunteers, and members convened regularly as members of the Innovation Task Force. Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Making Sponsorship Special Again

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. simply to support the industry or to have their name attached to an. need members and customers to pay a greater percentage of the real costs of a product or program so we can more accurately assess the market’s.