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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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Motown magic continues to attract business

Aaron Wolowiec

Detroit’s Cobo Center. I’m sure I can speak for my fellow Michiganders: We’ve watched with heartbreak as Detroit, once the most prosperous city in the country, has struggled to financially support its declining population. A recent Detroit Free Press column by Tom Walsh piqued my interest for this blog. It’s not pretty.

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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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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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Think Like a Futurist to Identify Trends Affecting Your Association

Associations Now

Instead, Connelly aims to stimulate conversation around what trends may mean for people and organizations. But every organization knows that you have to plan.”. Even when I do this work in my day job, I never tell anyone what to do with the information,” she said. Don’t expect your past to be your compass to go forward.”. Be plausible.

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Blogging Live from TEDx Raleigh

Reid All About it

TEDx Raleigh is an independently organized TED-like event. Dean Hering , OVO Innovation, Chief Innovator at NetCentrics. By engaging their own passions, his company created an experience for those visiting the Michelin exhibit at the Detroit Auto Show. Engage through experience. How to get people engaged.

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Getting Married to Membership May Require Engagement First

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. It used to be that you had to pay to play: join an organization and then you can get involved. community that people value and that our organizations market. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference.