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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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Leadership Limerick: Innovation Requires Many Contributions

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Leadership Limerick: Innovation Requires Many Contributions. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Monday, December 05, 2011.

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Don’t Just Use Data, Keep Reinventing Your Data Strategy

Associations Now

The reason the company has managed to hold on for so long has much to do with its ever-evolving data strategy. Two decades ago, one of the most innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) products ever created by a major company first saw the light of day. It came from Detroit. It offers a great example for associations to follow.

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Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions. When was the last time you were in a session intended to produce good strategy that actually did so? A tactic or a strategy? Friday, June 22, 2012.

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What to Do When Membership Is Booming?

Associations Now

For decades, RIA focused mainly on the auto industry in Detroit. There are so many innovations, like collaborative robots and vision technologies, in more places, what I call robotics clusters—Pittsburgh, Boston, Silicon Valley, San Diego, and Austin, to name a few,” he says. We’re aiming to engage new members early on.”.

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Using Stories to Advance Your Strategy: Quotes and Questions

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Using Stories to Advance Your Strategy: Quotes and Questions. Labels: questions , story , strategy. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas. Image Credit. you know me.i

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The Future of Rental Cars Is Here

Associations Now

Silvercar , which has a presence at 10 airports nationwide, has taken an app-first strategy to car booking, allowing customers to pick up a car—in all cases, an Audi A4—without even speaking with an attendant. The Detroit News highlights data from consulting firm Frost & Sullivan showing that in 2014, 1.3

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