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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

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. Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology. Technology has opened protected space. That idea might seem a little miraculous.

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What’s in store for 2014?

Aaron Wolowiec

Everyone’s hot to visit Detroit; Grand Rapids is topping national lists of places to live; and Traverse City keeps crushing it as a vacation destination, somehow figuring out how to lead about every trend – from craft brew making to farm-to-table cuisine – that comes down the pike. In other words, use technology thoughtfully.

Michigan 100
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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

The industry is surging thanks to advanced-automation and robotics technologies: Look no further than Amazon’s warehouse robots , which can now pick, pack, and ship an online order to your door. For decades, RIA focused mainly on the auto industry in Detroit. That’s what the Robotic Industries Association is starting to see.

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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. That’s not an unusual spot for an association exec to occupy regarding technology. When Innovation Meets ROI.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Crowdsourcing.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Engaging Members to Crowdsource Solutions and Innovations. Companies increasingly look to customer-generated innovations, co-creating products and services with the input and effort of end users. Blog Archive.

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

Associations Now

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’s one of the few examples of a data-rich, technology-driven subscription service that’s been active and successful for 20 years. It’s still going strong.