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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Technology has opened protected space.

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The new association “normal”

Aaron Wolowiec

AA: You referenced ASAE’s hybrid membership model in your opening remarks at ASAE’s annual convention in Detroit. But, technology actually enables communication. The younger generation is much more comfortable with technology. AA: So we can expect more technology-based communication from the next generation of leaders?

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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. Defy tradition.

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What to Do When Membership Is Booming?

Associations Now

Declining membership naturally causes sleepless nights for association CEOs and membership teams, and finding solutions to that challenge is critical for survival. For decades, RIA focused mainly on the auto industry in Detroit. When your industry is red hot and your membership numbers are, too, how do you sustain your momentum?

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Reinvent What You Do, Not Who You Are

Association Subculture

We can't moan about members who can't pay dues and then send legislative teams out to kill bills to increase the minimum wage. And now, Detroit. Our beloved Detroit is in danger of losing its soul. There are millions of technologies that we should be embracing. It's spreading to Indiana, Wisconsin and New York.

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Tuesday Buzz: Two Athletic Takes on Leadership Transitions

Associations Now

Also: how the Detroit Pistons let go of a legend the right way. And though the team has struggled in recent years, Dumars is responsible for much of its success—a point made by owner Tom Gores. ” Dumars may not have been lighting up the win column much these days, but the team is giving him the classy exit he deserves. .

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

Associations Now

It came from Detroit. In fact, the company has recently found ways to integrate elements of technologies that didn’t exist in OnStar’s early days, like Salesforce’s cloud computing infrastructure and IBM’s Watson. So does the membership team. It’s still going strong. And it didn’t come from Silicon Valley, either.