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The Importance of an Innovation Strategy in your Culture

Jamie Notter

I led a great session in Wichita, Kansas this week with some really smart healthcare professionals. We had gathered some data prior to the meeting about the cultures inside their organizations, and then we got together to brainstorm some ideas about what they could do to encourage more innovation internally. image credit.

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Best Practices Suck

Jamie Notter

When you live in Denver, it is absolutely a best practice to drive east if you want to get to Kansas City by car. Louis, you will never reach Kansas City (not without involving a boat or a plane, anyway). In organizations, that means they must be uniquely configured to your culture. Is innovation a best practice?

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Internet Association Hires Christina Martin In Latest Expansion Of Executive Leadership Team

InternetAssociation

“Christina brings a wealth of policy knowledge and communications know-how to IA, where she will lead our organization in telling the story of the internet’s incomparable value to society and the economy.” She is a graduate of the University of Kansas. ###. Jon Berroya, Interim President and CEO.

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Match a City’s Perks with Your Attendees’ Interests

Associations Now

As you research future meeting sites for your organization, seek out cities that already embrace your organization’s mission and ideas. Headquartered in Indianapolis, NFHS is the national leadership organization for high school sports and activities. In January 2000, both the NCAA and NFHS moved from Kansas City, Mo.,

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Your Conference Education Needs A New Narrative

Velvet Chainsaw

Nor is it about the next new trend in delivery of information or the next innovative session format. As Kansas State University Professor Michael Wesch says, this new world of abundance is marked by. The true conference education revolution is about a much simpler idea—nothing more, or less, than a new definition of learning itself.

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The Hero is You

Jamie Notter

And in our book we are making a similar point–that our current machine-based approach to organizations is actually preventing our human potential. All of you are heroes who are currently struggling in organizations that manage to survive year after year despite unacceptable levels of frustration, apathy, inefficiency, and confusion.

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Going Complaint Free

Idea Architects

I want to express my reservations about movements like Kansas City minister Will Bowen's A Complaint-Free World , but to do so would be complaining and that's what the movement is trying to stop. Listen closely and see if you can unearth a potential innovation or positive change waiting to be heard and discovered. or the book.