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Catering and Innovation – Main Event

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There’s a fascinating feature in the current Washington Business Journal about gourmet catering and small business innovation. Nancy Goodman and Joel Thevoz, the married business partners at Main Event Caterers in Arlington, Virginia have created an aquaponics system for growing vegetables and raising fish – in their warehouse!

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Five steps to becoming an innovative association and driving member value

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When you think of an innovator, you might imagine Marc Benioff, Sheryl Sandberg, or Elon Musk. Innovators introduce new ideas, inventions, or discoveries to our ever-changing world. But your association can become innovative and drive superior member value. How would adopting innovative technology help your association thrive?

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Innovation Challenge Brings Members and Startups Together to Address Climate Change

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For a second year, a leading industry association has launched an innovation challenge that connects startups with member companies to address climate change. According to GCCA Cement Director and Head of Innovation Claude Loréa, concrete accounts for 7 percent of global CO2 emissions.

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Here’s a big idea: Innovation can be small

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I bet that if you pull any association’s job posting for a leadership opening, you will find the word “innovation” at least half the time, either as a requirement of the type of person or a descriptor of where the organization is going. This is not the only way to define, measure or think of innovation.

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At One Meeting, Innovative Registration Makes for Happier Attendees

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To create innovative and interactive meetings, planners around the nation are raising the bar on productivity and capitalizing on attendee experience. Visit Orlando: How do you define innovation and what are you doing to infuse this into the meetings you plan? Innovation is anything that raises that level of expediency and accuracy.

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Thomas Edison Can Teach Associations About Innovation

Smooth The Path

Additionally, many of his philosophies and methods for innovation are still directly applicable. Innovation at the Edison labs was not an it-can-only-be-made-here endeavor. Need more resources on how to innovate at your association? Here is a handful of things he did 100 years ago that we can learn from even now.

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Corn Growers Group Launches Innovation Challenge

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The National Corn Growers Association is relying on some friendly competition to crowdsource innovative ways to use corn products. billion bushels, the National Corn Growers Association is hosting a global open innovation challenge to explore new solutions for turning the crop into bio-sustainable chemicals and molecules. “We