Nimble AMS

MAY 17, 2022

Modern technology streamlines work processes, allowing employees to take on new projects and grow their skill sets. . When you adopt innovative technology at your association, you have the power to increase worker engagement, productivity, and collaboration. Discover how Nimble AMS can power your entire association. Download now.

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Spark Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2014

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is known for innovation. Plus, we don’t do cutting edge tech R&D innovation. ” Creating “innovation teams” or “innovation initiatives” is definitely a trend in associations. OK, I know what you’re thinking.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Innovation isn’t just about the ideas people create, but the environment leaders provide to inspire them. Innovation is essential to an organization—all it means, at its core, is being able to come up with new ideas, and your association hasn’t survived without doing that a few times.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Strategy 1: Innovate and Differentiate What can your association do for members that others can’t? Look to create new and innovative products and services for an underserved population in your membership. Once you’ve identified what’s working, you can reinvest, and promote those projects.

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Member Engagement Strategy Certificate Survey 210

Eric Lanke

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The students are generally seniors, who claim the vehicle as their capstone design project, earning credit while at the same time interacting with mentors in my association's member companies to make sure their designs are safe and effective. They learn fluid power, and the mentors recruit them into positions in their companies.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Big idea: Successful innovation can be small, too. How do you define innovation? I want to invite you to the real world of innovation: small-sized innovation,” Tatonetti says on Association Success. One way to implement this vision of innovation is to focus on streamlining workflows.

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Innovation Newsletter Social Media Project 94

Eric Lanke

APRIL 30, 2018

Design constraints make innovation happen. One perceived danger of associations co-creating with their members is the idea that members, if given the chance, will gobble up all of the association's resources for their pet projects. They are what makes actual innovation happen. Here's another. And here's the best part.

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Smooth The Path

DECEMBER 11, 2016

If you live in an over 100 year old house like mine you know there’s a rule of thumb about time and cost for home projects. Initially the project seems fairly straightforward but as soon as it is too late to go back we find things we had not thought about or didn’t know about that make the work far more complex.

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Project Cost Innovation Course 89

Smooth The Path

JULY 25, 2019

We see successfully completed association projects cited in publications. We do not know about the team’s morale as everything is going wrong and the project gets pushed back 3 months. The post Do Not Compare a Peer’s Project Launch to Your Association’s Project Start appeared first on Smooth The Path.

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Association Success

DECEMBER 16, 2019

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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Innovation Newsletter LMS Course 112

Smooth The Path

MAY 4, 2017

Nearly 70% of association leaders worry they are not leading innovation well at their associations (this comes from a recent survey of 1,000 association executives in Australia, and the results are likely to be very similar in the US). Shrinking the change means making the initial innovation goal small which makes the change easy.

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Innovation Project Team Resources 88

Associations Now

MAY 21, 2019

For an association to push past the status quo, it needs not only a skilled executive and staff team, but also some innovative thinking on the part of members. The session resulted in 26 different nondues revenue projects that associations could invite members to participate in as a key partners. Post your ideas and experiences below.

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Potomac Core

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Associations are increasingly well positioned to help members and industries build innovative workforce solutions through their professional development and certification products. How can Associations help members respond to this growing challenge and build innovative workforce solutions? Innovative Workforce Solutions.

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Innovation millennials eBook Certificate 100

Reid All About it

APRIL 5, 2024

She recaps a case study presented at the Innovation Summit about the American Board of Medical Specialties’ use of the blue ocean strategy to expand their certification tool into new markets. Learn about unmet attendee needs and innovative ways to leverage event technology to conquer these challenges. Blue ocean strategy. 1 CAE credit.

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Association Success

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The word ‘innovation’ is often treated as an end in itself. Being innovative floats around as an ephemeral goal of all projects, and a mark of a successful enterprise. But what are we innovating for? But the innovation couldn’t stop there – because our commitment to community impact continued. What is our purpose?

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Smooth The Path

MARCH 27, 2016

The difficult time in any project, especially those long projects, which associations seem to have lots of, is the middle. The middle of the project is when things start to go wrong. It is so easy to start a project but it is so hard to keep it going. The middle of the project is fragile. feel doubts. feel doubts.

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Smooth The Path

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Ideas are the root of all innovations. Because ideas lead to innovation we want more ideas, better ideas, THE idea that will excite members. Many innovative associations use a formal or informal idea process which generally has five steps and goes something like this: Step #1: Allow member’s problems spark innovative ideas.

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Innovation Process Project Products 119

Reid All About it

MARCH 8, 2024

. – Tech Tuesday Slam Dunk: Successful Strategies to Manage Your IT Project Portfolio Managing your IT project portfolio is like juggling multiple March Madness brackets—requiring skill, precision, and strategic thinking. Learn about unmet attendee needs and innovative ways to leverage event technology to conquer these challenges.

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Social Media DC Strategy Education 250

Smooth The Path

JANUARY 22, 2017

A good culture greases the wheels for everything from conversations to project management. Related: Why you have to work on culture before you innovate. The post Association Culture Projects Outward Upon Potential Members appeared first on Smooth The Path. We also care about culture because our culture manifests outwardly.

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The Association 100

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Get a peek into ongoing projects and learn about the organization’s innovative use of AI and vision for a personalized digital landscape. Colleen Lerro Gallagher , President & CEO, OnWrd & UpWrd The post Elevating the digital user experience for members appeared first on The Association 100.

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.orgCommunity

MAY 15, 2019

Associations can’t fulfill their missions without innovation. Innovation helps organizations create and improve processes, products, services, and experiences for their members, customers, staff, and audiences. 10 elements of the innovation mindset to nurture at your association. #1: 1: Creative curiosity. 1: Creative curiosity.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 20, 2017

When I say the word innovation to you, what feelings does this word evoke? In a recent research study association professionals reported that innovation is synonymous with risk, big expectations, large investments, long commitments and failure. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a guide to association innovation?

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Membership Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When you search the Harvard Business Review on the key word “Innovation”, you get 18,356 results. That’s because for businesses innovation is a core competency for survival. But how focused on innovation are associations? How do associations define innovation? And how do they go about innovating?

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Smooth The Path

MAY 7, 2020

The post I am Not a Fan of Most Membership Structure Change Projects appeared first on Smooth The Path. Navigating each association’s two-way trust street. This is the perfect time to question what an association is.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 30, 2020

Your client engagement manager is your point of contact – a sort of concierge – to guide you through all things Nimble AMS, such as upgrades, licensing, new projects, and more. The team is here to help you to continue to deliver new and exciting projects to your team and members. Support that sets you up for success. We’re nimble.

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Innovation Team Project Technology 78

Association Success

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

While innovation and adaptation are themes that resound throughout industry discussions, we don’t need to see change as a necessary reaction to our context. We are optimistic that all around the industry, there are people and organizations whose projects and plans are carving out exciting new futures for their communities.

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Innovation Case Study Video Project 60

Reid All About it

MARCH 1, 2024

Learn about innovative solutions in content generation, inline editing, image creation, and AI-driven audio editing tools. Unleashing Transformation: Assessing Your Association’s AI Potential Ready to automate processes, free up time for mission critical work, and ignite a spark of innovation? 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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Education New Hampshire Tips Technology 256

Reid All About it

APRIL 12, 2024

.* – Leadership Excellence: Prioritization and Inspiring Change Navigating complex projects and organizational change can be daunting for any leader, but women often face unique challenges in gaining buy-in and driving results. More info/register. More info/register. More info/register. More info/register. More info/register.

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Revenue Strategy Price Newsletter 210

Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

If you want a thriving organization you need to innovate. If you want to innovate you have to have a culture that supports it. In a recent discussion on ASAE’s online community Collaborate contributors talked about association innovation, and, interestingly, much of the conversation revolved around organizational culture.

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Smooth The Path

MARCH 2, 2017

Innovation is a difficult strategy for any organization past the startup phase to adopt, and associations are no exception. When association executives talk about innovation, we talk about the possibility and how much more we can help members. We want to innovate, but we may be afraid to get started.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fri 10/6 at 10 a.m.* – Artificial Intelligence | Coffee with Innovators: Association Design Circle Every month, an association leader leads a conversation on an association innovation topic. I’m happy to feature it as long as it’s not too product-centric. What opportunities and challenges do we foresee? More info/register.

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Revenue Certificate Tools Innovation 256

Associations Now

JUNE 12, 2017

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

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Innovation Press Release Project Products 72

Smooth The Path

OCTOBER 9, 2018

There is a big project you would like to do, but it is so big you have back-burnered it until the day when you have a significant chunk of time. But you can still make headway on your big project. For nearly every big goal or every big project there is something you can do now to start testing your ideas.

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YourMembership

MAY 31, 2012

How Do You Innovate With Millennials? Innovating with millennials sounds like a no-brainer. While they have the enthusiasm, they may need the goals of your innovation to be laid out for them. Another way to capitalize on their exuberance and get them innovating is by placing them in charge of the “little things.”

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Fri 2/2 at 10 a.m.* – How to Amplify Your Team’s Power with Generative AI Hear about practical, real-world applications of AI to enhance team efficiency and innovation. Project Success Is Up to You: Taking Your Project to the Next Level I get it. You have a full-time job, and doing systems projects isn’t it.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Project success stories. Sherry Budziak of.orgSource recaps accomplishments and lessons learned by the association execs and tech partners who shared their project stories at Solutions Day. Go on a whirlwind tour of some of our recent projects. Good things happen when you have good relationships with technology partners.

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Arlington Technology Strategy Los Angeles 266

Golden's Rules for Association

APRIL 2, 2012

To be real, innovation needs to be a habit, not a standalone project. And habits are learned through constant practice – doing something consistently and constantly until it becomes an ingrained feature of everyday activity. Something that is constantly happening, almost without conscious effort or thought.

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