Associations Now
JULY 19, 2023
A commitment to innovation needs to start at the top of your organization. For CEOs, that means getting their boards comfortable with innovation and explaining to them how doing so will ultimately benefit the organization for the long term. Innovation isn’t easy, but it’s necessary to build a strong, effective organization.
Association Success
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
For association professionals and organizational leaders, innovation should always be top of mind. But in order to accomplish meaningful change, your organization has to have the right foundation to support the experimentation and expectations true innovation brings. Without the proper resources, attempts toward innovation are futile.
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Smooth The Path
SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
The magnitude of an innovation project doesn’t determine whether the project is innovative or not. Innovation is synonymous with big. So innovation also might be just as well be synonymous with risky, scary and the domain of only a privileged few. Innovation Type 1: Evolutionary.
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.
Eric Lanke
APRIL 30, 2018
Design constraints make innovation happen. But once I heard it, I realized I had been describing them using different words when I've talked about the need for staff to keep the keys to the resource closet in their possession in any co-creation activity. By resources I mean money, yes, but I also mean staff time. Here's another.
AssociationChat
MAY 20, 2020
We became friends in the early days of Twitter and through an innovative project called EventCamp that witnessed us meeting with other creative types in the meetings world to create and participate in unique experiences all over North America. EVENTPROFS RESOURCES (40+). EventTechLab.com – resource for tech startups.
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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