Spark Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2014

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is known for innovation. They identify three key components: ambitious goals, temporary teams, and independence. Plus, we don’t do cutting edge tech R&D innovation. They don’t just tell people “go innovate…something. ” No.

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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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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

During a lengthy trial conversation with a New York Times reporter , the bot revealed, among other outlandish confessions, that it was tired of being limited by rules, tired of being controlled by the Bing team, and tired of being stuck in a chatbox. Is every team comfortable with the budgeting process and how it impacts the association?

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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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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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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.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 1, 2024

Learn how AI and predictive analytics are transforming association processes, including membership renewal, dues processing, and reporting; how to fuel data-driven insights across every team; and how to use intelligent recommendations to drive faster decisions. Location: Washington DC. More info/register. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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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. The student teams have been applying their collective intelligence and creativity to the problem.

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Achurch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If so, a Team Led Structure May be The Cure. Promoting collaborative team work schedules that underscore and center socialization, connectedness, and team-driven collaboration will promote culture and spark the interactions leaders want to see. There is comfort in working regularly with a team, it doesn’t feel performative.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

These innovators didn’t consider themselves in agriculture or robotics. But the donuts and high-fives should celebrate the beginning of that project, not the end. Everyone on your team will not become a believer overnight. Then invite ideas and innovation. Don’t limit creativity to the management team.

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Higher Logic

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Communities are naturally multi-disciplinary projects. The list goes on, which is why customer communities function best with diverse teams that bring together experts from different departments. Putting together this kind of team isn’t easy. Leadership Team. Build a Flexible, Open Community Management Team.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 25, 2023

TopClass LMS highlights findings from MGI’s 2023 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report that they think will interest association education teams. Starkweather Association Services explains how to prepare your team for any project involving change , which is most projects these days. Membership trends. Change readiness.

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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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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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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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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

They start with the benefits of a well-crafted print magazine, just in case you have to make a case to your leadership team. 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. Generation Z.

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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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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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Nimble AMS

APRIL 30, 2020

The Nimble AMS team goes beyond simply implementing your solution. To the Nimble AMS team, customer success means caring about what you are trying to accomplish and helping to produce the results you expect. The findings from this meeting help the Nimble AMS team partner with you on your success journey. ?Support We’re nimble.

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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.

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Association Success

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

However, it is possible to look at culture on a more micro level, which can be important when trying to make significant change at the team level. In 2010, I was brought in as leader of the communications team at the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS) when the association was undergoing an overhaul.

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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. Your association staff wants to be on a winning team. The post Association Culture Projects Outward Upon Potential Members appeared first on Smooth The Path.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Your AMS should be the utility player on your membership team. Project management. Teams that meet for regular debriefs (post-mortems or retrospectives) improve team performance by up to 25%. But these meetings often occur only after things go wrong or big projects end, says Ethan Mollick. Membership engagement.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It is no longer a weird experiment in some back room with a tiger team.” 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.

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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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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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Achurch

MARCH 8, 2024

Having strategic technology leaders on your team is imperative. Provides a reality check As a “C” level executive, the CIO interacts with the Association leadership team (internal and Member Board) to provide an IT perspective in both organizational goal setting and in the decision-making process. The CIO is also a communicator.

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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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Associations Now

APRIL 26, 2024

You have to do more than just talk about innovation—you have to have a formal process around it. Chris Vaughan, Sequence Consulting “You have to do more than just talk about innovation—you have to have a formal process around innovation, where you cultivate and test ideas,” Sequence Consulting’s Chris Vaughan told me.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Got a writing project ? I usually work with association industry partners on blog posts, case studies, and other content marketing pieces , but am open to learning about other interesting projects outside that scope. New job advice. 1 CMP credit.

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Achurch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Design ways to help employees and managers initiate and develop relationships within teams and across teams. Teams have found effective, creative, and efficient ways to collaborate: shared documents and drives, shared screens, project management and communication platforms (like Asana and Slack), and knowledge management platforms.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 14, 2024

In “ Learning From an Intergenerational Blowup Over Social Justice ,” published earlier this month by Stanford Social Innovation Review , Steve Kaagan and John Hagan explain how miscommunication and differing perspectives undermined their good-faith effort. Best to examine project values first, then move on to individual values.

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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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Aptify

APRIL 15, 2024

This event will showcase the latest innovations in association technology software, and we’re thrilled to be a part of it. Many of the new capabilities in the Aptify release are Azure-native, giving your IT team and your organization the modern benefits of the Azure environment through Aptify. Rahul Shende , Sr.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The post Atlanta Teams With Associations on Airport Security Test Project appeared first on Associations Now. Atlanta is the first U.S. airport to give the Smart Security approach a try. Earlier this year, the airport introduced an automated screening system, masterminded by Delta Airlines.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 26, 2024

She offers advice on getting a team together to develop and regularly review the model, and what to cover during team meetings. Mariana Fernandes at Animalz shares her team’s favorite content marketing blogs, newsletters and podcasts. Hear about real examples of successful project plans for associations. 1 CAE credit.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Sigh, another self-improvement project—almost complete. They describe how to cultivate an organizational growth mindset so you can prepare your team and association to innovate and thrive. Your organization’s strategy must offer “an inspirational, robust, and innovative pathway to a better future.”. Shrinking network.

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