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You’ve Got to Read This: September 13, 2011

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Need marketing inspiration? Kivi Leroux Miller collected dozens of examples of quirky, kooky and off-beat approaches to nonprofit marketing and fundraising. Lots of people know just enough about marketing to be dangerous. Are you sick of hearing about innovation? I hope not. photo by Fergus Ray Murray (Flickr).

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Are You an Innovator or a Producer?

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Are Innovation and Production at Odds? HBR posted a good article recently about Why Managers Don’t Really Want to Innovate. The article pointed out that most companies are not willing to devote time to innovation because innovative time steals from production time. The same can be said of innovation.

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The Trick to Innovating with Gen Y

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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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You’ve Got to Read This: February 10, 2011

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Innovation starts with self-critique (which is why it’s so rare) , says Peter Linett. His litmus test for innovation: “I ask myself whether it feels like it was designed by that kind of institution, within its traditions, values, and personality — its comfort zone. Image by Nick Bygon.

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You’ve Got to Read This: January 18, 2011

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Yes, it would be great if staff had the right mindset for innovation. Tagged: Association , Conference , Innovation , Marketing , Social Networking , Web and Social Media , Writing. Creating the organizational culture that will bring about these changes? That’s the challenge. Take for instance #2, Mindset.

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The Results of Management Innovation

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The Results of Management Innovation. In a recent post I challenged everyone to consider innovating management , rather than just our products, services, or business models. That implies, of course, that if we actually do management innovation, we will be solving a problem. We can’t move when the market moves.

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Top Findings from the Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report

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In addition to looking at the tactics and strategies that typically correlated to success, we also asked respondents to rate how innovative their association is and what level of value that they are delivering to members. So if innovation and value are so important, how are associations innovating and providing additional value to members?

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