Idea Architects

MARCH 11, 2012

Your internal processes and procedures for vetting ideas cut off interesting and potentially breakthrough possibilities that the current data doesn’t support or portend? Your dashboard indicators or balanced scorecard become not just metrics for gauging progress, but also mantras by which all strategy and tactics are determined?

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Also: why your association should prioritize community managers in the hiring process. Overall, cities in the Midwest did particularly well, with five Rust Belt cities—Chicago; Lansing, Michigan ; Rockford, Illinois ; Fort Wayne, Indiana ; and Detroit —sitting in the top 10. Swag as a business strategy? It can be done.

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Idea Architects

JULY 20, 2012

Managing participative decision-making, particularly with diverse individuals who may come from various departments or functional areas, requires strong group process and facilitation skills. Regardless of the tools used or process selected, some of the core questions facilitators must help groups answer include: 1. Jeffrey Cufaude.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 10, 2015

Associations new to going global can find the process daunting. The result of my portion of the effort is Global Growth Strategies , a report written in conjunction with MCI Group. What’s been your strategy to introduce your association’s work outside the United States? It may be as simple as one letter.

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SCD Group

APRIL 6, 2015

Going digital is not just a strategy to reach millennials, it is a strategy to connect with all age groups. Their mission is to streamline the pizza-making process from the time the order arrives to when the pie is handed off at the customer’s front door. What are your digital strategies? Have you adjusted to that switch?

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Idea Architects

MAY 11, 2012

The process. Sometimes people are committed to the purpose of the gathering, but resist the process. A strategy session with only staff feels different than one including both staff members and board members or other volunteers. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Am I right? Whats your take? How should we proceed?

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Idea Architects

JULY 27, 2012

Instead of thinking of a workshop as an isolated learning experience, a committee meeting as a freestanding discussion, or a strategy session as a distinct and separate event, we need to design and facilitate them as a part of a longer chain of events, conversations, and meaning. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Blog Archive.

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Idea Architects

JULY 9, 2012

The process of making meaning may indeed have changed as individuals approach decision-making opportunities resembling those from the past, but now with a slightly (or significantly) altered framework of what matters most. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Reflection. 28, Columbia, CAI-SC Annual Conference. Blog Archive.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Similar programs in cities like Detroit and Pittsburgh are already showing great promise in addressing this important issue.” Pitching these developments as stories that can help teach other nonprofit leaders or businesses how to be more effective could help you land stories — and do some good in the process.

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Beth Kanter

JULY 30, 2012

” This could have created a public relations nightmare (It’s happened in the orchestra world when the Detroit Symphony musicians went on strike and used social media to air their concerns. .” This subtle shift was applied to their social media and communications strategy. dalvarez1 CEO of @ sfgoodwill #sm4np.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 22, 2012

Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions. When was the last time you were in a session intended to produce good strategy that actually did so? Too often strategy conversations are anything but strategic. Participants bring their past experiences and present expectations to the strategy effort.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 15, 2010

By engaging their own passions, his company created an experience for those visiting the Michelin exhibit at the Detroit Auto Show. Non-profits using revenue-generating programs and other business strategies to achieve their missions. For him, his depression was a necessary process for him to self-actualize. To break a record?

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Associations Now

AUGUST 12, 2015

In my five days in Detroit, I heard a litany of ideas, questions, and discussions about association membership, both in Learning Labs and in informal conversation. Content strategy is more important than ever. Here are four takeaways that stood out, including the definition of engagement and the next big threat to membership stability.

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Associations Now

JUNE 20, 2017

But it also brought in people who might not otherwise engage with Bezos, like Madonna, who saw an opportunity to help her hometown of Detroit: @JeffBezos #Detroit @empowermentplan @DETBoxingGym @DetroitAcademy pic.twitter.com/UAIq5IRpRd. — Madonna (@Madonna) June 17, 2017.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

With it comes your chance to experiment with new strategies and approaches that will help your organization gain more attention, build stronger connections with supporters, and raise more money to support your mission. Resolve to adopt some of these strategies to help make the most of 2020. Closes Tuesday, December 3rd.

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