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How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Both flood the brain with dopamine, provide a brief high, and kill your productivity.

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10 Ways Nonprofit CEOs Get Creative

TechImpact

Does it mean driving sweeping changes in a completely new business model? The next time you and your team sits down to brain storm ideas, let them know before you start that “nothing is out of line.” The act of pulling a thought out of your brain and making it physical and tactile could be just the beginning of something astounding.

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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

Global Giving

By using data about each loan, including daily popularity, the Kiva team worked with DataRobot to build dozens of models to identify relationships in the data. Thanks to these models, Kiva can now predict which loans are unlikely to be funded each day.

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Get More Out of AI, Start Chatting

.orgSource

Compared to today’s models, Eliza was tongue-tied. Pick the Bot’s Brain AI powered chatbots learn from user interactions. Fun fact–the first Chatbot, Eliza, was developed in the 1960s by MIT professor, Joseph Weizenbaum. Begin the Search Give the bot clear objectives. Integration with member data gives the bot real clout.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Don’t waste valuable brain power. Leaders who promote professional development and education of all kinds also encourage teams to bring an expansive perspective to their work.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format. The World Café is a strategy designed to deeply explore a series of topical questions. The event was what the association community does best.

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A People First Approach To Nonprofit AI Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space). Encourage staff to look for “points of pain” where busy work, known as the “digital debt” – processing endless emails, managing back-to-back meetings zaps people’s energy or reformatting information and robs time away from strategic thinking.

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