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To Build or Buy a Software Solution: Which is Right for You?

Association Analytics

While usage is a great data point to evaluate your product’s success, there’s so much more to consider when weighing the options to build an in-house solution or use an off-the-shelf product. Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. Digital Marketing, Outreach, & Fundraising Tech Skills Map — an interactive diagram of digital competencies for nonprofit roles (free but requires you to provide contact info).

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Seven Tips on How to Use Your Digital Ecosystem to Enhance Your Fundraising

Forum One

Be sure to evaluate any existing integrations that may be available and keep this in consideration when evaluating licensing and overall costs. More on this: Mapping Your Digital Ecosystem. Developing a change management plan ensures you’re never reliant on one person to do certain jobs. .

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Life After Luminate CRM: Moving Forward with the Nonprofit Success Pack

Cloud 4 Good

Now, perform a system check on your current technology and evaluate the business process mapping and data conversions needed to complete your technology transition. We will work with you to understand your desired business processes, and we will map them into the NPSP functionality. Now – Take Initiative.

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How’s Your Digital Health?

Forum One

Periodic check-ins, ideally quarterly but at least twice a year, mean evaluating the success of the strategy and iterating. Without this deep understanding and ability to map the outcomes, it’s easy to make cost-driven decisions that actually break processes and lead to more inefficiency.

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Grantmakers’ Questions as a Way Toward Change

sgEngage

Philanthropy and knowledge work have a long history, from demonstration projects to evaluation to the encouragement of learning communities and grantee learning networks. Mapping the Nature of Our Questions Mapping the nature of a question can help us to design or select questions that most directly connect to desired change.

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An Interview with BWF on the Value of the RFP Process

Cloud 4 Good

Specific process mapping is usually integrated into the implementation process once a vendor has been selected. What is the difference between business requirements gathering and business process mapping? . Business process mapping involves performing a “deep dive” into a specific business process.

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