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

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The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Promote Collaboration Creative people understand the power of group thinking. Don’t be a team in name only.

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

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Learn to Reinvent By definition, transformation means a dramatic change. Lego is another company that has consistently expanded its business model. They collaborated with popular franchises, developed video games and apps, and created products for adults. It’s the transformation that went off the rails. EI is not a new concept.

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Are You Done With Digital Transformation?

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One thing has definitely changed. The Gartner Technology Glossary offers these definitions. Digitalization is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities; it is the process of moving to a digital business.” Those statistics were not surprising in 2017.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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In recent years, that model is being challenged. Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking offers this definition: “Participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding–including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions–to the very communities that funders seek to serve.”.

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Insights into Collaborative Benchmarking Survey for the Social Good Sector

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In July 2019, The Opportunity of Collaborative Benchmarking whitepaper was released in partnership between Blackbaud, NetHope, and NTEN. It focused on answering the question, “How do we as a sector improve by collaboratively sharing our data?”. Insights into the Collaborative Benchmarking Survey Results. What can I do now?

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Research Friday: Ten Types of Collaboration (an alternate view)

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Models of Collaboration , by professor Mark Hager and Tyler Curry, identifies and describes types of nonprofit collaborations from an analysis of the 177 nominations submitted in 2009 for the prestigious Collaboration Prize. As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit. nonprofit practice.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. In collaborative projects, citizens collect data, but they also analyze results and draw conclusions in partnership with the scientists. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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