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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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That steep trajectory isn’t a good fit with the speed of innovation required to navigate digital markets. You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration.

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

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In 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified a set of qualities they consider most important for learning in the digital era. The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

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Automation, analytics, and all the other digital timesavers should be making their lives easier, right? Why did your digital transformation fail? The digital piece was a success. ” What does it mean to be emotionally intelligent, and how can it improve your ability to utilize digital tools? What went wrong?

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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We selected this group because, as independent business owners, they were acutely aware of the challenges of digital markets and the attitudes needed for success. I use the word “change” frequently to describe shifts in the digital world. Subsequent models will incorporate changes based on consumer feedback.

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Lead From the Human Side of Technology

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Digital platforms and processes infuse every business activity. As a result, IT leaders are called on to share their wisdom with the rest of us, and they are challenged to help us collaborate in ways that are unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable. Managing the human side of digital transformation is challenging.

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

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We need another term for “digital transformation.” Becoming a digital organization means infusing technology into your association’s ecosystem. Integration” is a word that I use frequently when I’m helping clients with digital initiatives. But digital markets revolve around reinvention. If only it were that simple.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

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Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.”