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

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You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. The post <strong>Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?</strong>

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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Evaluating Your Board Meeting Agenda to Boost Productivity

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However, most of what makes for a productive board meeting happens before the meeting is even called to order. . If you’re looking for ways to evaluate your current agendas and optimize them for efficiency, you’ve come to the right place! Whether you’re strategizing about.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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This methodology was used to evaluate expanding the American Board of Medical Specialties, ABMS CertLink®, platform into new markets. When you tailor your product to its consumers, competition becomes irrelevant. Blue Ocean Strategy was used to evaluate the potential for promoting the product to new markets.

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Make Space—Lighten the Load for Your Heavy Lifters

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Because they have an intimate knowledge of products and services. When you give people time for reflection, evaluation, and creativity you develop a new crop of leaders. I’ve never heard of an association that thought they made a mistake sun setting a program.” Circling back to our middle managers,” Sharon noted.

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Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting

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In the absence of knowledge of what the right thing is, your Board is probably swinging in the dark because they truly don’t know what is expected of them. I’d like to hear from our other members, though, so they can speak without being influenced by your knowledge or experience.” What’s on the Agenda?

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

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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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