by Jamie Notter | Apr 30, 2010 | Social Media, Strategy
Last Monday I suggested that strategic planning is skewed (in an unhealthy way) towards relevance. On Wednesday, I made the case that social media has some lessons for us in this area–the way social media uses continuous listening reveals a missing link in...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 21, 2010 | Social Media, Strategy
Monday's post talked about the relationship between strategic planning and relevance. In short, the typical process we use for strategic planning (scan-plan-implement-evaluate) actually skews us towards remaining merely relevant, as opposed to advancing our...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 19, 2010 | Strategy
This was one of the epiphanies I came to in preparing for the session Maddie Grant and I did in California last week. For years I had been trying to make the argument that strategic planning was dead. The process, while well intended, wasn't producing consistently...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 19, 2010 | Strategy
This was one of the epiphanies I came to in preparing for the session Maddie Grant and I did in California last week. For years I had been trying to make the argument that strategic planning was dead. The process, while well intended, wasn't producing consistently...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 23, 2010 | Leadership, Strategy
I love the association community, but I don't like our obsession with "best practices." Having said that, I have to admit that I get some benefit from the obsession. Volunteer Boards I think get a lot of comfort out of the idea–that we, the...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 22, 2010 | Announcements, Leadership, Strategy
In September, I wrote a blog post titled "Relevance Is Not Enough." Building off the writing of Jeff De Cagna and Maddie Grant, I made the argument that being relevant to members will not drive growth. It was one of my favorite posts, and it struck a chord...
