{"id":5553,"date":"2016-03-15T02:24:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T06:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2016-03-15T02:24:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T06:24:34","slug":"develop-new-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/develop-new-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Developing New Ideas Is a Fluid Process for Associations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With this week&#8217;s\u00a0ASAE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatideasconference.org\" target=\"_blank\">Great Ideas Conference<\/a>\u00a0just completed, we thought we\u2019d ask readers how their organizations develop new ideas. We thought formal structures were the way not-for-profit organizations developed new ideas, but results of our unscientific reader poll indicate otherwise.<br \/>\n<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Nearly half of respondents (44 percent) said the process was \u201cAd hoc\u201d on an as-needed basis, while another one in four respondents (25 percent) said new ideas were the result of suggestions from members and volunteers. Nearly one in five respondents (19 percent) told us new ideas were the result of focus groups, member surveys, market research or other means, and just 13 percent said they assigned formal task forces and committees to develop new ideas.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5567 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/AA-March-2016-Did-You-Know.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"500\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/AA-March-2016-Did-You-Know.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/AA-March-2016-Did-You-Know-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>Russ Webb<\/strong>, vice president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atl-apt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Atlanta Apartment Association<\/strong><\/a> explained in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/index.php\/russ-webb\/\">Corner Office<\/a> interview, \u201cWe\u2019re always looking for ideas from inside and outside the organization. I read somewhere that there\u2019s no such thing as a new idea. If we see another organization that we think is doing something spectacular, we will try to emulate it and put our own twist on it. We\u2019re big advocates of working <strong>smarter<\/strong>, not <strong>harder<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on our poll results, AAA has lots of company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe association world needs to adapt faster than the regular business world because our members are looking for us for innovation. We need to innovate all the time,\u201d added Webb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thought formal structures were the way not-for-profit organizations develop new ideas, but results of our unscientific reader poll indicate otherwise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,63],"tags":[1019,1020,628,1021,367,1022,642],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polls","category-did-you-know","tag-ad-hoc-ideas","tag-association-planning","tag-brainstorming","tag-develop-new-ideas","tag-great-ideas","tag-idea-generation","tag-new-ideas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Developing New Ideas is Is a Fluid Process for 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