This is a post I wrote for Association Success which was just released yesterday. Here's a taste. The rest can be found here, where you'll read about structures entrepreneurs use for creating and utilizing their vision for practical purposes.

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When it comes to becoming a more innovative organization and leveraging today’s technological advancements for the overall betterment of the association and its operations, it all starts with the vision.

Just look at how the tech stack comes out of the organization’s vision and their strategic plan. It might be very well worth borrowing philosophies from outside the industry.

When you look into associations and entrepreneurship, for example, there’s this battle between how risky we want to be versus how agile we want to be; associations generally aren’t big risk takers. However, there’s no reason associations can’t adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset and use certain valuable methodologies for their benefits...

More here: https://www.associationsuccess.org/article/aligning-vision-with-technology