Alarm bells are sounding around the country regarding proposed reform legislation affecting occupational licensing. While the spirit of these bills may be to protect public interests, the reality is that the language used often models anti-occupational licensing or anti-certification themes sponsored or endorsed by special interest groups. The concern has…
Altai’s recent joint webinar with ReviewMyAMS, Selfie Culture’s Effect on Member Engagement, explored the idea of how the selfie phenomenon has given a voice, a visual representation, to many – most notably to previously marginalized groups. The youngest generation of social media users, Generation Z, has become particularly adept at…
The final blog post in our Digital Transformation series focuses on the idea of transforming impact to accelerate an organization’s mission. Organizations today need to be able to anticipate their members’ demands, expand their reach and develop new solutions to better meet their membership’s needs. They need agile decision-making tools…
The next installment of our Digital Transformation blog series involves Optimizing Operations. By automating mundane tasks and driving business efficiencies to a Cloud platform, an organization will inherently optimize their operations and accelerate their responsiveness. The Cloud provides previously unprecedented flexibility for all your IT operations that can be specifically designed…
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This deeper dive into the 2nd Key referenced in the Tips for Launching a Digital Transformation in an Analog World blog focuses on Empowering Staff Productivity. An empowered staff is a workforce that feels inspired to create and explore new ideas. They have the motivation to work on behalf of…
In our previous blog post, Tips for Launching a Digital Transformation in an Analog World, we referenced that there are Four Keys to Digital Transformation: Engage Members Empower Employees Optimize Operations Transform Products and Services The first key, Engage Members, is something that associations and nonprofits wrestle with on a…
For many of us currently using Microsoft Office 365, the Skype for Business feature has become the instant messenger of choice when trying to reach our fellow team mates. It quickly lets us know who is online, available, in a meeting or otherwise busy and others can likewise see your…
Going to a public place and passively people watching used to be a fun pastime. In the not-so-distant past you might have seen a group of teenage girls giggling while checking out a cute boy from their class or two business professionals walking by, talking to each other about a…
Data protection is an important topic at the forefront of many in the IT industry. In the European Union (EU) the clock is ticking toward a major shakeup in the way data is collected and protected. Organizations in the EU, and globally, are scrambling to understand the requirements and ramifications…
Why Transform? Years ago, we started working with an association that thought they wanted to upgrade to a progressive association management solution (AMS) like Altai’s. They only offered yearly memberships and hosted one event annually. Their membership was comprised of individuals who participated in a historical event, and their membership…
Altai has built its Association Management System (AMS) on the foundation of three principles: Content, Commerce, and Community. Featured here is Commerce. While associations and nonprofits, by design, do not produce “profits,” they still need to generate revenues to function. Commerce is the backbone of an organization’s revenue stream. By…