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# Questions for Association Executives: #1 The Impact of CrowdThinking

**URL:** https://jimcarroll.com/2016/10/questions-for-association-executives-1-the-impact-of-crowdthinking/
Date: 2016-10-24
Author: JimCarroll
Post Type: post
Summary: The Canadian Society of Association Executives had me write a series of articles with some of the unique challenges presented to associations in the context of fast-trends. Over the new week, I’ll play out these articles in a series of blog posts. They provide good food for though! Over 20 years, I’ve keynoted numerous association […]
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The Canadian Society of Association Executives had me write a series of articles with some of the unique challenges presented to associations in the context of fast-trends. Over the new week, I'll play out these articles in a series of blog posts. They provide good food for though!

[caption id="attachment_14937" align="aligncenter" width="560"][![Your future members will work in industries, businesses and organizations that evolve faster in terms of their focus, products, services and mandates - what are you doing to challenge your mandate to deal with that?](/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Crowdthinking550.jpg)](/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Crowdthinking550.jpg) Your future members will work in industries, businesses and organizations that evolve faster in terms of their focus, products, services and mandates - what are you doing to challenge your mandate to deal with that?[/caption]

Over 20 years, I've keynoted numerous association and meeting professional events. Check the Association section (under Trends) of my Web site for more!

**Crowd Thinking**

Crowd thinking has replaced most forms of peer research. Most long established medical and science journals have transitioned - big time - accepting a new form of instant crowd thinking as
the best way to evaluate the new world hyper-science. In an instant, a researcher can summon acrowd of vetted, quality specialists who have niche knowledge in a rapidly changing field.

The result? A further acceleration of knowledge and in the pace of the discovery of new ideas and concepts. The impact? Massive velocity in the development of new technologies,pharmaceuticals, medical devices and forms of treatment, agricultural concepts an methodologies — every industry and profession has seen a profound shift bigger than the once amazing macro-knowledge burst of the Manhattan project.

**Questions for Association Leaders:**

 	- Are you capable of migrating the professional education component of our role, so that rapid advances with crowd thinking become part of the curriculum/training?

 	-  How quickly will the acceleration of knowledge that comes from crowd thinking challenge our professional skill set?

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