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2/1/12

Foresights Exemplified – Hello, Nonprofit Business Model

As consultants, we have the privileged opportunity to learn from each customer engagement.  We also practice at our professions. After all that’s what it means to be a practitioner. Each consulting engagement provides a forum for me to hone my associative thinking skills – an opportunity to make connections across ideas and customers – and […]

By Karla RainesRead More

1/31/12

State of Our Cities and Towns

We always like to see our research in action. We especially liked the Colorado Municipal League’s (CML) recent videos highlighting the findings (pdf) from the most recent edition of the State of Our Cities and Towns for Colorado. Not everyone absorbs information by reading graphs and tables or even text in a report. Producing an easy […]

By David KennedyRead More

1/30/12

Colorado Symphony: Act 3, Scene 1

Lately I’ve been intrigued by the Harvard Business Review article “Strategy Tools for a Shifting Landscape” by Michael G. Jacobides (January 2010) in which he makes the case for a narrative approach to strategy analysis. Jacobides writes, “In an age when nothing is constant, strategy should be defined by narrative – plots, subplots, and characters.” […]

By Karla RainesRead More

1/25/12

Corona in action

What better way to learn about the quality work Corona does than through the experiences of our various customers? Check out our updated Case Studies to see Corona in action. Over the years, Corona has helped a wide array of customers through market research and strategic consulting answer the questions most important to them, and […]

By Meredith BadlerRead More

1/24/12

1001th Project

As we closed the books on 2011, Corona was also wrapping up their 1001th project. We love numbers here at Corona, so could not let this milestone go unrecognized. We were pleased to learn that lucky project #1001 was for the Iliff School of Theology. Corona has engaged with Iliff since 2007 when we created […]

By Meredith BadlerRead More

1/20/12

Next Era Nonprofits: Upcoming SVP Workshop

We’re in an era of profound and broad change for the nonprofit sector.  In fact, this may be the most dynamic period the sector has experienced in two decades.  Not only are the rules for success being rewritten, we’re thinking anew about what to call the sector, who is in the sector, and what defines […]

By Karla RainesRead More