{"id":5980,"date":"2011-07-04T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=5980"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T23:46:22","slug":"co-opetition-among-co-operatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=5980","title":{"rendered":"Co-opetition among co-operatives."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CUAs an editor of the CU Water Cooler, I will be writing occasional discussion posts<\/a> there for a general credit union audience. My first one is on Nurturing Co-opetition.<\/p>\n

I first leaned of this term from Scott Baldwin<\/a> several years back when he was a peer at North Shore Credit Union (he’s now at our central, Central1<\/a>). I instantly liked this term, because I knew that co-operatives competed in a different way than corporations. It’s also a term I heard a lot in Bologna<\/a>. <\/p>\n

We all have co-opetition in our lives. Kids do it in gym class, we do it when we play a board game with friends, and at Vancity we do it when we have a friendly competition between branches to hit a sales target. It’s a friendly competition when we’re not out to crush the competition, we actually want to see all competitors do well, we just want to do slightly<\/em> better than them. That’s the way I feel about other CUs.<\/p>\n

I chair the Direct Banking Strategy Committee at Central1, which is a way for BC CUs to co-operate in planning the future of MemberDirect<\/a>, the online\/mobile banking platform provided by Central1, and used by literally all credit unions in BC. I chose this as a great example of co-operative principle number six – co-operation among co-operatives – and the first of what I picture as a three-parter at the CU Water Cooler. Enjoy, and let me know what you think. <\/p>\n

NOTE: Here is the CU Chat Up<\/a> radio show I just did with Carla Day<\/a> and Jimmy Marks<\/a>.
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Listen to internet radio<\/a> with Carla Day<\/a> on Blog Talk Radio<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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