Thank you Harrison - that is a wonderful affirmation Jon
-----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Harrison Owen Sent: 06 November 2004 13:51 To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: OS & Evidence based practice I can't think of any examples of applications just as you describe -- but I would argue that every OS is in fact such research. A number of years ago I did an Open Space for the Executive MBA program at City University (London). This was for all current students, faculty and guests. I don't remember the theme exactly, but it was something like "What are we going to do with the rest of our lives now that we have an MBA" Obviously a topic worthy of serious research. One of the guests was the gentleman who created Action Research (Reg ?). He was well along in years at that point and I found myself sitting next to him on the sidelines (Butterflying). He was smiling and silent -- just nodding his head as he watched the goings-on. After a bit we struck up a conversation -- and his first comment was something like, "This is wonderful -- it is everything that I had hoped Action Research would be." ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Jon Harvey Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:44 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: OS & Evidence based practice Hallo I work in the field of public services - and I have a potential client who wants help to discover what works in the field of community safety. Specifically they coordinate a number of projects thoughout a large city here in the UK - and they have conducted some recent evaluations of 4 of their major projects. However - the evaluations did not discover what were the critical success factors to the 4 projects - in other words - why ~did~ they work? They need this info - so that they can apply the learning to future projects. So they are looking for a meta evaluation of the 4 projects - to try and identify what are the 'differences that make the difference' between success and failure in this complex field of social interventions to increase community safety. Easy huh! I am keen to use OS to work with the client all the stakeholders to help them achieve this. Why? Why OS? Well (obviously) I value and like the process hugely. Secondly - I believe they need an innovative process (beyond the standard research evaluation that they have already used) to dig down deeper (and deeper) to discover the essence of the evidence based practice. So... my enquiry is this - has anyone out there had any experience of using OS in such a way - I would be most interested to hear your experiences - whatever you can share. Time is of the essence - I have to finish writing the proposal in about 24 hours time - so any info I need before then. (By the way - has OS ever been used to help procurement professionals to have a slightly less anally retentive view of the world?!!) All thoughts most welcome. Many thanks Jon Harvey Oxford UK * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
