Jon-- There are a number of us on this list who sometimes use OST in conjunction with Appreciative Inquiry (AI). Briefly, AI is about discovering what's working in the organization, and teasing out the factors that contribute to the success. These discoveries seed the vision and design process to create more of the same.
When I use this combination of AI/OST, I use the discovery and dream phases of AI. For the design and destiny phases of AI, I move into open space. If you want more on this, I'd be happy to talk with you off list. Best --BJ BJ Peters [email protected] 602.279.4805 "The path of violence moves - sharp, sharper, sharpest, while the path of nonviolence moves - gently, gentlier, gentliest." -- Dwarko Sundrani, last active disciple of Mahatma Gandhi On Saturday, November 6, 2004, at 04:43 AM, Jon Harvey wrote:
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 * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
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