Holger – Amen, Amen! Great stuff, albeit the language is a little tortured (eg “instantiate”). Oh well it is wonderful when insight breaks through by whatever the means, source, or linguistic gymnastics. Why don’t you host an Open Space on Crowd Sourcing? That could be fun.
Harrison Harrison Owen 189 Beaucaire Ave Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 (Summer) 301-365-2093 (Winter) Website www.openspaceworld.com Personal Website www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Holger Nauheimer (Change Facilitation) Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Crowdsourcing and large systems change Today, I found a great blog post which links large systems change with the concept of crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing for Employee, Customer and Stakeholder Engagement: http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/08/13/crowdsourcing-for-employee-customer-and-stakeholder-engagement/ Crowdsourcing as a technique for gathering useful information stems from the concepts outlined in The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki. Obviously, this is what OST practioners (and those applying other large group intervention techniques) have been doing for the last 20 years. Now we have a new label for it! :) "The job of a leader in today’s hyperlinked and transparent organizational world is to instantiate the crowd’s intelligence and / or wisdom with a clearly-stated and purposeful mission and objective, and then listen ! This is where social software and methods like crowdsourcing can shine. They can and I believe will, eventually, replace or augment even the most sophisticated culture change initiative or surveys and diagnostics." Amen! * * ========================================================== [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 * * ========================================================== [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
