Dear Colleagues, I would hope that our dream of a truly liberated life of Open World become easier from this year!
Korean Version of Wave Rider ready to meet readers early March Our year-long effort of translating Wave Rider into Korean has ended and is going to meet Korean readership early March. I invited Mgr. Jung, a high- level manager, of SEC (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.) to an opportunity to write a recommendation letter for the book. He came to OS forum early in 2009. He was pleased to take the job and invited us, myself and Jackie, to his workplace in Suwon, a two-hour ride southward from Seoul. Our visitation to VIP (Value Innovation Program) Center of SEC We found out that he was one of the starting staff of VIP center which has been functioning as the growth engine of SEC since 1998 right after IMF crisis hit Korea. At the heart of the center is Value Growth. Knowing that SEC is now the leader (Number 1 in Revenue in the Industry globally) in the Electronics & Electrical Products Manufacturing industry globally the center must have performed its mission (Value Growth) successfully. As the growth engine for SEC, the center has been turning SEC into a top- down-based learning organization that has facilitated learning and practicing multi-facets of VALUE ENGINEERING from various approaches (value formulae or success formulae) that have been tested and worked elsewhere in the world including a host of certified value engineering programs such as Russian TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), GVE (Group Value Engineering), Value Innovation, Value Functional Team etc. He inspired Fortune magazine to cover SEC's successful application of TRIZ. Now, SEC has realized that there's nowhere to learn and now it's time to CREATE its own success formulae. He seems to think OST can do the job in the future. Corporate Environment that Blocks His Trial of OST He has tried OST in SEC by running his own meeting with his staff. He was discouraged or disappointed, however, by corporate atmosphere (his peers and colleagues) that psychologically blocks trial of uncertified methods and practices (uncertain territory); an experience of bad feeling. Throughout the visitation he expressed need of Certification program for Wave Rider (or OST). He also stressed that once the certification program is launched it can attract not only VIP (Value Innovation Program) Center of SEC but also other emergent world-class companies from Korea such as other Samsung companies, Hyundai, LG, Daewoo etc. I truly think this has worldwide implication. Aligning needs of corporate workers with needs of expanding use of OST/WR (Strong Request from SEC) - Certificates for graduates of WR course authenticated by worldwide Open Space Community (symbolically represented by HO or anyone he recommends). - An Intranet-based WR Software Package using 8 Steps of Wave Riding with growing database on Wave Riding (OS cases and other cases of self- organization). - Transformation of too-structured high performing rigid SEC system into a High Performing Human System. Our First Take 1. Commemorate coming of WR by announcing launching of 3-Day Wave Rider Training program (certification program for graduates) with publication of Korean version WR as a formal invitation for every reader. 2. Open Space Korea will contribute six percent of the WR Certification program income to OS community for OSONOS including access queen and other OS initiatives such as exploring OS in cyberspace and massive transformation. We consider the request from SEC for Certification as a user request for Empowerment for trying the new. And I trust the Certification Program will help remove barriers (especially in Asian ethos and mythos) to encourage Wave-riders to try Open Space at their hardwired workplace. The certification and WR book will serve as formal invitation to Truly Fulfilling Life: a Chaordic Dance. I also hope that this help us (entire OS community now and future) sustain our journey and enjoy more OSONOSes worldwide. As we always do, any idea will enrich feasibility of this WR Certificate program. You are surely invited! Thanking You All, S Spark Open Space Institute of Korea, Open Quest Squad 3rd Fl., Samkyung Bldg., 372-10, Seokyo-dong, Mapo-gu, 121-210, Seoul, Korea [email protected] Phone: 82-2-353-6356 Mobile: 82-10-7247-0636 <http://www.openspace.kr> http://www.openspace.kr <http://www.openspaceworld.org> http://www.openspaceworld.org <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology <http://www.artofhosting.org> http://www.artofhosting.org "High Play, High Learning"-> High Performance * * ========================================================== [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
