Harrison, thank you for your help, great. Thomas
Sent from my iPhone > On 8 jan 2015, at 22:48, "Harrison Owen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thomas -- I suspicion that not only is OS possible, but probably the only > way to provide sufficient latitude for innovation combined with the > essential focus to deliver something useful. And a group of 8-10 is > certainly possible. BUT why the limit if there is all that other talent? > That would be the 90 other folks who might just care to join in??? > > As you know the start up time for an Open Space is about 1 and 1/2 hours, > then with the exception of a short time in the am (morning news) and > something similar in the evening (Evening News) -- everything else just > spreads itself naturally over the time available. > > So it is quite possible, indeed I have done it on multiple occasions, to > basically make the whole company Open Space for the period. True, you do > have to have an large meeting at the beginning -- but from there on out > everybody sets their own schedule and thusly can integrate it with whatever > else they need to do (client business, etc). > > I have done this in hospitals, power companies, and phone companies where > you can't shut the whole thing down but it is possible to find a time when > most people can get together for a short period. This usually turns out to > be a the change of shifts times -- and one shift stays an hour longer, and > the other comes in an hour earlier -- and presto... you have two hours > together, which is more than sufficient to get the ball rolling. > > There are some complications, but people do work it out, as they always seem > to do. And usually the whole place is just buzzing with a level of > excitement that is rarely if ever seen on a "normal" business day. Fun! > > Harrison > > Winter Address > 7808 River Falls Drive > Potomac, MD 20854 > 301-365-2093 > > Summer Address > 189 Beaucaire Ave. > Camden, ME 04843 > 207-763-3261 > > Websites > www.openspaceworld.com > www.ho-image.com > OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > OSLIST Go > to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: OSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Thomas Perret via OSList > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 12:55 PM > To: [email protected] email list > Subject: [OSList] Open Space for innovation with group of 8? > > Hi friends, > > I would like some help. > > I have been approached by a company who wants to find innovations within a > certain technology. They are looking to have a team of 8-10 working for 2 or > 3 days, and they have invited me to give them a suggestion for how to go > about it. > > My questions: > > 1. Do you think OS is the best approach with only 8 people and this kind of > mission? If not, how would you go about it? If yes, how have you had it > work? > 2. There are over 100 people in the company - how could one utilise this > potential for the purpose without having to release everybody from client > work for 2-3 days? > 3. They would really want to explore new innovations more broadly, but are > looking, for now, to look within a certain technology because they fear > being more general will give less results. Thoughts on this? > > Gratefully, > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an > email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
