Open space technology in action – defining business priorities
I wrote about the group known as the management system of the Open Space Technology (OST) at the beginning and now I can consider my 1st real experience of its use.
In this case, I was asked to facilitate a meeting with a large consulting and IT services (Atos Origin). The aim was to help produce some of the organizations to adopt the strategy. As expected when working with large multi-party and the organization will be a particularly complex challenge because of its mix of history of the organization, processes and cultures. I spent the better part of a week doing the usual thing, clarifying objectives, setting the agenda, taking accaount of the hearing, the planning image and the development of key themes. To be honest, it’sa bit complicated and I realized that I had to do something different to make this event a success. So I went to TMB.
OST offers a method to run meetings of groups of any size. ( “Technology” means in this case tools – a process, a method).. OST is a self-organization, to participate in the construction of the agenda and timetable of the meeting itself. Proponents argue that allowing people of various OST something to address the complex and perhaps controversial topics.
OST enables groups of any size to address complex, important issues and achieve results quickly. It outperforms more traditional formats not reunification in situations of conflict, complexity, diversity of thought and individuals, and decisions in the short span of time. People who have widely used in different situations, from designing aircraft doors of a large company manufacturing aircraft for the participation of street children in the definition of a program of sustainable jobs.
OST meetings have a single moderator who opened and concluded the meeting and explained the general method. The host has no other role in the meeting and has no control over the collection anyway. There are some key elements and a single standard used when using PSO I return.
It does the job? For me, the answer is an unequivocal yes. The group arrived with no idea what was going to do. In 10 minutes we had a good ongoing discussion and not more than 30 minutes we had a program in which the rest of the day focused. Comments of the group was great and have a specific list of actions and activities which have to cope with. Next week I’m working on a major conference for 300 professionals in sales and marketing. I am very tempted to quit the program and run with them!
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