Tova, I remember a story from Harrison's collection, Tales from Open Space about a "large avionics company" using Open Space to downsize. The book is online at http://www.openspaceworld.com/tales.htm.
The story I'm thinking of is Open Space: An Organization Transition Methodology by Hugh Huntington. Here's the opening paragraph: A large avionics defense plant was in two major transitions. The first was a down-sizing from 2400 to 1600 people, reflecting the cutback in Department of Defense (DOD) expenditures. The second was a total reorganization from a traditional, autocratic management system that reflected both internal corporate philosophy and DOD expectations to a team-based structure. This meant the removal of four of the seven levels of management and supervision within the plant. The switch to the new organizational structure was to begin in 3 weeks, to be completed within 8 weeks. Management had made a commitment to their corporate office to move ahead. Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Averbuch" <averb...@post.tau.ac.il> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 9:22 PM Subject: using OS for organizational designing and structuring > Dearest friends of the list, > > Did anyone use OS with management/senior team/whole system to redesign > changes in organizational structure? > still tossing and turning with how and when in the process to use > ost, with > whom, etc/(high teck client, needs change done as of yesterday). > will deeply appreciate any relevant experience, soon > > thanks > Tova averbuch > > averb...@post.tau.ac.il > > Israel > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
