One of my test-market campaigns is to sell in Open Space (real community) to the virtual crowd. Here's today's attempt at one of the most influential egroups - http://www.egroups.com/group/com-prac
I guess if anyone newly gets any work from these folk they'll send me an Easter bunny! ---------------------------------------------------- Ivan's statement that "It starts at the top" is commonly accepted as a requirement for successful organizational change. It's so accepted as true that we rarely even think about it. A reply from Chris Macrae, vt: The way we see is that there are two first parties in any organisation that is going to emerge as sustainable and co-creational in knowledge/network age 1) Hierarchy, the top which also goes under other names like strategy and tangible accounting 2) And the first knowledge (net)working mode. This is different in different organisational context. It may be CoPs. It is often teams. In funny industries such as venture capital I have known it to be personal-social networks. And in government, it is probably some transparent network across organisations most safety vital knowledge flow. SO MY CONTROVERSIAL REMARK: It doesn't start at the top , it starts at the structural interaction between the top and the first knowledge (net)working mode. And this structural interaction is systemised by putting in some wholly new and context specific (visual) metrics unlike those that the top's professional advisers have NEVER seen nor trusted before, as well as tailoring some kind of sharing platform which could be through virtual technologies Though I have to say after 10 years of observing experiments as someone wholly independent of any technology platform : I don't know how to implement that with virtual alone, instead I would always introduce something virtual-communing (even something as simple as organisation-wide email) with a one day real communing method involving everyone (open space being my benchmark intervention though maybe that's because I have studied how many hundreds of OS cases have helped large groups of people pass through the eye of big conflict and sustain all for another day's social networking; it may be there are other real facilitation methods that dare do that too?) Chris Macrae Mapmaker www.valuetrue.com wcbn...@easynet.co.uk uk mobile (0)793 144 2446 * * ========================================================== 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