Susan, I have used OST for Strategic Planning a number of times when leaders realize that intelligence/forecasting about the future must come from the collective and that any future action will naturally come through those who take responsibility for their passion. Have you checked out Glenda Eoyang's Adaptive Action Planning as an alternative to traditional SP http://www.hsdinstitute.org/e-clarity/asp_documents_0001/Documents_Publish/1 00.pdf? Her comparison might be helpful when introducing OST. Best of luck, Christine Christine Whitney Sanchez CWS - Collaborative Wisdom & Strategy 2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85048-8990 480.759.0262 www.christinewhitneysanchez.com <http://www.christinewhitneysanchez.com/>
_____ From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Susan M Kerr Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:36 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Introducing OST for strategic planning - Question Hi Everyone, Does anyone have experience with using OST for strategic planning for an organization? If so, how did you would you introduce it to the leaders of the organization in order to use it for this? I'm not new to this list but still new to using OST. While I've experienced it Harrison, Michael H, and others, I haven't experienced it within an organization for problem solving. My role in my company is to manage training for one small section of the company (700 employees out of 26,000) and I have only used parts of OST or on a very small scale. Yesterday out of the blue, the VP of Org Dev called me to ask me if I thought OST could be used at their upcoming strategic planning meeting where 20 - 30 strategic leaders will be meeting for 1 day I believe. He asked me if I would be willing to meet with himself and one other leader responsible to plan this meeting to explain what OST is and how it could be used for this. He specifically asked for: What OST is How OST can be used What could work for strategic planning What might not work The "wrench" he threw into it that I don't quite know what to do with is that they are considering bringing in "experts" in social trends and healthcare/business trends to present to this group of strategic planners and allow them time for Q&A of these experts. Then there would be time for priority setting/developing the strategic plan. He was thinking of OST for the latter phase. I welcome any thoughts or coaching from this group! I followed some of the recent conversations on "experts" in OST sessions and understand that purpose of holding two day open space (I think I do, anyway) but am not sure if it could be accomplished in one day and if this is a situation to use it in or not. Thank you! I look forward to hearing from you. Peace, Susan _____ See what's new at AOL.com <http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170> and Make AOL Your Homepage <http://www.aol.com/mksplash.adp?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001169> . * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist