Eina wrote: thanks Harrison, could you give (or others) an example for this sort of Planning in OS?" I suggested she put the question online, but she seems to be having some difficulty. So I do it myself.
I can think of many examples, but two have some write up - The first one is Rockport Shoes where the whole corporation was involved in a 2 day open space on the corporate future. The New York Times did a nice full page story which you can reach in their archives. What caught my attention was not the plan produced but the positive actions that took place before the 1st day of Open Space had concluded. In a word the merger of planning/doing. Specifically, one group created a whole new product with manufacturing space reserved, finance available, marketing plan in place - with an estimated ROI of $25,000,000. At the same time another group did a fix to the inventory system with a net saving of $4,000,000. In short $29,000,000 added to the bottom line - which represented a 10% increase. Not bad for the first day! And the significant thing for me was that there wasn't a hair's breadth between planning and doing. Talk about reducing "time to market." The second example was the AT&T Olympic pavilion. The final product was the building design - which was complete in two days. No planning for the Design. You can find descriptions of this in my book "Wave Rider" - and a shorter whirl in my TEDX talk "Dancing with Shiva" which you can find on YouTube. Harrison Winter Address 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucauire Ave Camden, ME 04843 207 763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com
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