What makes OST work ???

[Morten Gaarde]

Dear,

We’re two Danish students who are working on our graduate thesis (studing
Organization and management at the Aarhus School of Business
http://www.hha.dk/INDEX_UK.HTM). Our topic is “Open Space technology” and
we would like to get some deeper knowledge about this topic by asking you
for help.

We have access to a Danish Company who has worked with OST in the past
year. The company has about 100 employees and deals with producing, selling
and distributing organic vegetables, meat and fruits to private homes in
Denmark on a weekly basis (from soil/farm to consumer). They deal with the
whole value chain: from farming to consumer.

The company had an OST in the spring and are going to have another one
within the next 3-4 months.

The purpose of our thesis is to find answers on the following questions:

1. What makes OST work so well (which theories can explain the good
results with OST) ?
2. What can enhance the outcome of an OST meeting  ?

The answers to those questions should give us the ability to make some
guidelines / recommendations to the next OST.

The company has given us access to the employees so we can make some
qualitative interviews of those persons who participated in the last OST.
Those interviews will hopefully give us answers to the questions above.

The next challenge is to find the questions which will answer those
question.

During your work with OST have you some idea of:

1. What makes OST work so well ?
2. Which topics would you focus on in a interview / theories ?
3. Which questions would you ask the persons to make sure you get the
answers needed ?

We look forward to hear from you. And of course we’ll make a final report
in English and publish it in the OST-network


Best regards

Frank H. Nielsen and Morten Gaarde

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