OS & Evidence based practice

[BJ Peters]

Jon-- There are a number of us on this list who sometimes use OST in
conjunction with Appreciative Inquiry (AI). Briefly, AI is about
discovering what's working in the organization, and teasing out the
factors that contribute to the success. These discoveries seed the
vision and design process to create more of the same.

When I use this combination of AI/OST, I use the discovery and dream
phases of AI. For the design and destiny phases of AI, I move into open
space.

If you want more on this, I'd be happy to talk with you off list. Best
--BJ


BJ Peters
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of nonviolence moves - gently, gentlier, gentliest."
-- Dwarko Sundrani, last active disciple of Mahatma Gandhi

On Saturday, November 6, 2004, at 04:43 AM, Jon Harvey wrote:

> Hallo
>
> I work in the field of public services - and I have a potential client
> who
> wants help to discover what works in the field of community safety.
> Specifically they coordinate a number of projects thoughout a large
> city
> here in the UK - and they have conducted some recent evaluations of 4
> of
> their major projects. However - the evaluations did not discover what
> were
> the critical success factors to the 4 projects - in other words - why
> ~did~
> they work? They need this info - so that they can apply the learning to
> future projects.
>
> So they are looking for a meta evaluation of the 4 projects - to try
> and
> identify what are the 'differences that make the difference' between
> success
> and failure in this complex field of social interventions to increase
> community safety.
>
> Easy huh!
>
> I am keen to use OS to work with the client all the stakeholders to
> help
> them achieve this. Why? Why OS? Well (obviously) I value and like the
> process hugely. Secondly - I believe they need an innovative process
> (beyond
> the standard research evaluation that they have already used) to dig
> down
> deeper (and deeper) to discover the essence of the evidence based
> practice.
>
> So... my enquiry is this - has anyone out there had any experience of
> using
> OS in such a way - I would be most interested to hear your experiences
> -
> whatever you can share.
>
> Time is of the essence - I have to finish writing the proposal in
> about 24
> hours time - so any info I need before then. (By the way - has OS ever
> been
> used to help procurement professionals to have a slightly less anally
> retentive view of the world?!!)
>
> All thoughts most welcome. Many thanks
>
> Jon Harvey
> Oxford
> UK
>
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