question on open space origins

[chris macrae]

Harrison - Thanks it's interesting to know that the first open space
beyond the annual event was a commercial innovation area

I have digested pre-work is generally a waste of space. Presumably the
invitation is another topic. I have had the impression that sometimes
you have done quite a lot of work on a white paper (or whatever) so as
to stir up invitations and connections across potentially a broad range
of perspectives so that the space welcomes the right (diversity of)
people?

chris

From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Harrison Owen
Sent: 12 April 2005 11:08
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: question on open space origins

The first time I used Open Space, other than with the International
Symposium on Organization Transformation was with Dupont. It involved
some
175 polymer chemists on the re-design of a major product line. That was
in
the summer of 1989.

 As for pre-work with Open Space, I have never found anything that
usefully
added much.

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