Collection of worldwide OS stories

[Michael Herman]

yes, holger, great idea and good luck!  i think the gathering will be
a job in itself, even before the converting.  if you haven't already
figured out how you'll go about storing what you gather, i just remind
you that the www.openspaceworld.NET wiki workspace exists for exactly
this sort of project and purpose.  there for you or anyone to use on
projects that use or support ost.  michael



On 5/8/05, Change Management Toolbook
<holger at change-management-toolbook.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> a couple of months ago, I did a global survey on the practice of Change
> Management approaches, available at
>
> The Practice and Future of Change Management.
> A Comparative Survey.
> http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/res/Reports.html
>
> One of the striking results was that OST was one of the least known
> methodologies applied for Change Management processes. 48% of all 562
> respondents (mainly Change Management practitioners) had never heard
> of OST and only 18% apply it in their work!
>
> I am dedicated to changing that figure, with your help. As I was browsing
> through the OST archives, beginning from 1998, I found a lot of
> interesting and compelling stories from the field, which gave birth to an
> idea:
>
> I would like to collect stories of Open Space workshops, compile them in a
> nice PDF document and make it available to the public. My start
> will be to announce the document in my newsletter, which is currently read
> by more than 6,000 people in 160 countries of the world. And, of course,
> everybody who wants to use this document for their own purposes, will be
> welcomed to share it with their networks, use it as a marketing tool, etc.
> It will be open source and free of charge.
>
> I have found already a couple of nice stories in the archives, e.g. the
> wonderful report of Peggy about the OS in Colombia. I will approach the
> respective authors individually and ask them for reprint permission.
>
> Meanwhile I would like to ask everybody in this list to browse your files
> and contribute your best OS stories. As the document is mainly intended
> for people who have not heard from OST so far, it should be stories that
> explain the background of the assignment, the client, the process and the
> outcomes. If you have digital photos to go along, this would be fine. Of
> course every article will have a short bio of yourself and your contact
> details, so that people who live in your country can directly connect with
> you. Articles should not have more that 2-3 pages. However, if you are in
> time stress, please send your old articles and I would do a little bit of
> editing. You might even send some stories in other languages, such as
> Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hebrew, etc. (I fear I will not be able to
> do the editing for most of these languages, so it would be great if you
> attach a short summary in English).
>
> Please do not send you articles by "reply to this message", but directly to
> holger at change-management-toolbook.com
>
> Thanks in advance and looking forward to a nice collection of stories.
>
> Best regards,
> Holger Nauheimer
> The Change Management Toolbook
> http://www.change-management-toolbook.com
>
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