OST and strategic planning: a late comment

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Yes. Kerry's story will help numerous open spacer users help corporate
clients overcome their fear of unknowns of OST. 

Productive Peace at work, :-)

park

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Harrison
Owen
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:10 AM
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Subject: Re: OST and strategic planning: a late comment

Much better late than never! Truly a great story!! But what you didn't admit
to is that you are now working less -- a lot less. Not that you don't have
any more business, but rather that you have joined in that ultimate scam we
call Open Space. The client does all the work and even writes the report!
Well done!

Harrison 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of kerry
napuk
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:07 PM
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Subject: OST and strategic planning: a late comment

Hi

Just returned to the UK after six weeks celebrating the 50th anniversary of
ON THE ROAD with my son, David, through nine western states and 5,500 miles.
While shaking out the dust, I stumbled across the theme on OS and strategic
planning.  Please forgive these late comments about a subject close to my
heart.

Having served on 15 boards, I realised there must be something more to life
than growing another 5 to 10% next year.  After considerable research, I
discovered there was no planning model for small and medium size
organisations, just numerous approaches for big ones.  This led to writing a
book, THE STRATEGY LED BUSINESS: Step by step strategic planning for small
and medium size companies (McGraw-Hill, 1996) and facilitating several top
teams to an agreed future they created.  But a common problem emerged:  the
senior team was bonded to a future but nobody else owned it, because they
did not participate in framing that future.  Moreover, the senior team
failed to capture vital front line experience and creativity of all their
people.

This realisation led me to large group work including Open Space and
bringing the whole system into one room to look at the future and agree key
issues and priorities.  After experiencing this wider dynamic, Eddie Palmer
and I wrote THE LARGE GROUP FACILITATOR'S MANUAL (Gower, 2003).  In the
manual we created a Vision Search and Strategy Search 
for whole systems.    The following useful hybrid approach developed:

1. Open Space with the whole organisation to identify issues, opportunities,
threats, and priorities that should be considered by the top team when
framing a future direction, objectives and goals.

2. Using this framework for the future, the whole organisation goes back
into Open Space to agree strategies, detailed action plans, resource
allocation and priorities.

Plans also can be reviewed periodically in Open Space.

Kerry Napuk
Edinburgh
www.openfutures.com

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