Introducing OST for strategic planning - Question

[Christine Whitney Sanchez]

Susan, 
 
I have used OST for Strategic Planning a number of times when leaders
realize that intelligence/forecasting about the future must come from the
collective and that any future action will naturally come through those who
take responsibility for their passion. 
 
Have you checked out Glenda Eoyang's Adaptive Action Planning as an
alternative to traditional SP
http://www.hsdinstitute.org/e-clarity/asp_documents_0001/Documents_Publish/1
00.pdf?  Her comparison might be helpful when introducing OST.  
 
Best of luck,
 
Christine
 
 
Christine Whitney Sanchez
CWS - Collaborative Wisdom & Strategy
2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue
Phoenix, AZ  85048-8990
480.759.0262
www.christinewhitneysanchez.com <http://www.christinewhitneysanchez.com/>  
 
 

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Kerr
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:36 AM
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Subject: Introducing OST for strategic planning - Question


 Hi Everyone,
 
Does anyone have experience with using OST for strategic planning for an
organization? If so, how did you would you introduce it to the leaders of
the organization in order to use it for this? 
 
I'm not new to this list but still new to using OST. While I've experienced
it Harrison, Michael H, and others, I haven't experienced it within an
organization for problem solving. My role in my company is to manage
training for one small section of the company (700 employees out of 26,000)
and I have only used parts of OST or on a very small scale. 
 
Yesterday out of the blue, the VP of Org Dev called me to ask me if I
thought OST could be used at their upcoming strategic planning meeting where
20 - 30 strategic leaders will be meeting for 1 day I believe. He asked me
if I would be willing to meet with himself and one other leader responsible
to plan this meeting to explain what OST is and how it could be used for
this. He specifically asked for:
 
What OST is
How OST can be used
What could work for strategic planning
What might not work
 
The "wrench" he threw into it that I don't quite know what to do with is
that they are considering bringing in "experts" in social trends and
healthcare/business trends to present to this group of strategic planners
and allow them time for Q&A of these experts. Then there would be time for
priority setting/developing the strategic plan. He was thinking of OST for
the latter phase. 
 
I welcome any thoughts or coaching from this group! I followed some of the
recent conversations on "experts" in OST sessions and understand that
purpose of holding two day open space (I think I do, anyway) but am not sure
if it could be accomplished in one day and if this is a situation to use it
in or not. 
 
Thank you! I look forward to hearing from you. 
Peace,
Susan 



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