[OSList] McKinsey Quarterly, May 2012 - an opportunity for OST?

[Julie Smith]

Dear Artur ~

In your ponderings about online Open Space, take a look at sococo.com.  Watch the video.  Sococo provides a very interesting way of getting a visual feel for what is happening even if the interactions are limited to audio communication.  I assume that eventually they will also provide video, and then it will be even better.

I tried to work with the Sococo team to host an Open Space meeting, but they were too new and I guess what I was asking was too overwhelming in that moment.  But that was at least 6 months ago, so maybe things have moved along.  Anyway, take a look.  With a little tweaking might be a really good option for online OST.

Love,

Julie



On May 12, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Artur Silva wrote:

> Hi all:
> 
> Now on a completely different matter - or not…
> 
> There are a lot of changes happening in the last 20 years in the world - like peak oil and the need for the transition for a more sustainable and resilient community-centered way of life - changes in the way people worldwide think about politics and economy - the occupy movement and today’s demonstrations all over the world (http://map.squaresdatabase.org/) are cases that illustrate that..
> OST or OST-like ways of convening are being used almost everywhere or are part of the patterns in use (for instance in the transition movement).
> 
> But this change is also active in the corporate world where new paradigms and ways of thinking about leadership, innovation and even strategy are in good currency.
> 
> Al this came from reading the McKinsey Quarterly, of May 2012 (summary and a link for the complete PDF here: https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Strategy_in_Practice/The_social_side_of_strategy_2965) on “The social side of Strategy”, with a lot of examples of companies that used  “participatory methods of strategy development” or “social strategy setting” using tools like wikis, forums, e-mail distribution lists or internal collaborative platforms or tools.
> 
> Reading the full article one can find a lot of clues and expressions that are similar to threads that have been discussed in this list over the years. As always, there are good news and bad news.
> 
> The good news is that being McKinsey respected in the corporate world and being OST a king of gathering where a lot of the values preached on the report naturally happen, this report can be used as one way to approach corporate clients with OST as a value proposition, when the venues can be located in one place (or eventually two).
>  
> (A special note to the coincidence with the launching of the French e-book: in the full PDF version there is a sidebar signed by Olivier Sibony, director of McKinsey’s Paris office… - to the attention of Christine Koehler ;-)
>  
> The bad news is that, in the majority of the cases, we are talking about transnational organizations, which, in part because of the need to cut travel expenses, but also to enlarge the participation in time and space, use online platforms. Even if we have the experience of this list (and in the past of the wiki at http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi) I don’t think that the online OS platforms I have experienced are good enough for the job, and collectively we have not enough experience on facilitating web based OST-like events. Maybe we should think about that... 
> 
> Have a nice week end
> 
> Artur
> 
> 
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