[OSList] ASCAP uses Open Space and wins the 2014 CIO-100 award

[Suzanne Daigle]

Daniel,

Giant kudos!  Befitting of Fathers' Day!  You have given all your passion,
vision and might to this... and now it is birthing strong as you imagined
it would!

Suzanne

P.S. Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful Open Space (and Agilist) dads
out there!!!


On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net> wrote:

>  Greetings All,
>
> This is a quick note to tell you that Open Space is showing up in the
> business news !! In a big way!
>
>
> CIO Magazine has awarded Mark Katz of ASCAP with the CIO-100 award.
>
> This award honors the top 100 Chief Information Officers and the
> organizations they serve.
>
> ASCAP is over 100 years old and has a definite culture. To shift that
> culture, Mark Katz of ASCAP implemented of Open Agile Adoption, a method
> for implementing Agile which encourages dialogue and engagement.
>
> Open Agile Adoption begins and ends in Open Space:
> http://www.OpenAgileAdoption.com
>
> Here's a previous OSLIST post about that:
>
>
> http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/2013-September/030780.html
>
> " ... to really ensure that agile was adopted at ASCAP, *open space
> meetings were held* where business users and technology staff
> participated. Attendance was excellent."
>
> "...*Open space meetings represent a repeatable technique* for getting a
> rapid and lasting agile adoption. It's based on the hypothesis that /human
> engagement/ is what actually powers genuine and lasting agile adoptions."
>
>
>
>
>
>  Mark Katz used the Open Agile Adoption method with Open Space to help
> implement Agile in his organization. He then turned his passionate,
> responsible, *self-organizing* Agile teams loose on a big, huge,
> mission-critical, do-or-die development project.
>
> And it worked. His teams were able to complete this big, huge & "do or
> die" project very successfully!
>
> In so doing, Mark and his teams helped move the ASCAP organization into
> the next phase of it's 100-year-plus existence.
>
> And as a result ASCAP and Mark Katz are receipients of the CIO MAGAZINE's
> 2014 CIO-100 award.
>
>
> It's all described here:
> http://www.ascap.com/press/2014/0610-ascap-to-receive-cio-100-award.aspx
> "...Executives from the winning companies will be recognized at the *CIO
> 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony*
> <http://www.cio100.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=85676&>, to be held on the
> evening of Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 at the Terranea Resort in Rancho
> Palos Verdes, California."
>
> This is a big deal!! ASCAP is the 1st organization in the world to use the
> Open Agile Adoption (with Open Space) method.
>
> And now, here they are, with great results, and recognized as one of the
> most effective IT organizations in the world, by none other than CIO
> MAGAZINE.
>
> And Open Space has everything to do with that!
>
> Note: Mark Katz may be attending the [agileCULTUREcon] conference event
> coming up June 26+27 in Boston, to tell his story.
>
> Conference Event Link:
> http://www.agileCULTUREcon.com
>
> About Mark Katz:
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/markskatz
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Daniel Mezick, President
>
> New Technology Solutions Inc.
>
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>
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>
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> Manager.
>
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Suzanne Daigle
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