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

[Daniel Mezick]

On 6/14/14 9:35 AM, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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> Suzanne Daigle
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Daniel Mezick, President

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<http://newtechusa.net/blog/>. Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/danmezick/>.

Examine my new book:The Culture Game 
<http://newtechusa.net/about/the-culture-game-book/>: Tools for the 
Agile Manager.

Explore Agile Team Training 
<http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-training/> and Coaching. 
<http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-coaching/>

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