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

Sat Jun 14 10:44:17 PDT 2014

Daniel!

Congratulations!!! This is a big deal, for the approach you have been
promoting, of using Open Space as a way to encourage and support an
informed, choice-full and participatory Agile adoption…

thanks for all the links!
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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
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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