[OSList] Open Space- A little too open for "Agile enablement" firms?

[Daniel Mezick via OSList]

Most all Agile adoptions do not (repeat) do not begin in Open Space. 
Curious, isn't it? I mean, why not?

Something about having to explain about engagement, invitation, opt-in 
participation, and self-organization to executives.

When selling, simple is better. The less said- the better. Sell them 
what they are buying! And be quiet about everything else.

Open Space is super-efficient. It encourages self-organization. At scale.

This efficiency reduces the number of Agile coaching & Agile consulting 
days that can effectively be sold.



When Agile adoptions start in Open Space and then periodic OST events 
are scheduled periodically, something curious happens: genuine agility 
sprouts. Authentic self-organization and self-management ensues, little 
by little... more and more.

Once this happens, business-as-usual (for the consultant) usually 
includes vacating the premises.

OST optimizes on transformations, not transactions.

Perhaps OST is a little too efficient? Kind of like the original design 
for the light bulb?


      'The Light Bulb Cartel and Planned Obsolescence'
      <http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/10/the-light-bulb-cartel-and-planned-obsolescence.html>

Busy day today -- a couple of quick ones for now. This is Tim Taylor:

    The Light Bulb Cartel and Planned Obsolescence
    <http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-light-bulb-cartel-and-planned.html>:
    The old 1951 movie "The Man in the White Suit,"
    <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044876/> starring Alec Guinness, is
    both an entertaining adventure/comedy and a meditation on technology
    and planned obsolescence. The Alec Guinness character invents a
    wonderful new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out.
    He sees a future where ordinary people will save money on clothes
    and cleaning expenses. People marvel at the invention at first, but
    soon everyone is against him: the textile and clothing companies
    fear his cloth will put them out of business, the workers in those
    companies fear losing their jobs, and those who do the washing fear
    losing work, too. Near the end of the movie, one character notes
    wryly that markets won't function if the products work too well. He
    says: “What do you think happened to all the other things? The razor
    blade that doesn’t get blunt? The car that runs on water with a
    pinch of something else?”

    It's harder to come up with clear-cut real-world example of where
    companies sought to reduce the quality of a product in order to
    boost sales. But in the October 2014 issue of IEEE Spectrum, Markus
    Krajewski tells the story of "The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy: The
    Phoebus cartel engineered a shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth
    to planned obsolescence."
    <http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy>
    ...


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