[OSList] OS and Planning

[Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList]

Thank you!!!

Great examples....

context context context....

all best wishes,

Rosa

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On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Harrison Owen via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Eina wrote: thanks Harrison, could you give (or others) an example for
> this sort of Planning in OS?” I suggested she put the question online, but
> she seems to be having some difficulty. So I do it myself…
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> I can think of many examples, but two have some write up – The first one
> is Rockport Shoes where the whole corporation was involved in a 2 day open
> space on the corporate future. The New York Times did a nice full page
> story which you can reach in their archives. What  caught my attention was
> not the plan produced but the positive actions that took place before the 1
> st day of Open Space had concluded. In a word the merger of
> planning/doing. Specifically, one group created a whole new product with
> manufacturing space reserved, finance available, marketing plan in place –
> with an estimated ROI of $25,000,000. At the same time another group did a
> fix to the inventory system with a net saving of $4,000,000. In short
> $29,000,000 added to the bottom line – which represented a 10% increase.
> Not bad for the first day! And the significant thing for me was that there
> wasn’t a hair’s breadth between planning and doing. Talk about reducing
> “time to market.”
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> The second example was the AT&T Olympic pavilion. The final product was
> the building design – which was complete in two days. No planning for the
> Design. You can find descriptions of this in my book “Wave Rider” – and a
> shorter whirl in my TEDX talk “Dancing with Shiva” which you can find on
> YouTube.
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