I think Open Space transcends quality assurance. It's a tricky thing, but to my mind quality assurance is about control. How can you assure quality when whatever happens is the only thing that could have?<br><br>You might instead write in the proposal about both/and. In your project you might use quality assurance processes to do some things, but then use Open Space to ask the question, what else can we be? What are the areas of qualities that we don;t know about? How much better can we get?
<br><br>And the answers to these questions are "we don't know." Your proposal then becomes about why this is a GOOD thing.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Eva P Svensson</b> <<a href="mailto:eva@epshumaninvest.se">eva@epshumaninvest.se</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I am in the middle of writing a public procurement
and will of course suggest Open Space as one way of working. One of the
questions they are asking is about quality assurance – In my mind for
example the way we operate here on this list, on our OS on OS's is really
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">What do you think, how would you express a question
about how we work with quality assurance for open space??</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Looking forward to hear your thoughts!</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">All the best</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">:o)</span></font></p>
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