<p>Wonderful Dicky.</p>
<p>Your sharing would benefit great many around the world!</p>
<p>Ubiquitous waveriding powered by ost ;-))</p>
<p>spark</p>
<p>Director<br>
Open Space Institute of Korea<br>
<a href="http://openspace.kr">http://openspace.kr</a><br>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">2011. 4. 10. 오후 8:20에 "Methorst, Dicky" <<a href="mailto:dicky.methorst@minbuza.nl">dicky.methorst@minbuza.nl</a>>님이 작성:<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span>hi Suzanne and Nancy,</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span>Thanks for your thoughts and contributions. I would
like to share my experience with follow up of an Open Space event within my
organisation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands. As I am within
the organisation I had a chance to follow through what happened after the Open
Space with all the harvest. After two months we decided to go through the
harvest again and ask the convenors of the sessions what had happened.
Curiously enough they had forgotten what was written in the reports. When they
reread the reports, however, they found that a lot of the suggestions had found
their way somehow into the organisation. They had become an integral part of the
work, had been executed or had been integrated into policies. Some issues
did not need explicit follow up: the participants had enjoyed the discussions,
had learned a lot or gotten other perspectives. On other issues no follow up
action had been taken: these appeared to be the suggestions that on second
thought were regarded as not feasible or not important enough. So without
any explicit and conscious follow up action or controlmechanism by
management.the things that needed to be handled got adequate attention. There
was one exception: suggestions given bij outsiders (ie external
experts/stakeholders) who wanted the Ministry to take certain actions) had not
been taken on board (yet). It is possible that this will still be done, as the
time between the Open Space and the questions asked about follow up was too
short. But these things were more likely to be forgotten. By the way, the main
purpose was not "knowledge sharing" but finding opportunities to realize our
ambitions for reaching the Millenium Development Goals within a new challenging
political policy environment.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span>I wonder whether this outcome is another proof of the
power of selforganisation. Or does it mean that people had just brought the
things they wanted to do anyway and it would have happened even
without Open Space? Or may be it would have happened anyway but less
quickly and less efficient/effective. </span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span>Greetings from a sunny Netherlands!</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span>Dicky</span></font></div><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetechorg" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetechorg</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Suzanne
Daigle<br><b>Sent:</b> zaterdag 9 april 2011 17:53<br><b>To:</b> 'Nancy White';
<a href="mailto:oslist@openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@openspacetech.org</a><p><font color="#500050"><br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Knowledge sharing open space?</font></p></font><br></div><p><font color="#500050">Nancy,<br>
<br> <br><br>Makes a lot of sense to me! Would love to know more about what you mean by less “line of...</font></p></div>
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