<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Daniel,<br><br></div>Giant kudos! Befitting of Fathers' Day! You have given all your passion, vision and might to this... and now it is birthing strong as you imagined it would!<br><br></div>
Suzanne<br><br>P.S. Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful Open Space (and Agilist) dads out there!!!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Daniel Mezick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@newtechusa.net" target="_blank">dan@newtechusa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Greetings All, <br>
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This is a quick note to tell you that Open Space is showing up in
the business news !! In a big way!<br>
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<br>
CIO Magazine has awarded Mark Katz of ASCAP with the CIO-100 award.
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<br>
This award honors the top 100 Chief Information Officers and the
organizations they serve.<br>
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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. <br>
<br>
Open Agile Adoption begins and ends in Open Space:
<a href="http://www.OpenAgileAdoption.com" target="_blank">http://www.OpenAgileAdoption.com</a><br>
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Here's a previous OSLIST post about that: <br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/2013-September/030780.html" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/2013-September/030780.html</a></p>
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... to really ensure that agile was adopted at ASCAP, <big><b>open
space meetings were held</b></big> where business users and
technology staff participated. Attendance was excellent."
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<p class="MsoNormal">"...<big><b>Open space meetings represent a
repeatable technique</b></big> 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."<br>
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Mark Katz used the
Open Agile Adoption method with Open Space to help implement Agile
in his organization. He then turned his passionate, responsible, <i>self-organizing</i>
Agile teams loose on a big, huge, mission-critical, do-or-die
development project. <br>
<br>
And it worked. His teams were able to complete this big, huge &
"do or die" project very successfully! <br>
<br>
In so doing, Mark and his teams helped move the ASCAP organization
into the next phase of it's 100-year-plus existence. <br>
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And as a result ASCAP and Mark Katz are receipients of the CIO
MAGAZINE's 2014 CIO-100 award.<br>
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It's all described here:<br>
<a href="http://www.ascap.com/press/2014/0610-ascap-to-receive-cio-100-award.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.ascap.com/press/2014/0610-ascap-to-receive-cio-100-award.aspx</a><br>
"...Executives from the winning companies will be recognized at the <a href="http://www.cio100.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=85676&" target="_blank"><strong>CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony</strong></a>,
to be held on the evening of Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 at the
Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California."<br>
<br>
This is a big deal!! ASCAP is the 1st organization in the world to
use the Open Agile Adoption (with Open Space) method. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
And Open Space has everything to do with that!<br>
<br>
Note: Mark Katz may be attending the [agileCULTUREcon] conference
event coming up June 26+27 in Boston, to tell his story. <br>
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Conference Event Link:<br>
<a href="http://www.agileCULTUREcon.com" target="_blank">http://www.agileCULTUREcon.com</a><br>
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About Mark Katz:<br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/markskatz" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/markskatz</a><br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
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<div>-- <br>
<p>Daniel Mezick, President</p>
<p>New Technology Solutions Inc.</p>
<p><a href="tel:%28203%29%20915%207248" value="+12039157248" target="_blank">(203) 915 7248</a> (cell)</p>
<p><span><a href="http://newtechusa.net/dan-mezick/" target="_blank">Bio</a></span><span>. <a href="http://newtechusa.net/blog/" target="_blank"><span>Blog</span></a>. <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/danmezick/" target="_blank"><span>Twitter</span></a>.<span> </span></span></p>
<p><span>Examine my new book:<span> </span><a href="http://newtechusa.net/about/the-culture-game-book/" target="_blank"><span>The Culture Game </span></a></span><span>: Tools for the Agile Manager</span><span>.</span></p>
<p>Explore Agile Team <a href="http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-training/" target="_blank"><span>Training</span></a> and <a href="http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-coaching/" target="_blank"><span>Coaching.</span></a></p>
<p>Explore the <a href="http://newtechusa.net//user-groups/ma/" target="_blank"><span>Agile
Boston </span></a>Community.<span> </span></p>
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