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Most all Agile adoptions do not (repeat) do not begin in Open Space.
Curious, isn't it? I mean, why not? <br>
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Something about having to explain about engagement, invitation,
opt-in participation, and self-organization to executives. <br>
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When selling, simple is better. The less said- the better. Sell them
what they are buying! And be quiet about everything else. <br>
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Open Space is super-efficient. It encourages self-organization. At
scale. <br>
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This efficiency reduces the number of Agile coaching & Agile
consulting days that can effectively be sold. <br>
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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. <br>
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Once this happens, business-as-usual (for the consultant) usually
includes vacating the premises. <br>
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OST optimizes on transformations, not transactions. <br>
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Perhaps OST is a little too efficient? Kind of like the original
design for the light bulb?<br>
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<h3 class="entry-header"><a
href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/10/the-light-bulb-cartel-and-planned-obsolescence.html"
style="color: #000000; text-decoration:none">'The Light Bulb
Cartel and Planned Obsolescence'</a></h3>
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<p>Busy day today -- a couple of quick ones for now. This is Tim
Taylor:</p>
<blockquote><a
href="http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-light-bulb-cartel-and-planned.html">
The Light Bulb Cartel and Planned Obsolescence</a>: The old
1951 movie "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044876/">The
Man in the White Suit,"</a> 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?”</blockquote>
<blockquote>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 "<a
href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy">The
Great Lightbulb Conspiracy: The Phoebus cartel engineered a
shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth to planned
obsolescence."</a> ...</blockquote>
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