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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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<sup>st</sup> 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.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Harrison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Winter Address<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Summer Address<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>189 Beaucauire Ave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Camden, ME 04843<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>207 763-3261<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Websites<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>www.openspaceworld.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>www.ho-image.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>