<div dir="ltr">a few thoughts, christine...<div><br></div><div>1. i'd not be as interested in prioritizing everything as in sorting and grouping things that are similar or overlapping. voting is a quick way to come up with a small number of attractors around which you can associate all the other issues. </div><div><br></div><div>2. it may or may not be possible or desirable to have a senior and/or select group sort everything into clusters of issues and then simply open some more space around each one of those. </div><div><br></div><div>3. i would not do action planning with each group. I would give the proceedings from the first group to everyone. then i would give the proceedings from round two to everyone again. by the time you get the output from round three, i think you will see significant integration happening. it might be possible to sort/group just those issues from the last round, but if not, the others should mostly fit in somewhere. if something from round one disappears by round 3, that probably means something.</div><div><br></div><div>4. alternatively, it may be that there is an org structure that for now is in place and going to stay in place. presumably, since they're staggering the open space work, they're trying to keep the wheels turning while reinventing themselves. so another way to go is to take all of the proceedings, distributed to all after each round, and do a new set of open space meetings, where each operating group surveys everything in the book(s) and claims what it is that they can own and do within their immediate area and also what they could do with some help. everything they can do within their area can start immediately. all the stuff that wants to cross silos can be the subject of a new round of open space meetings. duration of all os meetings proposed here is to be set as appropriate for that particular issue/area/etc. some of these silo-crossing issues will naturally cluster, so you'll still end up with clusters of things to work on.<br></div><div><br></div><div>5. it's possible that one piece of work will be to end existing silos and create new groupings. maybe this can be done soon/quickly, maybe even in advance of the first round of os meetings... maybe leaders already know they want to reorg at the highest level around customer segments rather than production systems, for instance. anytihng that is known/desired/planned already should be made explicit before the opens pace, of course, as givens. BUT... if some sort of post-existing-silos organization is desired/expected but not yet known, they will learn a lot about what shape(s) would be most helpful if they do #4 and study the cross-over requests for help. those represent the new organization trying to be born. if they move quickly around those things, they'll just want to make sure that the old groups don't lose traction on the things they said they could own as existing groups.</div><div><br></div><div>6. some of this work may fit very well into a framework called enterprise scrum, which i see as a slightly structured version of ongoing open space. i have a colleague from france who's now not so far from you, living in heidelberg. i'd be glad to connect you if he'd be a help on the ground there. or i'd be glad to discuss this with you, as an extension of the os+agile conversations you and i have had over time. </div><div><br></div><div>7. don't forget the University of Kentucky rules for ongoing open space. They might be helpful here. There on my site or google will find you multiple sources, i think. Or I can get them for you.</div><div><br></div><div>8. when holding followup meetings, logistically 100 can be a lot easier than 300... which is to say that if they're going off-site for these meetings, but they have an onsite space that will hold 100, then there's nothing wrong with convening follow-on meetings where only the first 100 responders get the seats in the circle... and if many more want to attend a given session, you'll already have experience of running three in series on the same theme. </div><div><br></div><div>well, that's maybe more than a few thoughts... and i think i've actually forgotten to mention something(s)... i'll stay tuned...</div><div><br></div><div>michael</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>p.s. 9. and don't forget to keep having fun. fact is nobody knows what the best way to go is, except one step at a time. it sounds like they're already in open space! so you just help them stay there... do these three and see what happens. what a great situation! </div><div><br></div><div>p.p.s 10. there's no reason the notes from each day can't be posted somewhere the very next day! don't let a lot of processing get in the way... conveners are responsible for typing and posting their notes right away. no filtering. and if they're all in one location, think about printing them out and posting on the walls in a long hallway... keep the news in front of everyone and it'll be one long meeting, not three!</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div> <br>--<br><br>Michael Herman<br>Michael Herman Associates</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">312-280-7838 (mobile)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://MichaelHerman.com" target="_blank">http://MichaelHerman.com</a><br><a href="http://OpenSpaceWorld.org" target="_blank">http://OpenSpaceWorld.org</a></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Scott Gassman via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Christine,<div><br></div><div>You have a wonderful opportunity to continue helping stretch this company.</div><div>If in your shoes, I would share findings/outputs/reports with all attendees </div><div>from the three days.</div><div>Ask them to read them, and identify what's most important and gripping for </div><div>the organization to distill and carry forward as most significant change initiatives.</div><div><br></div><div>I would invite all who want to and can attend to a follow-up 3.5 hour convergence session.</div><div>If I could I would ask for most important themes/topics to be discussed and volunteer </div><div>leaders to step-up and move the topics forward. I would next invite the leaders, topic leaders.</div><div>and scribes to process what's resulted and close in on new strategy. I would also have </div><div>Subject Matter Experts on hand to respond to inquiries. This is the beginning of what they </div><div>want to build.</div><div><br></div><div>This likely will require more time, a model process leader and business owner as a start. </div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to hear future stories.</div><div><br></div><div>Scott Gassman</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:21 PM, christine koehler via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.<wbr>org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div>Dear friends and colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>May I ask for advice, ideas and/or stories ?</div><div><br></div><div>I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees) 3 one and a half days of OS that will host around 300 participants each.</div><div>The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with different participants. The whole company has been invited and almost everyone is coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.</div><div>The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company. They are on a market that is completely changing those days and they have a very ambitious goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take place, there will be 200 people more in the company, and they are invited) and diversification. They have begun looking for new markets and hope to continue that with the OS. So their expectations are huge : new organizational models for a new company, new projects, new synergies, hopefully a new management model. </div><div><br></div><div>The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the projects that come out of the OS as they expect many projects and probably won't be able to fund all of them.</div><div>They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment they want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's not easy to change the model. But I am confident that with a few conversations they can consider other options.</div><div><br></div><div>I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.</div><div>How would you design it ? and who would you invite ? </div><div>I would love to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion</div><span class="m_-3334914333669622239HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Christine </div>
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