[Ailist] AI - an established business strategy

[Robpeirick at cs.com]

Mukul and Cheri, 

Should we being looking for the application of the principles of Appreciative Inquiry in an organization. How have organizations and social systems lived into the principles of social constructionism, Poetic, anticipatory,Positive, Simultaneity, Wholeness and  free choice. Mukul your question takes me back to the question of whether Ai is a methodology(tool, framework, etc) or a philosphy? What is the tipping point for an AI organization based on these principles and where is the tipping point(leadership, wholesystem)?    
Many of the tools you mentioned such as the balance scorecard can be designed in an appreciative way or can be part of the design or destiny phase in an AI process. 
We have so much to learn and understand if live into our "and" statements within the AI community.

Thanks for your questions and responses.

Roberta Peirick 
Dialogs for Business 
An Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, LLC 
"Cheri Torres" <cheri at mobileteamchallenge.com> wrote:

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>Mukul,
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>My suspicion is that to truly embrace AI requires an individual and an
>organization culture to change their way of being and doing. This is no easy
>task...and it is brand new ground.  It requires a whole new paradigm for
>understanding the world: social constructionism.  This is a big deal for the
>collective membership of an organization--I think it calls for continuous
>awareness, openness to learning, willingness to accept agency and
>responsibility, and then collaboration to co-create.  
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>What do others think?
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>Cheri  
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>[mailto:ailist-bounces at lists.business.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Mukul Kumar
>Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:20 PM
>To: ailist at lists.business.utah.edu
>Subject: [Ailist] AI - an established business strategy
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>Hi everyone:
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>Looking at the past e-mail postings in the AIlistserve and my experiences
>for pursuing AI in my organization, I am just wondering why AI has not been
>established as an acceptable business strategy or tool so far.  Though it
>has been developed in early 80's, it is based on positive environment and
>consensus of all the participants (which is a perfect approach (win-win
>approach in my opinion) in the current dynamic environment, even then the
>people doubt its effectiveness and capability.  That's why it is not
>popular.  Most of the people are not aware of AI and do not wish to invest
>the resources for its trial.  Then we look around for the various ways if we
>could get their acceptance.    
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>There are many other tools such as Kaplan's Balance Score Card, Porter's
>Value Chain model, which are so popular and people accept them so easily
>with no arguments or doubts.  
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>Would any one like to elaborate why AI is not gaining the acceptance?  Even
>I too, foresee huge potential in AI approach and look forward to
>study/involve more actively around this approach.  I am curious to know
>whether am I missing any perspective in demonstrating its effectiveness.
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>Would appreciate your insights?   
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>Mukul
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