[Ailist] AI - an established business strategy

Fri Mar 9 10:03:41 MST 2007

Hi All,

Great thread..., however it is framed.  Reminds me, along with some other
folks that back in the 80 doing Search Conferencing or Future Search and
then in the 90s doing Open Space, we'd ask ourselves a similar question?
It seemed difficult to "sell" participatory, democratizing, expansive
methods of organizational development,  which  give renewed life, vitality,
purpose, desired outcomes to people and their enterprise.  Conversations
were around the notion of how do you "sell"  these types of change methods.
One response was you can't "sell" them, people "buy" them!   .....a question
of perceived value.

Like Roberta, for me the principles are key and when we get clear around
how they bring value to the organization and the players and how the
principles translate into behaviors, which are measurable, some lights begin
to turn on.  E.G.  What does "poetic principle" look like in our
organization?  How do we do that?  What does it mean for us and our
customers?

I also would add Appreciative Competencies:  Organizational competencies
that best support Destiny as ongoing continuous learning, with the ability
to adapt in spontaneous ways, change speedily on demand, and stay on the
edge of emergence.  Some are listed below.

Affirmative Competence
Recognition of past successes, achievements, valuing members strengths and
vitality
Expansive Competence
Willingness to stretch the boundaries, take on challenges for growth, expand
to new and different horizons, inspired members
Generative Competence
Meaning making and sense-making is built into performance; timely feedback
and progress reports to acknowledge members’ contributions
Collaborative Competence
High performing organizations allow for dialogue, encourage diversity and
multiple perspectives and all members’ participation in service of the goals

These also can be measured.  Is the organization ready to embrace AI and
what it promises to deliver?  Good starting point and very enticing for many
who may be unsure that AI is able to be quantified.  You can do the before
and after.

So the need for measurement in our organizational contexts will remain with
us and we can do that too!  Who's interested in working on an AI
Assessment/Readiness Tool?  That's one of the things I am working on right
now.

Kindest regards,

Robyn Stratton-Berkessel
Creator, Positive Matrix, www.positivematrix.com
Founder, L.I.T. Global www.litglobal.com 
+1 732 291 0462
+1 917 816 5597 (mobile)
Skype: robynsb

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[mailto:ailist-bounces at lists.business.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Cheri Torres
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To: Robpeirick at cs.com
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Subject: RE: [Ailist] AI - an established business strategy

Roberta,

Absolutely.  Do you have examples of organizations where the principles are
flourishing?  What supported the culture shift?  What life-generating
capacity was important for these organizations to shift and sustain?

I'm very interested in knowing what org. have done this and sustained it
over time.

Cheri

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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:49 AM
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Subject: RE: [Ailist] AI - an established business strategy

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,
>
>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.
>
>What do others think?
>
>Cheri
>
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>From: ailist-bounces at lists.business.utah.edu
>[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
>
>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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