[Ailist] Ailist] Re: Six Sigma

[sherene zolno]

I agree with what Jane has written here.

It seems especially true when you realize that almost all of the process
aspects of AI were/are 'borrowed' from other intervention designs, others'
OD consulting and change work.For example:

AI Summit is a Future Search modified.

SWAT become SAOR with just a new emphasis.

Etc etc etc. 

Best wishes,
Sherene


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On 10/28/07 9:45 AM, "Jane Magruder Watkins"
<jane at appreciativeinquiryunlimited.com> wrote:

> I'm reading your dialogue while teaching an NTL Workshop on AI Foundations
> and just had a discussion with a participant about SWAT. My take is still
> that AI IS NOT A PROCESS! AI has a couple of "application models/frameworks"
> that we use to teach it and that we can also use with clients who need to
> see structure. In fact, anything that we do from T-groups to SWAT, to Org
> Design, to Strategic Planning, to teambuilding, to diversity work, to
> conflict resolution (you get the idea!) can be done from a context of
> understanding the power of dialogue (social construction) and the
> realization that everything we see, do and say comes from a context that,
> for us individually, is the way we see and understand the world in that
> moment.