[Ailist] Organization wide AI summit question

[Neil D. Samuels]

Hi Susan,
The Commons probably has a few examples of this. Yes, it is a very effective
way to get all the voices in the room without having all the bodies. It is
not clear how many people you are talking about (gargantuan?) but that
becomes a logistics issues to me, not a real design issue. When we did the
Heathside work (see Commons) we had 270 interviewers do 3-5 interviews each
before the summit and used only that data. That is we did not do any live
interviews in the room. I prefer having the 1-1 in the room as well
though--something about the connections and energy at the start of a Summit.

The cross-pollination still occurs in phase two of discovery when groups of
8 share the results of their interviews (assuming attendees are sitting a
maximum-mix tables).
I think the AI Summit book covers this issue as well in terms of creating
"interview summary sheets". 

Happy to talk more as I feel my response did not do justice to your
excellent question.

Neil


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Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:35 AM
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Subject: [Ailist] Organization wide AI summit question

I have a question; we are planning an AI summit later this year, and had the
idea of having people who would actually attend the summit facilitate a
"mini" AI session in their department, and bring data from interviews to the
summit, with the idea that everyone's voice is heard.  Has anyone ever done
something like this? I'm open to thoughts/ideas regarding gargantuan data
collection, opening of the summit itself--use the same set of questions for
opening interviews?  If the summit participants bring collected data from
their department, the benefit will be themes specific to departments, but
I'm afraid we'll lose the benefit of "cross-pollination" and sharing of
ideas that sparks creativity. Thoughts, anyone? 

Thank you! 
Susan Duff
Organization Development Consultant
SSM Health Care - St. Louis Network



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