We’re excited to announce that we’ll be presenting our workshop on “iPads & Organizations: Using Design Methods as OD Interventions†at next week’s Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network Meeting. We piloted this workshop in September for our colleagues at the Seattle ISPI Chapter, and presented it to a standing-room only audience at the national OD Network Conference 2010 in New Orleans last month. We’ve tweaked […]
Tonya Peck and I launched Locomotive Partners in the summer of 2009 to pursue organizational development (OD) work with clients, for the public, and the community of OD practitioners in the Pacific Northwest. One year later and that work continues to pick up steam (most recently with our move into a wonderfully open shared work-space at the Seattle architecture firm Bumgardner). We’re happy to report […]
We’ve put a lot of effort into developing our workshop “iPads & Organizations: Design Methods as OD Interventions” which we’re piloting at Seattle’s ISPI September meeting and then launching at ODN’s Conference 2010 in New Orleans. We’ll update this blog-post over time with the books, videos, blogs, articles, and other resources that have influenced our work. Resources available so far include: WORK-in-PROGRESS: MICRODESIGN (pdf) MACRO-DESIGN […]
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be previewing our workshop on “iPads & Org Structures” at this week’s Seattle ISPI Chapter Meeting. The working title has evolved into “iPads & Org Structures: Using Design Methods as OD Interventions”.  Be sure to RSVP to ISPI if you wish to attend (details below): Topic: iPads & Org Structures: Using Design Methods as OD Interventions - What do iPads & effective […]
Tonya Peck and I have now completed the micro-design for our presentation at next month’s #ODNET10 conference in New Orleans. Given the nature of the material we’ve taken the approach of creating an experience instead of giving a typical ‘presentation’. You can get a sense of it from the screen-shot above. The working title has also evolved to be “iPads and Organizations: Using Design Methods as […]
Yesterday afternoon Tonya Peck and I sketched out the macro-design for our presentation on Beautiful Organizations that we’re preparing for next month’s #ODNET10 conference in New Orleans (register here). The brief for the talk is below: What do iPads & effective organizations have in common? Both are the result of the intentional creation of an authentic emotive experience. Peter Block, in his ODNet09 keynote address, […]