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Caterfly's Open Smart Transformation model for collaborative organisational change is a derivative of Prime-OS and OpenSpace Agility by Daniel Mezick. Caterfly applies the same principles and practices for implementing Agile at scale in organisations, to any form of organisational systems adoption or transformation (e.g. lean, teal, creative economy, sociocracy, holacracy, responsive etc). Anyone exploring any form of organisational transformation should find it useful follow recent developments in the agile adoption world...
Book review of Open Space Agilitiy Handbook: This is a brilliant how-to book. It addresses the problem of resistance and poor engagement in agile adoptions and organisational change. Why is it, for instance, that the majority of agile adoptions, despite huge investments, fail? The approach presented resolves root causes and offers a completely fresh and novel way of implementing agile and organisational transformation...
Daniel Mezick filmed an interview he did with a Senior Director of Product Development after their IT department had undergone a complete Open Agile Adoption. The linked page contains a series of video testimonials of Open Agile Adoptions in the form of client interviews:
Open Space Technology, commonly Open Space, is a social technology, a tool for helping people to rally around a shared challenge, with minimum obstacles and maximum efficiency. It is used to organise meetings, gatherings, conferences, problem solving and summits in which everyone has the opportunity to participate on their own terms.
‘Kai’-‘zen’ literally means ‘good change’, or change for the better, done by everybody, everyday, everywhere. This kaizen mind-set creates an organisational platform or culture with is fed by one question asked by everyone at least once a day: ‘What is one small step you can do to improve the product or process you work on?’
Our recommendation is for an ongoing platform or culture of Kaizen continuous improvement, interspersed once, twice a year with a mega-burst of radical innovation activity through Open Space Innovation events...
A good part of our approach in Caterfly was initially inspired by Open Agile Adoption (OAA) developed by Daniel Mezick. Open Agile Adoption itself applies the work of Harrison Owen in Open Space Technology. system, and a derivative of Prime OS. The Prime OS blueprint, or 'source code', is detailed here.
OPEN SMART TRANSFORMATION (OST) MODEL Version 1.0 Copyright (C) Martin Grimshaw, Francois Knuchel & Daniel Mezick (author of Prime/OS™) 2014-15 Shared under a ‘Free Culture’ ‘Attribution-Share Alike’ Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : You may use this work as you like, including creating derivatives and commercial use, but you MUST provide proper attribution and share your work [...]
Research and resources: Some of the essential work that underpins our own, including The failure of change management programmes, Open Space references, and approaches to Smarter Working such as Lean, Agile and Sociocracy, and the Open Smart Transformation model...
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Caterfly uses Open Smart Transformation to help organisations implement smarter ways of working. What do we mean by Smart?
‘Kai’-‘zen’ literally means ‘good change’, or change for the better, done by everybody, everyday, everywhere. This kaizen mind-set creates an organisational platform or culture with is fed by one question asked by everyone at least once a day: ‘What is one small step you can do to improve the product or process you work on?’
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Kaizen: 'A way of involving the whole workforce in continuous improvement, for a highly motivated workplace, delivering high quality for clients, and celebrating together'.
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