An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making

This Business901 Podcast featured Seung Chan Lim, nicknamed Slim. We discussed his journey and finally his project, Realizing Empathy. Through this project Slim hopes to share ideas, tools, and other ways to facilitate a meaningful, sustainable, and constructive conversations between and among diverse perspectives whether that’s between people or between people and materials or between Read More …

Appreciative Inquiry Introduction

This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative with Sara Orem, co-author of Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change (Jossey-Bass Business & Management). Sara L.Orem, Ph.D. has twenty years of management experience and fifteen years management consulting in and to major financial services companies in the U. S., Read More …

Is Appreciative Inquiry the next step for Continuous Improvement?

Ankit Patel, principal partner with The Lean Way Consulting firm while doing some work with the Cleveland Clinic, discovered Appreciative Inquiry and saw an opportunity to blend it with his work in Continuous Improvement. I found the work fascinating and this is the subject of this Business901 podcast. An excerpt of the podcast can be Read More …

Appreciative Inquiry and Company Change

What is Appreciative Inquiry is a hi-def training video that includes the 5 principles, 4-D Cycle, positive core, Summit Process, and story of how Appreciative inquiry began. It’s presented by Jackie Kelm at www.AppreciativeEngagement.com. The methodologies of Lean, Service Design and Design Thinking co-exist with appreciative inquiry very well. Especially, when we are looking at Read More …

Appreciative Inquiry: Conversation w David Cooperrider

Distinguished Visiting Professor David Cooperrider talks about Appreciative Inquiry and the power of strength-based leadership. The Appreciative Inquiry (AI) movement offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future, experience with the whole system, and activities that signal "something different is happening this time." That difference systematically taps the Read More …

Connecting Continuous Improvement and Appreciative Inquiry

My recent foray into Appreciative Inquiry was spawned by Ankit Patel, principal partner with The Lean Way Consulting firm. While doing some work with the Cleveland Clinic, he discovered Appreciative Inquiry and saw an opportunity to blend it with his work in Continuous Improvement. I found the work fascinating and this is the subject of Read More …