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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?’
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.
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‘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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