Aim and Stats
Now in our eleventh year of operation, the aim of the "OD" sessions is to continue to foster an appreciation of InThinking within an emerging network that is developing inside Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and beyond. Dates for future "OD" sessions along with additional "thinking" opportunities for 2010 can be found in this announcement.
OD Stats
For an update on OD statistics, this month's invitation is going out to 5000+ partners in the U.S., as well as fellow inthinking partners in Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Dubai, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the U.K. Taken together, these individuals represent over 600 organizations in this list of nations, from elementary schools and senior high schools to colleges and universities, from one-person consulting firms to United Technologies, GM, IBM, General Electric, NASA, Philips Electronics, and The Boeing Company. Among this list of invitees, participation in June's OD conference calls with Barnet Bain included 45 partners from across the US and UK, including (in all, 350+ have joined us in 2010, with 450 partners in 2009, 394 in 2008, 342 in 2007, 444 in 2006, and 402 2005...ah, yes, variation exists).
And, yes, Grace, the diffusion process of connecting thought leaders continuuues... |
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With World Cup fever behind us until 2014 and sun glasses, sun block, and iced tea (sweet or not) in great demand (link here for more from NPR about tea pioneer Sir Thomas Liption and his efforts to bring uniformity to teas), it's time to come together in the spirit of improving our abilities to think together, learn together, and work together, in our respective organizations...as a starting point. Towards this end, this month we feature Armin Pajand as our Thought Leader, in sessions set for Monday, July 26th and Tusday, July 27th. Details follows below.
Link here for the PARTICIPANT SURVEY for this month's OD and to receive the conference call information once you complete the survey. Note that the new participant survey includes a consent to be recorded, such that the audiofiles for these calls can be legally distributed afterwards.
Cheers...
Bill Bellows
Associate Fellow and Lead
InThinking Network
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Canoga Park, California
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Welcome First Timers
Your names have been added to this announcement list by virtue of your attendance in our series of Thinking Roadmap seminars, workshops, and overviews within Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, or attendance at the annual In2:InThinking Network Forum, through a personal request, from you or a friend. Welcome to our thinking networks.
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Thought Leader - Armin Pajand
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's InThinking Network welcomes Armin Pajand (pictured below) to lead our seventh Ongoing Discussion of 2010 on July 26th and 27th (and our 127th session since we began in 2000).
Please join us for a conversation with Armin, who has been associated with our InThinking Network efforts for the past 4 years, joining us through a connection to Tracy Huston, a former Ongoing Discussion Thought Leader. He is the Strategy & Learning Architect at Haig Barrett, a management consulting practice in Los Angeles.
Armin's topic for the July Ongoing Discussion builds on the success of an interactive presentation given at the Association for Strategy Planning's National Conference for Strategic Planning on February 24th, 2010 in Pasadena, California. The topic of the conference was "Positioning for the Long-Term Success in A Short Term World." ASP's annual conference is an important forum for professional discussion and exchange of information and experiences among strategic planning practitioners.
Armin will share with PWR's InThinking Network an aspect of his conference presentation. The title of his Thought Piece is "Transforming Change Management: Why the Field of 'Organizational Change' Needs to Evolve and Transform Itself'. Here is the link to a portion of the ASP National Conference Presentation which constitutes Armin's Thought Piece.
Armin will talk about his own rather "unlikely" transformational journey (from investment analyst to a change agent), noting that his most significant learning came from failures and unintended consequences. He will then focus on three key lines of inquiry:
· Is "organizational change" often partial and is a wider "perspective" needed?
· Could an awareness of the various organizational "mindsets" inform and enhance the likelihood of organizational transformation?
· What would a more encompassing and generative organizational "mindset" look and feel like?
Given your own involvement in change through years of practice and living, what additional related lines of inquiry can you bring to the conversation this month? Consider Red and Blue Pen Companies as two possible mindsets that you as change agent might have to engage. What is the role of inquiry in organizational change? What is the relationship of "knowing" and "learning" stances to organizational change?
Biographical information
Armin helps executives develop clarity in the midst of complexity. As a former VP of Strategy at Wells Fargo and an International Investment Analyst, Armin facilitates strategic execution by interweaving and integrating the various aspects of organizational reality. His work ranges from facilitating large-scale strategic programs to leading cutting edge initiatives such as sustainability, social responsible investing (SRI) and innovation. He brings practical global experience in assessing the likelihood of strategic success in a rapidly changing world. Armin holds an undergraduate degree from UCLA, followed by a graduate degree in Organizational Development from a joint program at Oxford University and HEC School of Management. He is the Strategy & Learning Architect at Haig Barrett.
Contact Armin by e-mail at armin.pajand@haigbarrett.com with any questions you would like to share with him in preparation for his OD session with us. |
OD Details
Please join us for one or all of the hours of this month's OD. As always, you are invited to participate for as long, or as short, as you can in one or more of these sessions. Note that the conversations vary from session to session, due to a variety of causes, such as who participates and what questions are asked. This diversity is captured every month, as the calls are recorded and posted as mp3 files on a PWR OD website that is being created.
Option - Time (Pacific Time)
1 - Monday, July 26th - 12:00-1:00pm
2 - Monday, July 26th - 1:00-2:00pm
3 - Tuesday, July 27th - 12:00-1:00pm
4 - Tuesday, July 27th - 1:00-2:00pm
The agenda for each option will be:
Timing: Topic
Opening 10 minutes: Call in & Introductions
Next 45 minutes: Ongoing Discussion
Last 5 minutes: Farewells and Close
Please reply to this note by noon Pacific Time on Friday, July 23rd to confirm your plans to participate in one (or more) of these options. If you do plan to attend, please complete the OD PARTICIPATION SURVEY by using the link below...
PARTICIPANT SURVEY
Those of you connecting in Canoga Park can join us in the Omega Room at the DeSoto facility for both days with Armin, who will join us "live."
Telecon lines (including a pass code and a security code) have been arranged for those who cannot join us at the DeSoto facilty and are provided upon completion of the participant survey.
As always, please forward this announcement to anyone we missed who would also like to participate.
Regards...
Bill
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International Participants
Our conference call sessions are toll-free within the U.S. and Canada. Several international participants have been able to connect toll-free using Skype for a VOIP connection, which we now recommend to others calling in from outside the U.S. and Canada.
First, you'll need to establish a Skype account at www.skype.com. Once Skype is set up and functioning correctly the only thing that is different when connecting with our "InThinking Roadmap" conference call sessions ("OD" or "The New Economics Study Sessions") is the use of a pass code and security code. For our "OD" sessions, these numbers are provided once the "participant survey" is completed. For the "The New Economics Study Sessions," these numbers are provided in an email from Tim Higgins, who hosts these calls. In either case, when prompted by Skype to enter these codes, use the keyboard not voice option and be sure to turn off the computer's microphone, otherwise the numeric keys don't function. If the microphone is left on when the codes are entered, Skype's automated operator will reply with "number not recognized," as no number has been transmitted.
New users of Skype are encouraged to perform a conference call test in advance of the scheduled "InThinking Roadmap" conference call. Contact Bill Bellows to arrange for a test call. |
Future OD Dates
Mark your calendars - future Ongoing Discussion sessions will be held on the following dates (subject to slight changes), from 12-1pm and 1-2pm Pacific Time.
Month, Dates and Thought Leader(s):
August 26-27, To be determined
September 23-24, To be determined
October 14-15, Tribute to W. Edwards Deming
November 18-19, Arnie Goodman
December 16-17, To be determined
Note that the "OD" home page on the In2:InThinking Network web site is being moved to a PWR website. Stay tuned for the new address. |
Systems Thinking Newsletter
Available online for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne employees...
The Systems Thinker is an electronic newsletter made available monthly (on a subscription basis) by Pegasus Communications. Each issue provides articles and case studies on systems thinking concepts and is available only electronically (as a .pdf file). Tools and techniques for use in the Learning Organization are regularly included in this valuable publication. Featured authors include thought leaders and consultants well known in organizational learning and change management circles.
The current edition of the SYSTEMS THINKER, as well as archived issues from December 2002 through June 2010, is available for reading and printing by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne employees here.
Network friends outside of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne can learn more about this newsletter AND read a variety of sample issues and articles online. Individual and site licences are available. |
InThinking Roadmap Seminars and Workshops
The following in-house "InThinking Roadmap" seminars and workshops are open to employees of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR), as well as suppliers, customers, family members, and "Members of the Community." "Members of the Community" are individuals who are involved full or part time, or in a volunteer capacity, in community related work.
Background information on PWR's InThinking Roadmap, in addition to seminar and workshop descriptions and upcoming schedules, are being added to a new PWR website, to be announced. The schedule below includes the next available offerings for the listed seminars in Canoga Park, California. Contact Bill Bellows to request additional information.
Note that the dates listed below are subject to change. All times listed are Pacific Time. |
InThinking Together (formerly "ET")
Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend
Prerequisites - there are NO prerequisites
Format - two 4.5-hour sessions over two days, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Bill Bellows
Schedule for InThinking Together classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class #CP-2010-07
Part 1 - 26-Jul-10 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 27-Jul-10 - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-2010-08
Part 1 - 26-Aug-10 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 27-Aug-10 - 7:00-11:30am
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Six Thinking Hats
Registration Fee - there is no fee for PWR employees to attend. For visitors, we charge $165, payable to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
Prerequisite - attended InThinking Together (formerly "ET") within the past 12 to 14 months
Format - one 8-hour session, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Tim Higgins
Schedule for Six Thinking Hats classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class #CP-2010-02
To be determined
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Lateral Thinking
Registration Fee - there is no fee for PWR employees to attend. For visitors, we charge $120, payable to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
Prerequisite - in addition to Six Thinking Hats, attended InThinking Together (formerly "ET") within the past 12 to 14 months
Format - two 8-hour sessions, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Tim Higgins
Schedule for Lateral Thinking classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class #CP-2010-01
To be determined Register to attend Lateral Thinking |
Managing Variation as a System
Registration Fee - there is NO fee for employees to attend. Visitors are asked to bring a copy of the course textbook (Donald Wheeler's Understanding Variation), which can be purchased online for as low as $25. Follow this link to Amazon for one purchase option.
Prerequisite - there are NO prerequisites
Format - three 3-hour sessions over three days, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Joe Onstott
Class #CP-2010-01
To be determined
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Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving and Decision Making
Registration Fee - there is no fee for PWR employees to attend. For visitors, we charge $330, payable to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
Prerequisite - attended Enterprise Thinking within the past 12 to 14 months
Format - three 7-hour sessions over three weeks, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Tim Higgins
Suggestion: If you are unable to attend all three sessions in a given monthly series, we encourage you to attend the first session and then attend the second and third in any order during a future monthly series.
Schedule for Kepner-Tregoe classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
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The New Economics Study Session
Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend. In addition, this is a toll-free call from the United States and Canada. International participants are welcome to join in as well, provided they do so at their own expense for the conference call.
Prerequisite - there are NO prerequisites
Format - seven 2-hour sessions over three and a half weeks, offered as a teleconference event
Presented by: Tim Higgins
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Design of Experiments & Taguchi Methods - An Overview
Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend
Prerequisite - there are NO prerequisites
Format - eight 2-hour sessions over four weeks, offered both as an in-person event and a distance learning event
Presented by: Bill Bellows
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