What Is Appreciative Inquiry?

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  hht08/19/08 Report as spam
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  Can anyone explain how this is different to Prahalad/Hamel's core competencies? Other introducing a process that makes consultants money and people feel better about themselves, I don't really see anything new.

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  stephenjgill08/20/08 Report as spam
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  In response to hht, I would say that you can use AI to identify and plan to apply an organization's core competencies. So in that sense AI works well with the Prahalad/Hamel approach. But the important thing about AI is starting with what works, not what doesn't work. My experience is that we learn more from our successes than from our failures. The problem is that people usually want to talk about what's wrong. They want to complain about gaps, weaknesses, problems, etc. AI keeps the planning process focused on building on success, which is a positive, more energizing approach and, in the long run, more productive.

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  luisfegoz@...08/20/08 Report as spam
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  "Appreciative Inquiry brings humanity and relationship back ento an organizational world that has long sought to supress these in the interest of productivity. Appreciative Inquiry challenges us to reject the view of organizations, and by implication people, as machines and to begin to value them as human communities with the potential not just to enhance our material world but also to bring us back into deep relationship with one another...Appreciative Inquiry meets a deep-seated need in each one to be respected, to be listened and to have the opportunity to shape de future.
  Appreciative Inquiry is:
  - The organization as living.
  - Organization as human.
  .Organization as systems.
  - Belief in the power of appreciation to promote growth.
  - Belief in the power of inquiry.
  - The power of talk to change things.
  - The power of imagination to produce change.
  - The power of positive emotional energy to achieve change.
  - The belief that language is creative.
  - Belief in the place and power of stories in organizational life."
  
  From "Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management: Using AI to Facilitate Organizational Development"
  
  Lewis, Passmore & Cantore

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  gpoudal08/21/08 Report as spam
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  This approach can effectively work only in the organization, where employee feel they are not the "job holder" in the organization, rather 'a family member"..
  I found this approach quite effetive in family matter, where everyone strive for a common goal.

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  ms. e08/22/08 Report as spam
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  makes sense to focus on what is done well, and again push for making things better still. if we can be guided by distilled simplicity in all these, we can transform organizations and communities in the long term. recognising everyone's efforts and being grateful for them helps. problem: there will be difficult people to deal with, but hey, they can't stop the great things from happening.

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  D2KK08/29/08 Report as spam
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  Sounds a lot like the Toyota Way....

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  hmmm. Sounds a lot like some "outside consultants" have repackaged and renamed the Toyota Way....

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  evita.fernandes08/31/08 Report as spam
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  Its a nice concept to be used in organisations and in personal lives. According to me AI, as mentioned is a positive concept to bring in change in the organisations workings. But why cant AI be useful as a short term improvement concept. If a project has to be completed in near future, in the initial planning period itself AI can be used. Here as stated in the 1st step the positives and achievements of previous projects could be discussed , team stengths or organisations strengths could be discussed. So i conclude saying that according to my understanding AI is a positive improvement concept which can be used for achievmentof long term as well as short term goals.

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  hht08/31/08 Report as spam
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  OK. So I get that AI is an extension of the "core competencies" concept. But surely any manager worth their pay check would have made that step without the need for this contrived process.
  
  Like D2KK, I still tend to think this is a flavour of the month consultant-driven fad. I see lots of positive vocabulary, and no real substance.

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  nidhimos09/03/08 Report as spam
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  AI can be a really useful tool once we are all tuned in to the same frequency. In most cases that I have experienced, in these kind of situations--people tend to have their own preset agenda that they would like to enforce on to the team.

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  Appreciative Inquiry challenges us to reject the view of organizations, and by implication people. gogus buyutme ameliyati