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July Meeting: Behind the Scenes – The Making of a Global Innovator

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Behind the Scenes – The Making of a Global Innovator – Procter & Gamble

Date:  Saturday, July 17, 2010

Time:  9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern

Location:  Atlanta Community Food Bank

Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest consumer products and services company (#22 on the Fortune 500), continues to meet the changing needs of the world’s consumers (in 180 countries), while remaining true to its 170+ year history.

Come get “a peek behind the curtain,” as two former P&G managers discuss their experiences at the company (from their varied perspectives), and the role of OD in its most recent change initiative – Organization 2005.

In this session, you will gain:

  • Insight into a corporation that has played a major role in all of our lives
  • A deeper understanding of The Organization Performance Model (developed by Dave Hannah while at P&G) and still used today.

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Meeting Notes on The Future of OD

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

DSCN0772We were pleased to welcome the Executive Director of OD Network, Dr. Peter Norlin, to our August OCA meeting on Saturday.  He joined us live via Skype and conference phone from Michigan (that’s him on the big screen TV).

Using the Whole-Scale(tm) Change model developed by Dannemiller Tyson and Associates, the meeting was designed to begin a dialogue about the future of the OD field and what that means for us as practitioners.  The results will lead into OCA’s strategic planning process.

Dr. Norlin shared with us his view on the future of the field.  Some predictions he made were:

  • There will be culture implications as organizations face having as many as 4 generations simultaneously at work.
  • Work will consist of employees that do not fit into organizational boundaries, due to outsourcing arrangements.
  • There will be a diffusion of OD expertise into different internal jobs in organizations.
  • As practitioners, we will need to help employees deal with escalating anxiety and fear, as change occurs more rapidly.

The second half of the meeting focused internally to answer the questions, “What does this mean to me?” and “What do I need from OCA?”  The answers to those questions, plus the results of a questionnaire to be sent to the rest of the OCA community, will be used to help OCA plot its path forward.

Thank you to those who participated!

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Notes on OD in the Public vs. Private Sector

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

On Friday, March 20, Jim Lientz, Chief Operating Officer of the State of Georgia, spoke to a larger-than-usual crowd at the OCA meeting.  He shared some of the challenges of organizational change in government, and offered tips on what has been done in the current administration to move toward the goal of being the best managed state in the nation.

According to Lientz, Georgia is currently the ninth largest state with 9.5 million people, with expectations of being the fifth or sixth largest in the next few years.

Lientz repeated many values statements, showing how these principles have been ingrained in the State’s employees since the Purdue administration began in 2002:

  • Principle centered leadership
  • Customer focus
  • “Faster, friendlier, easier”
  • “Teamwork, communication, accountability”
  • Measurement and fact-based decision making

He shared many examples of the state becoming more well-managed.  He and his team implemented a number of new systems, such as fleet management, real estate management, and improved processes such as the accounting close.  Claiming that “it all starts with people,” Lientz shared his approach to leadership development and culture change.

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