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Caterfly

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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?’

Our recommendation is for an ongoing platform or culture of Kaizen continuous improvement, interspersed once, twice a year with a mega-burst of radical innovation activity through Open Space Innovation events...

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.

OPEN SMART TRANSFORMATION (OST) MODEL Version 1.0 Copyright (C) Martin Grimshaw, Francois Knuchel & Daniel Mezick (author of Prime/OS™) 2014-15 Shared under a ‘Free Culture’ ‘Attribution-Share Alike’ Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : You may use this work as you like, including creating derivatives and commercial use, but you MUST provide proper attribution and share your work [...]

Creative solutions to the problems we all face, should be made freely available for the mutual benefit of everyone. We want to keep innovation for the common good, in the hands of the Commons. Like science. Unless otherwise stated, all material here is licensed under a Free Culture, Copyleft, Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

‘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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