The charts tell a good story.
Now, what if you asked them to consider not how the IT is organized thus
affects them but what "architecture" they should have and how IT could
enable that.
----- Original Message ----- > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:33:47 -0400
> From: Rick Kennett <
rickk@guildweb.com>
> Subject: Re: Help with cross-cultural stories!!!
>
> Ok... I am not certain I have this right. Cross cultural stories, or
stories
> that might be effective regardless of culture. One thing that did click
was
> the notion that stories of "experiences from our own perspective and
> vision"... can distort a message. (another topic) :-)
>
> So I will take a stab at a story.... A long time ago maybe 6 or 7 years
ago
> I subscribed to this list and another (BPR-L). At the time I was wrasslin
> with the difficulties involved in changing our organization, its business
> processes systems , procedures, etc. These problems were frequent topics
of
> discussion amongst many experts on both lists. I learned a lot in
> participating and compiled much of what I learned into a presentation. I
> used this presentation at a meeting and confronted many of the more vocal
> resistors (and others) with the source of their perceptions about work,
> about, systems and change. It was effective beyond what I ever expected as
> folks were able to acknowledge the origins of their thinking. The
> presentation is here
http://www.guildweb.com/docs/perspect.htm
> The end result was significantly improved (and increased) dialog which
> progressively eased the struggle with change. Now the caveat.... is this
my
> perception of their perception? We could chase that round for hours. In
any
> event, cross cultural or not, its a story... my story an I'm stickpin to
it.
> Hope I wasn't too far off the mark.
> L8R
> Rick
>
>