Author: Positive Change Corps Positive Change Corps West Springfield, MA Date 01/01/2002 Annotation: This case study describes the process taken by a public school system in MA which embraced a strength-based change initiative using an Appreciative Inquiry Summit design to…
Author: Larissa Marczak Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH United States Date 09/01/1998 Annotation: Nutrimental is a food company founded in Curitiba in 1968. Its business consists of dehydrating food. For many years Nutrimental worked only with the government that…
Author: Bliss W. Browne Imagine Chicago Chicago, IL United States Date 01/01/1999 Annotation: IMAGINE CHICAGO is a non-profit organization, created in 1992, and dedicated to cultivating hope and civic commitment. It enlists young people, and others who want to make…
Author: WSOMWeatherhead: The Magazine of the Weatherhead School of ManagementDate 01/01/2000Pages: 18-19Annotation: In 2000, David Cooperrider was invited by Richard Blum, a San Francisco investment banker, and Bishop Swing, leader of the United Religions Initiative, on behalf of His Holiness…
Author: Neil Samuels , Glyn Willoughby Heathside School Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom Date 11/01/2002 Annotation: This paper describes the process taken by the Heathside School in the UK utilizing an AI process with teachers, students, parents, governors, and administration. Heathside…
Author: Christopher Szecsey , Harmony Union School Board Harmony Union School District Date 01/01/2002 Annotation: This report describes the process taken by the Harmony School District and is, in essence, a case study of their initiative.Harmony School District initiated a…
Author: H L Newman , S P Fitzgerald Organization Development Journal Date 01/01/2001 Pages: 37-44 Annotation: A large-scale organizational change effort was initiated in a 120-person non-profit metropolitan health care facility beginning in 1996. This case summarizes the history of…
Author: Gina Hinrichs , Jim Ludema , Debbie Morris John Deere Moline, IL Date 04/01/2000 Annotation: An Appreciative Inquiry Summit (AI Summit) approach was used in a business renewal initiative with a manufacturing unit of the John Deere company.This case…
Author: Ilma O. Barros , David L. Cooperrider Nutrimental Industria e Comercio de Alimentos S.A. Curitiba, PR Brazil Date 08/14/2001 Annotation: Appreciative Inquiry Fostering Wholeness in Organizations Sourced from http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/We are all in search for completeness; thus aiming at making…
Author: Marlo Derksen , Tom Osborn Date 07/31/2001 Annotation: This case study is published in APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY: Change at the Speed of Imagination written by Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard Mohr, 2001, part of The Practicing Organization Development Series by…