Articles May 1, 2012 The AI Practitioner Journal, May 2012 Guest Editors: David Cooperrider, Lindsey Godwin, Brodie Boland and Michel Avital Over two decades ago, David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva’s Appreciative Inquiry into Organizational Life (Cooperrider and Srivastva, 1987) forever changed the way we look at organization development and change – it shifted our attention from the world of organizational life as ‘a problem-to-be-solved’ to the world brimming with innovation and a ‘universe-of-strengths.’ Since then, the Appreciative Inquiry Summit methodology has emerged as a key methodology for bringing together ‘whole systems’ to identify the strengths that exist within the organization and to co-create the future vision for the organization. From one-day to four-day events, AI summits may bring together anywhere from 50 to 3000 people to work together on a strategic change initiative. The idea of the summit may appear bold at first, but it is based on a simple notion: when it comes to enterprise innovation and integration, there is nothing that brings out the best in human systems – faster, more consistently, and more effectively – than the power of ‘the whole’. Read the Full Issue Tags in this article Summit Sustainability
