Contribute to the

Requisite Organization in Spanish Project

The Need

Resources to support CEOs and general managers in strategy formulation and organization design are relatively limited as the market for executive level books is small.  Furthermore, the materials that do exist are primarily in English and mostly held as proprietary by the major management consulting firms.  Those senior consultants who do work at executive levels offer glimpses of their approaches but the materials are protected by expensive royalty systems and are tightly controlled.  The approaches that are more or less in the public domain are mostly fragmentary, flavour-of-the-month approaches.  Many CEOs searching for solutions are faced with a confusion of expensive fragmentary approaches overwhelmed by their complexity and non-alignment of fragments to each other.

While some approaches like the quality movement demonstrate continuing validity, there are enough poorly understood contingent factors, that project success rates remain disappointingly low.

What is missing is a science-based, integrated systematic approach to designing and managing organizations, widely available at low cost to general managers throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

The Opportunity and Available Resources

Since 2004, the Global Organization Design Society has embarked on a mission to document world-wide experience in using an integrated approach to designing and managing organizations based on the concepts of Wilfred Brown and Elliott Jaques.

During 2009, the society worked to identify Spanish speaking resources, produce video interviews with senior practitioners and to plan public events including a world conference in Spanish that will be video recorded for later free access of the web.

The Proposed RO in Spanish Program

The objective of the RO in Spanish Program is to produce and post extensive Spanish language materials on an integrated science-based approach to designing and managing organizations - to be available free or at very low cost to managers throughout the Spanish-speaking world

The materials and resources will consist of:

• Articles, books, theses and dissertations in Spanish
• Video interviews of senior practitioners experienced in requisite organization - CEOs, general managers, consultants and academics.
• Video recordings of professional development workshops in the field
• Videos of presentations at the world conference on organization design
• Web-based learning modules contributed by senior Spanish-speaking practitioners.
• Web-supported mentoring of Spanish speaking managers by Spanish speaking practitioners -- at below market rates.

How Your Organization Can Benefit

Many large organizations spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to expose their senior executives to world class management systems.  Smaller organizations, not able to afford these fees often do without.

Now global organizations that have Spanish speaking regional offices or large and small organizations located in Spanish-speaking countries will now be able to access quality materials on organization design without the barriers of cost, time away, and travel.

Your organization can arrange for early privileged access to these materials.

The Roles

The Global Organization Design Society,

Its board and staff will play a leadership and coordinative role as well as:

• produce, edit, and post Spanish language video interviews with senior practitioners of requisite organization including CEOs, general managers, employees at various levels of requisite organizations, consultants and academics.

• sponsor workshops on teaching requisite organization more effectively in Spanish, also video recording and posting the events.

• sponsor professional development workshops in Spanish, also video recording and posting the events.

• sponsor workshops and conferences in the Spanish language -- all video recorded.

Its contractors will edit and post Spanish language material

Its affiliates will volunteer to staff the professional development workshops, the conference and to volunteer teaching materials and time to develop on-line learning modules and to provide mentoring in Spanish

Acindar Acero will contribute various professional development materials the company developed to train their own employees over an eight year project - including workshop designs, exercises, role plays and other resources

ITBA will contribute its experience in offering professional development in requisite organization to all of its engineering students and its information technology skills, it's on-line learning software, and its computers to host requisite organization materials for use by Spanish-speaking managers around the world.

ADRHA,  Asociación de Recursos Humanos de Argentina, will co-sponsor this project and encourage its major corporate members to contribute financially to building the infrastructure for this free professional development resource.

The Budget - Phase I - 2009-2010

Video-interviews with CEOs and senior practitioners in Spanish -                                           ---  $6,500

Simultaneous translation at professional development workshops and conference                   --  $15,000

Video production & post-production of professional development workshops &conference.       --  $10,000

Tailoring of Open-source web-based learning software to our project's needs                          --  $10,000

How You or Your Organization Can Contribute

Your organization can gain early privileged access to these web-based learning materials for senior executives when you make a contribution to the GO Society's RO in Spanish Project.  We suggest that you consider donating $5,000 or more USD to the project.  With the support of eight or ten early sponsors the project's quality and on-time delivery will be assured.