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Interview and Conversation Research
By I-Open Team
I-Open Interview and Conversation Research
"The purpose of the video interviews is to post them on line so that visions can be heard and
resources can be shared. Maybe this is part of bringing the healing and spiritual circles
together (a.k.a. Networking)." - Pam Fitch, Canton, Ohio
Introduction
I-Open harvests knowledge from:
Individual interviews -- these are the stories of business, government, academic
and civic leaders acting on their insights and innovations and,
Open Conversations -- which focus on powerful topics affecting economic
development in communities and their regions.
I-Open interviews:
Build trust
Help people to get their ideas out to others
Inform and align public and private investment
Build local and global connectivity
Provide a systemic view of economic development from single perspectives
Are foundation building to the I-Open Civic Forum process
Contributors:
Discover new opportunities through the lens of Open Source Economic
Development
Connect with like-minded leaders
Gain new insights from alternate perspectives
Learn about new discoveries from cross disciplinary leaders
Engage with a community of leaders actively changing the world
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Are re-invigorated with a new sense of connectedness
The Value of Interview and Conversation Research
To share the best innovation we can find in theoretical and practical research
Report on priority needs of society by illuminating disparate, but common "threads"
of discovery
Inventory a broad range of indicators; from economic paradigm shifts to subtle
insights
Refine criteria, benchmark, and metrics for enterprise development
Advise investment of economic development resources
Identify emergent innovations for enterprise collaboration
Who is Research Data useful to?
Business, government, academic and civic leaders
Economic development professionals, entrepreneurs, students, foundation leaders
I-Open Collaborative Communities
How is research data collected, organized and published?
Collection
I-Open builds open networks of collaboration with
Colleges, Universities and Libraries embedded in these networks to access
theoretical research;
Leaders in the "Civic Space" - everything outside the four walls of any organization
- to access practical research;
How to get started:
A single civic entrepreneur or researcher, small group, or larger group of civic
entrepreneurs or researchers offer to provide an interview, conversation for taping
by contacting
The interview is created with I-Open. Individuals may independently post their
content to I-Open; just contact and we'll get you started
Desired content deliverables: a finished edited video of < 10 min and/or an
extended interview <30 min
Organized
Information is organized by the Innovation Framework, a meta filter for content and
further organized by categories, topics and tags to comprise an actionable
research portfolio with practical examples to guide economic development
investment in fast changing regional economies;
Interviews are organized by high level concepts and topics. From this data issue
briefs will be published (2010) to guide citizens, business, government and
academic leaders of innovation and economic development investment
opportunities.
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Published
Content is sorted by Innovation Framework category, topic and tag
Listed on the Research Matrix page
Posted to http://www.livestream.com/iopen
Posted to I-Open as a Livestream player and transcribed
Shared with other I-Open films to strengthen the value and relationship to Open
Source Economic Development.
Interviews are posted on I-Open channels and media platforms; all content is
available for viewing, comment and re-posting
Content is copyright by I-Open and published under a Creative Commons
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Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103
USA
Attribution is given to contributing individual(s) and I-Open
If you have questions or suggestions for improvement please post your comments here or contact
Interview Questions
A. INTRODUCTION
Working in networked economies requires us to make cognitive shifts, to view whole
systems and to qualify our relevance. This work takes place at the peripheries of networks.
Based on your interests, your cultural history and experience,
1. What are you passionate about now?
2. What would you like people to know, think, feel and do?
3. What do you see for the future?
B. CATEGORY
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Innovation Framework -- helps us to identify where we invest our attention, our
relationship to others and the value we bring to the larger picture of Open Source
Economic development. Work here takes place in a loose hub of people with shared
interests.
1. What category of the Innovation Framework do you primarily invest
your time and attention? Brainpower? Networks? Quality, Connected
Place? Dialogue and Inclusion? or Branding Stories?
2. Is there a secondary category you also work in?
3. Which category would you like to collaborate with next?
C. TOPIC
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Strategic Doing -- requires a behavioral shift in our focus away from Strategic Planning (3
- 5 years) to continuous, iterative, and incremental cycles of strategic activities (30-60-90
days) by aligning, linking and leveraging networks and resources resulting in transformative
initiatives and creating a culture of "Enterprise Collaboration" focused in a core team.
Explore Research
1. What research areas interest you? Why?
2. What information do you share with others?
3. Do you participate in collaborative leadership? With whom? Why?
4. Who would you like to be connected to that you are not?
Focus on Networks
1. What networks are you building? Why? How?
2. What is your criteria for mapping knowledge networks?
3. What criteria do you use to identify best practices in those networks?
Align for Enterprise
1. What is the next enterprise opportunity you see? Why?
2. How much time would you like to spend on this opportunity, from idea
to execution?
3. Whose insights and guidance do you/would you engage?
4. What benchmarks and measurements do you use in your work?
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Execute and Educate
1. What next steps do you envision to pro-actively respond to the
powerful topics affecting communities and their regions, such as:
climate change, green job creation, water, land, energy, technology,
and health care?
2. How do you/could you pro-actively participate in innovative education,
economic and workforce development?
3. How will your research/business serve the sustainability of
communities and their regions 50 years from now?
Closing
Is there anything you would like to add to this interview information?
Feedback
How would you improve this interview?
Helpful links
I-Open Overview and Background
http://i-open-2.near-time.net/wiki/i-open
Interview Questions
http://i-open-2.near-time.net/wiki/interview-questions
Research Matrix
http://i-open-2.near-time.net/wiki/research-matrix
I-Open Livestream channel
http://www.livestream.com/iopen
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Copyright July 2009, Betsey Merkel, I-Open
with contributions by Susan Altshuler, Dennis Coughlin, I-Open and thanks to Ed Morrison, I-Open
Distributed under Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)
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