How can case studies be used in our work?

At our March 13 “Learning From Experience” program meeting, we had two presentations on“Case Studies for Your Edutainment”.

In the first, Anne Litwin, with the aid of the “ODLG Players,” showed us an actual case illustrating the importance for both externals and internals of the entry and contracting phase of client-consultant collaboration.

In second, Harvy Simkovits led us through some “mini-cases” and showed us how these can be constructed from our experiences.

As with our June 2005 “Case Studies” program, those attending found it to be entertaining and rewarding evening, in the Learning Group tradition of experiential learning and “learning as fun”.

We’ve chosen as our Question of the Month the general question of how the case study method can be used in OD practice. If members are interested, we could also do case study learning via this or a specially dedicated blog or even via a new special interest group.