Douglass Carmichael's Web Site   minor updates January 2006


Overview of Consulting Approach

To help clients be more stategic about their future. Often caught in the vortex of current activity, leadership forgets to look down the road, and the leadership and staff are not organized to learn from each other. By a judiscious use of scenario building, followed by rethinking the staff's skills and structures, a more vital and high morale organization can emerge. See the ideal integrated model

Scenario building by the leaership shows how much people individually know about the future, but that the strategy of the organization does not fit this knowledge. Buding scenarios lets a shared vison and increased appreciation of local competence emerge from the interactions.

Open space is a way of increasing participation and understanding deeper into the organization.

Cyber Architecture means looking at the Internet and the full information architecture that supports the emerging strategy of the organiztion and the informatic support needed by the teams, internal and external to the organization. The creative use of the Internet, includig public blogging, helps create strategy and increases morale.

Personal coaching is a way for individual leaders to gain confidence and reflection on their roles and goals.

Calendar details
I can be reached at
my office at
Duncans Mills on the Russian river in California (mail to PO box 136)
email doug phone 707-865-9960 fax 413-480-2248  

This is one of many points in the web, helping it to become a stage for action about
the human future. On that stage many of us are busy looking to this medium
to create a better world..