Notes from the 2009 COMO conference in Columbus GA Design your way to a future proof library What does organizational fitness mean? Pennsylvania clear cut forests now beautiful national forests Lumber industry did not make it thru the 1920s, they did not future proof, just clear cut without any thought to the future When was the last time you exercised with books in your library? There is some connection between personal fitness and organizational fitness, it has to do with commitment to change Darwin, survival of the fitness, natural selection, Future proofing – issue of library journal trying to put a system in place in the future what should we be doing to make sure our org stays fit, stays strong so we can keep doing all the important things we’re doing don’t try to predict the future instead use design thinking, instructional design clip from jim Collins, good to be paranoid Only the Paranoid Survive – book by Andrew S. Cline Inflection curve, always going through a cycle of improvement and decline, when you get to the inflection point you either continue to go up or you go down, and start the cycle over again One of the most disruptive
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