Sent to GMU on 23 Oct 2000. Sent to ASU on 6 Nov 2000. Although the title is grouped with the Workshop #3 Series, this seminar, conducted with assistance of IASIS, was not really part of Workshop #3, but rather was an outgrowth of it, when participants at the Third Analytical Powertrain Workshop began to understand how the difficulties in planning and managing came about because of cultural barriers within the company, rather than technical ones. The Cultural Seminar was a meeting to discuss the different aspects of that reality, and it was held the day following Workshop #3, on August 20. Five days later, on 25 August, Workshop #4 took place at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn. It was followed in December by a Fifth Analytical Powertrain Workshop.
At GMU’s Fenwick Library in Fairfax, Virginia there are many documents about these Ford workshops. (Warfield Special Collection # C0016). Most are in Boxes 41 and 13.
A key paper in relation to this Culture Seminar might be this title by Scott Staley, in Box 41 folder 25 “Science of Cultural Change in Organizations, Sept 1, 1992. I did not have a chance to read it or scan it, but I feel pretty certain it is the material for Scott’s White Paper used for 4th and possibly the 5th workshops.
Also of interest :
Box 41, folder 22 "Options Profile Data& Cultural Problems - Ford Workshop"
Box 41 folder 23 "The 36 Highest Priority Long Term Cultural Options," a table.
Box 20, Folder 36: “Transfer of Interactive Management Technology to Ford Motor Company,” ]of which we also have an online digitized copy.
Box 94, folder 24. “Notes on the Ford Culture 5th interactive Management Workshop”of which we have an online digitized copy.
r.w. 2/21/2007
