Partners
OpenBook supports the work, and benefits from the work, of other consulting, training, and learning organizations. Human dynamics are complex and multifacted. None of us has a handle on all of it. We expand our brainwidth by working with other smart people.
David Allen Company
David Allen Company is a global training and consulting company, widely considered the leading authority in the fields of organizational and personal productivity. The company provides services around the world to large enterprises, government agencies, non-profits, entrepreneurs, educators, and students. The company’s deliverables are available in both the corporate and private sector and are designed to increase performance, capacity, and aligned execution.
OpenBook President Frank Sopper was an early student of David Allen’s understanding of Workflow. OpenBook practices Getting Things Done.
Hear an interview conducted by David Allen, author of several best sellers including Getting Things Done with OpenBook’s President Frank Sopper about OpenBook Cognitive Effectiveness.
Lean Systems Institute
Based in Silicon Valley, the Lean Systems Institute (LSI) is a global research and consulting firm that helps knowledge-intensive organizations implement Lean and thereby leverage the intellectual potential of their people for finding smarter ways of working. We are working with LSI to understand how knowledge of cognitive preference can be used to accelerate organizational learning. For an initial exploration of this topic, see this webinar that we held jointly with LSI in October 2012.
Watch Cognition and Organizational Performance, a webinar done with Frode Odegard, CEO of LSI in Menlo Park.
Collins Consulting
Collins Consulting is a Boston based consulting firm that specializes in leadership team alignment work. Greg Collins, who heads the firm, is a management consultant and leadership coach who helps clients develop, articulate, and successfully communicate growth strategies, and build teams capable of implementing and iterating those strategies to achieve sustainable revenue and profit growth. His work focuses on aligning the members of the client’s leadership team as a critical step in clarifying and then implementing any strategy. In doing so, Greg focuses on both individual and organizational change as the critical means of delivering results.