TOCICO

ToC France is a non-profit organization aiming to promote the TOC body of knowledge in French-speaking countries. It proposes to discuss the S&T tree used to align its members' energies. It was set up on July 26th, 2012 by 8 founding members. ToC France aims to accept new members in the spring of 2013. In order to align its members' energies and to clearly understand the actions and resources needed to put the organization into action, a few founding members decided to write an S&T tree to guide the startup activities. The presenters propose to discuss this S&T tree during a workshop for the following reasons : - the content of this S&T tree can serve as blueprint for the setup of local (non-profit) TOC promoting organizations in other countries, - the discussion, scrutiny and feedback of other TOC practitioners engaged in similar activities will be mutually beneficial, - potential founders of local TOC promoting organizations can benefit from the shared knowledge and experience. Detail main challenges, obstacles in writing and gaining consensus on the S&T tree. - The fact that some members were not familiar with the questions / framework for each node resulted in a slow startup of the tree review. - The fact that some members were not interested in the exercise but wanted quick results made them unaware of the answers embedded in the tree. - The approach seemed too conceptual for some members who were asking for a more concrete way of managing this startup project. Detail main benefits experienced from the S&T tree building exercise: - The building of the S&T tree allowed to clarify the founding members’ thinking and put it together in an organized whole.