Talk:Appreciative inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry was co-developed with Suresh Srivastva alongside David Cooperrider at the Weatherhead School of Management.

At the moment this page reads like a sales brochure fo AI as a technique. Its undoubtedly an important article but it lacks references, has a series of subjective and value laden phrases without citation. --Snowded (talk) 15:17, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've always been a bit skeptical of connection between the ideas of "appreciative systems" from Geoffrey Vickers, and "appreciative inquiry" which is practised by organization development consultants. I'm not saying that "appreciative inquiry" consulting is either good or bad, but just that I can't find the direct linkage to "appreciative systems" cited to Vickers.

In particular, this article points to Vickers (1986), which I believe means Value systems and social process. Taking advantage of search in Google books on the text, the word inquiry only comes up six times. I think that relevant hits are in chapter 7 on "Appreciative Behaviour", but still don't see the phrase "appreciative inquiry". (The chapter is a reprint: "This paper was originally published in Acta Psychologica, vol. XXI, no. 3, 1963." I have a copy of the book!)

It could be that more scholarship to make the linkage between "appreciative systems" and "appreciative inquiry" explicit. I'm not close enough to this work to make that bridge. Daviding (talk) 19:20, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Huh?

I read this article. I still do not understand what AI is supposed to achieve and how AI people go about it. Should I care? — Solo Owl (talk) 00:31, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Seems OK

I had a course on this recently, although I am no expert. From what little I do know, this is a fairly good (if incomplete) representation of AI. I hope that in the future, someone more knowledgeable can add to it.