APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY: Change at the Speed of Imagination, SECOND EDITION

Multiple Models of the Five Generic Core Processes of AI

In fact, these generic processes have already taken on the form of “AI process models” (the 5-D model, the 4-I model, the original AI model, etc.). Each of these existing “process models” draws attention to different parts of the five generic processes in a way that is helpful in seeing the variations that are possible.

The Original Cooperrider/Srivastva Model

When first introduced (Cooperrider & Srivastva, 1987) this “model” was part of the transition from thinking about AI as purely an approach to the building of generative theory to thinking about AI more directly as a process for intervening in and changing organizations. The model is shown in Figure 3.3.

Figure 3.3. Dimensions of ...