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//**Welcome to OUR Organizational Systems Wiki!**//

This Wiki is for the convenience of all students in **Organization Systems: Leveraging for Sustainable Innovation** facilitated by Professor William Becker. It is an electronic meeting place as well as a course information-library where you will find:
 * A description of the course and all of its requirements
 * A kind of roadmap of the sequence of the course
 * Weekly Assignments
 * A place to upload specific papers
 * Relevant articles
 * A page dedicated for your personal assignments as well as a page for group project work
 * A forum to share ideas

Wiki's are used by many of today's businesses. Interactive tools (web 2.0 or social media), such as a Wiki are having great impacts on organizations, as well as formal and informal learning. An effort will be made to share the advantages and effects of social tools in this course as technologies are an integral part of every system.

Another of the integral parts of successful systems is that members are committed to the organizations goals, are honest and stratight forward in their behaviors, creative, and treat others in a respectful manner. Therefore, for all of us in this course will demonstrate these characteristics by:
 * being responsible and accessing class study discussion questions and assignments on this Wiki
 * arrive on time, have done their assignments and will participate in class
 * respecting everyone in the room and be professional in all activities

//**Remember this: Every student "earns" the grade they get - grades are not "given". Everyone begins with an "A"**// //**and if you meet the course requirements you will keep the "A" and even more important be able to apply what you have learned.**// //**Again WELCOME - Professor Becker**// //**WHAT PAST STUDENTS HAVE SAID ABOUT THIS COURSE**//
 * Should you have the urge to copy or rewrite someone else's work - DON'T DO IT! It would be like having** **someone else take driving lessons for you, and with similar results!** //**Besides,** **the softest pillow is a clear conscience!**//
 * The understanding of the role of the consultant and your patience Mr. Becker.
 * The knowledge and real world experience we shared with Professor Becker that helped us to understand better the different strategies.
 * I think that the things I have appreciated the most are your consulting past experiences and you knowledge. I really appreciate when you show us your consultant work paper.
 * I appreciated the atmosphere in the class and your personality. I also appreciated the hands-0n exercises we performed the second part of the class.
 * ...To learn the different ways to practice consulting because I had no idea before.
 * The sum up of the course at the end of the class and the case studies and the [team] report.
 * On-line platform for assignments - experience of the teacher.
 * Professor gave us the opportunity to create our own model. It was empowerment and expression of feelings and values.
 * The teacher! I've learned a lot and will try to apply it in real life.
 * The fact that you gave us a chance to work in teams. Your knowledge about OD that really interested me.
 * Group exercise, teamwork. The feeling to be free to speak about anything with the professor.
 * Yourself Professor Becker - really improve the way you teach us 2nd half of the class - Plus the tools used - Really interesting subject course that I have discovered..Thank you.
 * It was really pleasant to have a real interventionist full of skills and knowledge as professor.
 * The professionalism of the teacher by support and experience that Professor Becker bring along the course.
 * The project as a consulting team! To be a consultant is very fun! Thank you very much!!
 * What I appreciated the most was the fact that the professor always kept a positive attitude even though the class was distracted at times.
 * The ability of the professor to answer the questions the class asked him.
 * I really enjoyed this class as the subject is wide and involves every department of an organization. It is really stimulating! Thank you!