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# Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
📰 **Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a collaborative approach to organisational change and development that focuses on identifying and building upon an organisation's strengths and successes, rather than focusing on problems and deficiencies.**
🕵🏻♂️ *AI*
✍🏻 [[Jeremy Neideck]]
![[Appreciative Inquiry.svg]]
## 📖 Overview
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a collaborative approach to organisational change and development that focuses on identifying and building upon an organisation's strengths and successes, rather than focusing on problems and deficiencies.[^1] [^2] [^3] [^4]
### [[AI - Key Principles|Key Principles of Appreciative Inquiry]]
![[AI - Key Principles.svg]]
## [[AI - 5-D Model|The 5-D Model of Appreciative Inquiry]]
![[AI - 5-D Model.svg]]
## Application
AI has been successfully applied in a wide range of organisational contexts, from small businesses to large corporations, to drive positive change and innovation.[^3] [^4] The approach emphasises engaging all stakeholders, building on existing strengths, and creating a shared vision for the future.[^1] [^3] [^5]
## ⛏️ Resources
- [[Jane Magruder Watkins, Bernard Mohr, Ralph Kelly - Appreciative Inquiry - Change at the Speed of Imagination]]
- [[Margarida Alpuim, Katja Ehrenberg - Appreciative Inquiry - How to ask questions that focus on growth]]
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## 📝 Notes
## ⛵️ Log
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## ⛲ Sources
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[^1]: [What Is Appreciative Inquiry? A Very Quick Introduction](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-appreciative-inquiry-very-quick-introduction-andy-smith)
[^2]: [Anne T. Coghlan, Hallie Preskill, Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas - An overview of appreciative inquiry in evaluation](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.96)
[^3]: [Appreciative Inquiry - Processes, Applications and Examples](https://positivitystrategist.org/appreciative-inquiry/)
[^4]: [What is Appreciative Inquiry](https://cvdl.ben.edu/blog/what-is-appreciative-inquiry/)
[^5]: [Appreciative Inquiry – Organizing Engagement](https://organizingengagement.org/models/appreciative-inquiry/)
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**Created**: [[2023-01-12|Thursday 12 January 2023]]
**Published**: [[2024-05-05|Sunday 05 May 2024]]
**Updated**: 09:35 [[2024-05-09|Thursday 09 May 2024]]
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