The Core Principles of AI

Are Principles Important?

While the 5-D cycle for applying Appreciative Inquiry is presented here as a systematic approach to organization change, it is important to understand that variations on or even alternatives to this model will inevitably emerge as each system takes the AI approach and makes it their own. Once grounded in the principles of AI, organizations inevitably become generative and creative, which leads to even more innovation in the application of AI.

In the original work of Appreciative Inquiry, five principles are articulated:

1. Constructionist

2. Anticipatory

3. Simultaneity

4. Poetic

5. Positive

The sixth, wholeness, was added later. (Several authors have added other principles to this list, ...

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