Some Stanford University Medical Center OD Experiments: Personal Chronicles

Pravir Malik
3 min readJan 10, 2021

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Captured here are links to a series of Organizational Development (OD) experiments I ran between 2009–2014 when I was a part of the Stanford University Medical (SUMC) Center OD Department. Many of these experiments and approaches, I think, achieved milestones in the field of Organizational Development.

Note, eleven of these blog-posts were written in early 2015, soon after I left SUMC. For various reasons, the twelfth piece was written 3 years later, in 2018. I discovered that the previous summary piece listing these twelve posts no longer exists, and so decided to summarize these here.

  1. Some OD Experiments at Stanford University Medical Center — I

2. Fractal-Based OD Experiments at Stanford University Medical Center — II

3.OD Experiments at Stanford University Medical Center: Accelerating Team Development — III

4.OD Odyssey at Stanford University Medical Center — IV

5. OD Experiments at Stanford University Medical Center: The Mirror Effect — V

6. SuccessFactors Sings For Stanford University Medical Center — VI

7. Horse Sense & Reality of Academic Incrementalism: Encounters with Stanford Graduate School of Business — VII

8. Working with an Intensive Care Unit: OD Experiments at Stanford University Medical Center — VIII

9. Advocating for Human-Oriented Sustainability Standards: OD Journey at Stanford University Medical Center — IX

10. New Ways of Removing Waste: OD Experiments at Stanford University Medical Center — X

11.The Flower Chronicles: OD Experiments at Stanford University Medical Center — XI

12. Conclusion of Series: The Yin Informing the Yang in the Stanford University Medical Center OD Experiments (Part XII)

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