Network meetings will be scheduled and organized twice a year by the Texas Center and will include site visits to an innovative, high performing business or work site (new design  and re-design) of a member, whenever possible, or a visit to another innovative organization. Specifically, the following  structure is utilized for the present four Networks:

1. Two innovation meetings per year (Spring and Fall - new organizational design [green-field site] and redesign [brown-field site]).

2. Meetings will begin at 1 p.m. on the first day with an orientation for all attending, followed in the evening by a reception and dinner hosted by the Texas Center with member updates.

3. Business, site or plant visits will be on the morning of the second day through a working lunch at the site.

4. Visit debriefing and host critique on the afternoon of the second day.

5. A Present State Assessment of the host site is performed by Network Members. Issue discussions, presentations, etc., will start early the third morning and end at Noon.

6. These discussions will end so that planning can take place prior to completion of the meeting at Noon on the third day.

7. Membership is limited to approximately thirty (30) managers per Network.

Managers Network Mechanics

Designing, planning, scheduling, and local arrangements will be handled by the Texas Center. Usual conference costs are covered by payment of the annual membership fee by each member. Travel and lodging costs are on a "Dutch treat" basis. Each Network meeting will last two and one-half days.
Members will be solicited for their ideas, preferences, and topic agenda. Additional resources (for example, special commissioned reports and papers) will be secured at the direction of members, the cost to be shared by the entire membership.

The annual Managers Network membership fee will include:

1. The cost of organizing and holding two (2) Managers Network meetings per year, excluding usual membership lodging, meals, etc.

2. Hosted reception and dinner the initial evening of each Managers Network conference and a hosted reception on the second evening.

3. Periodic work innovation and Continuous Work Improvement mailings, cases, and organizational innovation videos.

4. Suggested work innovation and organizational change readings (currently we have over 170,000 pages of innovative readings in our library).

5. Site visit reports, called Texas Center "Meta-Cases" (currently we have over 120 actual "Cases" in our library). Each case ranges from 50 to 500 pages in length.

Managers Network Facilitators

The primary facilitator for the Managers Networks is Dr. Barry A. Macy, Director of the Texas Center for Innovative Organizations and Professor of Organizational Design, Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University. Periodically, other Texas Center staff members and affiliated associates act as facilitators (See Bio-Sketches for more information about facilitators).