Quote Originally Posted by cornell
I'm leading an (as yet) informal effort to get my organization (a large state university) to adopt GTD, and I'd really like to hear suggestions, stories, etc. from anyone who's tried this in any kind of large organization. I'm interested in pilot programs, training efforts and ideas, grassroots efforts, etc.
GTD relies on getting things out of your head and into the system that you can trust. The first thing you need to do is find such a system. It's hard to recommend one without knowing your organization's goals and day-to-day operational challenges. How many persons involved? Seems like it would be next to impossible to tackle this from top down in a "large state university," because individual groups may have drastically different setups. So recruit some allies, start meeting once a week, advertise the group's meeting on the bulltein boards. Then pick a pilot organizational unit or two and start from there, keeping the ultimate goal of implementing GTD organization-wide in the end.

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