Morgan (1986, 1993) provides a creative and useful approach to understanding and developing organizations still of currency in my view. The various perspectives, conveyed in metaphoric terms, reveals the multi-dimensional possibilities of comprehending organizational life, though their range serves as background to inquiry and to inform participants of various ways (lenses if you prefer) of viewing their organization that delimit and potentially impede the emergence and application of open knowledge.When exercised at the global level, action learning and research that Morgan and others (p ex Argyris et al., 1985) advocate bring focal emphasis to inquiry suited to the emergence and use of open knowledge. But in my view, the action research and systems oriented methodological contributions of the last century,as helpful as they were,will require considerable advance to meet the demands of this century for organizations to operate effectively in the global arena.