Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens at Weatherhead School of Management

Participants

	Nancy Adler McGill University Nancy Adler is a Professor of International Management at the Faculty of Management, McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She received her B.A. in economics, M.B.A. and Ph.D. in management from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Adler conducts research and consults on global leadership, cross-cultural management, and women as global managers and leaders. She has authored over 100 articles, produced the film, A Portable Life, and published the books, International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior (4th edition, 2002), Women in Management Worldwide, and Competitive Frontiers: Women Managers in a Global Economy. Her newest book is From Boston to Beijing: Managing with a Worldview. Dr. Adler consults to private corporations and government organizations on projects in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and the Middle East. To contact Nancy, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Zaheeruddin Asif Temple University Mr. Asif is currently pursuing his PhD in Management Information Systems at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania under the able guidance of Heinz K. Klein. His research interests include societal aspects of ICTs, especially their interaction with the public sphere. Zaheeruddin Asif holds an MBA in Management Information Systems and a Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis and Design from Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Karachi, Pakistan. He worked for IBM and Toyota before joining IBA, where he lectured on IS management and database administration. There he conducted research for various government agencies including Central Board of Revenue, Export Promotion Bureau, Pakistan Software Export Board, and Pakistan Ordinance Factories. To contact Zaheer, please e-mail.

	Michel Avital Case Western Reserve University Michel Avital seeks to open and strengthen positive discourse in information systems scholarship that both challenges and complements the problem-driven view inherent in current information systems research and methodologies. Michel has a keen interest in information environments and technologies that promote and encourage respect for human values, self-growth, interpersonal relationships, organizational ownership, and collaborative action. Overall, his research has combined both soft and hard methods to explore information systems design, social and organizational networks, ubiquitous computing, technological generativity and generative fit, knowledge management and appreciative inquiry. Currently, Michel teaches courses on e-business, systems analysis and design, and doctorate-level courses on research methodologies. Michel Avital is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Department at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. For further information, visit http://avital.case.edu or contact Michel at e-mail.

Position Statement	Frank J. Barrett Naval Postgraduate School Frank J. Barrett, PhD is Associate Professor of Systems Management at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California where is also Director of the Center for Positive Change. He also serves on the faculty of Human and Organizational Development at Fielding Graduate University. He received his BA in Government and International Relations from the University of Notre Dame, his MA in English from the University of Notre Dame, and his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University. He has taught courses in Management, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory, Group Dynamics and Leadership, Organizational Design, Organizational Development, and Organizational Change. To contact Frank, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Jon W. Beard Purdue University I am currently a Visiting Associate Professor in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. I have a Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior, a Masters Degree in Computer Science, and a Bachelors Degree in Architectural Studies, stimulating an interdisciplinary perspective on design that is incorporated in my research and teaching. Fundamentally, I am interested in the design of technology and work environments. We design (both consciously and unconsciously) our tasks, our jobs, and our organizations. And we create technology to augment our efforts. How do these "designs" contribute to and facilitate our performance? In this seminar I hope to offer my interdisciplinary background and perspective on design and to explore its implications on IT, individuals, and organizations. To contact Jon, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Suresh Bhavnani University of Michigan Suresh Bhavnani is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He received an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in computational design (College of Fine Arts) and human-computer interaction (School of Computer Science) from Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on: (1) analyzing the difficulties that users have in acquiring strategic knowledge to use complex information systems, (2) systematically identifying effective and efficient strategies to use such systems, and (3) developing computational and educational methods to provide strategic knowledge to users. He identified a framework of general strategies to use a wide range of authoring applications, and designed strategy-based instruction to teach those strategies to students in several universities. His current research in information seeking explores a framework of general strategies that exploit emergent regularities of information on the web (e.g. information scatter and link specialization). He is also developing online search and training tools, and computational models to characterize the scatter of information on the web. The larger goal of his research is to develop a unified theory about the emergence and structure of strategic knowledge to use complex information systems. To contact Suresh, please e-mail.

	Richard Boland Case Western Reserve University Dick Boland's research since 1975 has concerned the study of designing and using information systems. His work shows that the way designers punctuate their interaction with a user group fundamentally shapes the resulting designs as to the form of organizational control they imply. He has also been involved in the design of systems that enable self reflection and dialogue among individuals as the build a community of knowing. Now he is committed to the development of systems that strengthen the capacity for critical thought among children from grades 4 through 12, with the intention of fostering a more viable democratic society. To contact Dick, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Geoffrey C. Bowker Santa Clara University Geoffrey C. Bowker is Executive Director, Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University. He was previously Professor in and Chair of the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego. His PhD is in History and Philosophy of Science at Melbourne University. He studies social and organizational aspects of the development of very large scale information infrastructures. He has written with Leigh Star a book on the history and sociology of medical classifications (Sorting Things Out: Classification and Practice - published by MIT Press in September 1999). This book looks at the classification of nursing work, diseases, viruses and race. His next book, entitled Memory Practices in the Sciences about formal and informal recordkeeping in science over the past two hundred years, which includes extensive discussion of biodiversity informatics, will be published by MIT Press in 2005. He was 2002-2003 member of an OECD working group on international data sharing in science.To contact Geoff, please e-mail.

Position Statement	JoAnn Brooks The MITRE Corporation JoAnn Brooks' background combines information technology (MS in CS, eight years designing and developing software) and organizational studies (recent PhD from University of Michigan). Her research focuses on organizational practices that involve information or communication technology and their relationship to culture. She is beginning a three year program of research which will explore applying a positive lens approach to the design of enterprise systems for large government agencies. She looks forward to interacting with other researchers and scholars at the workshop, sharing what she knows about government enterprises, information and organization design, and learning from others about their experiences with positive lens approaches. She is especially interested in contributing to the development of an ongoing community of practice concerned with these issues. To contact JoAnn, please e-mail.

	Richard Buchanan Carnegie Mellon University Richard Buchanan is Professor of Design and former Head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is also Director of Doctoral Studies and Director of the Center for Design and Organizational Change. He is an editor of Design Issues, an international journal of design history, theory, and criticism published by the M.I.T. Press. He is also President of the Design Research Society, an international learned society based in the United Kingdom. Professor Buchanan received his A.B. and Ph.D. from the Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods at the University of Chicago. I would like to share my experience of designing a large information system for the United States Postal Service, where the explicit goal was a positive change in the organization for customers and employees. The working approach was based on concepts and methods of interaction design, user-centered design, and participatory design, with a significant component of formative user research. What I hope to accomplish in the workshop is help build a bridge that connects management, organizational change, and new thinking in the area of human interaction and information design. I also want to learn more about "appreciative inquiry" and its potential for application in design research. To contact Richard, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Brian Butler University of Pittsburgh Brian is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Katz Graduate School of Business at University of Pittsburgh, PA. His research focuses on explaining how organizations and individuals are able to simultaneously accomplish multiple, often conflicting goals, in fundamentally complex socio-technical environments. This has lead him to study phenomena such as the design and development of online communities, the role of power and politics in the use and management of IT in organizations, design theories of rhetorical communication, and the importance of individual and collective mindfulness in the design and application of information systems. To contact Brian, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Lance Carlson Alberta College of Art & Design Lance Carlson has been President & CEO of the Alberta College of Art & Design (ACAD) in Canada since August 2004. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, CalArts, Art Center College of Design, and other art & design programs. He holds graduate degrees in both cultural studies/sociology and design. For the last fifteen years, he has published art criticism and cultural commentary, including attention to the rapid changes in design thinking. His interest is in the redefinition of design as a field of inquiry and practice, especially with regard to how an art & design college such as ACAD can embrace and animate a definition of design having more to do with human systems (especially as applied to business, organizations, and communities) than aesthetically-based theory and practice. His intention in this workshop is to share recent developments in design practice as applied to systems and to better understand what interests and management/design approaches exist within business in non-arts environments. To contact Lance, please e-mail.

Position Statement	John M. Carroll Pennsylvania State University John M. Carroll is Edward Frymoyer Chair Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to networking tools for collaborative learning and problem solving, and the design of interactive information systems. He has written or edited 14 books, including Making Use (MIT Press, 2000), HCI in the New Millennium (Addison-Wesley, 2001), Usability Engineering (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2002, with M.B. Rosson) and HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2003). He serves on 9 editorial boards for journals, handbooks, and series; he is a member of the US National Research Council's Committee on Human Factors and Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions. He received the Rigo Award and the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from ACM, the Silver Core Award from IFIP, the Alfred N. Goldsmith Award from IEEE. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow. To contact John, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Dong-Sung Cho Seoul National University Dong-Sung Cho is Professor of Strategy, International Business and Management Design at Seoul National University. He received a doctoral degree from Harvard Business School in 1976, and worked at Gulf Oil’s Planning Group before joining SNU in 1978. He was a visiting professor at HBS, INSEAD, Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, University of Michigan, Duke, and Peking University. Among the 42 books he published are The General Trading Company by Lexington Books (1986), Tiger Technology: the Rise of the Semiconductor Industry in Asia by Cambridge University Press (1999), and From Adam Smith to Michael Porter: Evolution of Competitiveness Theory by World Scientific (2000). He was Dean of the College of Business Administration, SNU, 2001-2003, and Dean of the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, SNU, 1999-2001. He has been on the Board of Directors at 15 multinational companies and research organizations. He is Chair of the Advisory Board at Seoul School of Integrated Sciences and Technologies (aSSIST), which is the first independent, and globally oriented business school in Korea. He is Honorary Consul General of the Government of Finland in Korea. He is President of Korean Academic Society of Business Administration, which is the flagship organization in Korea representing 34 functionally-oriented academic societies in business administration. To contact Dong-Sung, please e-mail.

	Fred Collopy Case Western Reserve Uninversity I'm a Professor and Chair of the department of Information Systems in Weatherhead School of Management. My research has included the development of expert systems to do business forecasting, objective setting in organizations and time perception in computer users. I am currently working on issues in interface and instrument design and on the idea of managing as designing.To contact Fred, please e-mail.

	David Cooperrider Case Western Reserve University David Cooperrider is a Professor and Chair of the department of Organizational Behavior in Weatherhead School of Management. David is also the faculty advisor of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. His research interests include positive (non-deficit) theories of organization development and change, positive psychology, organizational designs and social innovations in global change; appreciative approaches inquiry, theory building, and social construction. To contact David, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Deborah Dougherty Rutgers University After working in the trenches of large bureaucracies for ten years, I received my Ph.D. in Management from M.I.T. Before joining Rutgers, I have held academic positions at the Wharton School and McGill University. My scholarship concerns organizing for sustained innovation in complex organizations; new product development; innovation in services; and knowledge management. I have recently launched a new study of all this in the bio-pharmaceutical sector (which is headed for a train wreck), focusing on drug discovery and development. By attending the conference, I hope to learn more about designing organizations for effective work and the role of a positive lens in that endeavor, learn more about organization development and why it receives little serious academic attention, and learn how these issues can be advanced. I hope to contribute by arguing for grounding ideas in actual phenomena of work organizations. To contact Deborah, please e-mail.

	Roger Dunbar New York University I'm a Professor of Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University. I'm interested in problem-driven research and particularly in how organizational designs can have generative capacities that enable organizations to develop new options for what they can do. I've also been becoming convinced that widely accepted, theoretical frames oriented towards prediction often block our ability to see the generative, option-building capacities built into many organizations. My research agenda aims to uncover option-building capacities and processes in organizations. To contact Roger, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Jurgen Faust Cleveland Institute of Art Jurgen Faust is currently Dean of Integrated Media, Professor and since six years Chair of Technology and Integrated Media (T.I.M.E.) at The Cleveland Institute of Art. In his Deans role he is responsible for the departments of Communication design, Print Media, Drawing as well as Science and Biomedical Communications. As a practicing artist and designer, he shows widely in Europe and United States and he permanently involved in projects with the industry as well. Over the past years he designed several programs at the Cleveland institute of Art including a graduate study in Digital Arts as well as a Design and Technology Transfer Center. He researches and publishes mainly within the theory of design and creativity and the transfer of these theories into other fields as well as in the area of managing organizations. For many years he has been working on a theory of sculpture which substantiates his thinking in various ways. In 1983, he co founded a private art and design school in Germany (Freie Hochschule Metzingen) where he was the co-director for sixteen years and was responsible for the development of several programs. To contact Jurgen, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Matthew G. Fineout EDGE studio Matthew Fineout holds a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. He is a partner at EDGE studio, a multidisciplinary design firm focusing in Architecture, Graphics and Identity design. Major architectural projects include the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, The Gateway Center Subway Station and the New Hazlett Theater. Prior to joining EDGE Matthew was an Associate at Frank O. Gehry and Associates, where his involvement on significant projects included the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain and The Peter B. Lewis, Weatherhead School of Management, CWRU among others. Matthew's interests are in the design process and the ability to maintain an open position throughout that is inclusive rather than exclusive and how by extension the built project can embody this quality to foster an environment open to opportunities as opposed to a limited set of functions. To contact Matthew, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Raghu Garud Pennsylvania State University Raghu Garud is Professor of Management at Smeal School of Business, Penn State University and is Research Director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He is co-editor of Organization Studies and an Associate Editor of Management Science. Currently, Raghu is co-editing (with Cynthia Hardy and Steve Maguire) a special issue on "Institutional Entrepreneurship" to appear in Organization Studies. Raghu was previously at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He has been visiting professor at Cambridge, University of St. Gallen and Copenhagen Business School. In his writing, Raghu has explored: breakthroughs, knowledge management, new organizational forms, path-creation, economies of substitution, researcher persistence, and technology entrepreneurship. His articles have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Research Policy, MISQ and other leading journals. Raghu has co-edited or co-authored the following books: Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights, Cambridge University Press, Path dependence and path creation, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Cognition, Knowledge and Organization, JAI Press, The Innovation Journey Oxford University Press, Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks and Organizations, Blackwell. To contact Raghu, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Darren Good Case Western Reserve University Darren Good is currently working toward his PhD in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. He received his M.A. in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University and his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Darren focuses his research in the areas of mindfulness, attentional processing, interpersonal trust, personal values, and interorganizational collaboration. Darren worked previously in New York as an advertising executive for Saatchi & Saatchi, BCom3, and True North Communications. To contact Darren, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Don de Guerre Concordia University After a distinguished international career as a consultant and manager working in the private, public service, and non-profit sectors, Dr. de Guerre is now a faculty member in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University in Montreal. He teaches graduates and undergraduates in the domains of human systems intervention and action research, consulting process and skills, organizational leadership and small group development. He is contributing to action research as a new paradigm for knowledge creation from practice. His scholarship interests are the development of participative governance and organization and the further development of open systems theory. He is a Director of The Fred Emery Institute, an Associate of the Alliance for Capitalizing on Change, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance, University of Ottawa, and a Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Research and Education in Human Systems. In this workshop, Dr. de Guerre looks forward to exploring ways in which open systems theory and appreciative inquiry can strengthen each other towards a positive organizational science and practice. To contact Don, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Wendy Jansen University of Amsterdam For many years I have been involved in research on design issues. All the research and the models I have developed were generic, mechanistic and context-free, in short modernistic. At the same time I realised more and more, in my contact with people in the organizations I worked for as a consultant, that most of the implementation of these generic models met with serious problems. I started to question the fundamental conceptions of my own thinking, but also the role conceptions of those involved in design issues, play. I began with Hans and Rombout (my co-authors) to research the way we can in a positive way apply the conceptions of those involved, to help improve the design process. In this workshop I would like to discuss the positive role conceptions/paradigm's can play. We are researching approaches to organise the discourse on conceptions in concrete design projects. I would like to share our experiences with you, the other participants, and to discuss the approaches you have developed and/or applied in practice. To contact Don, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Finn Kensing The IT University of Copenhagen Since the late 70's I have been involved in interdisciplinary research programs working closely with IT-professionals, managers, and workers in public and private organizations. Currently I am heading a group of 15 senior researchers and Ph. D. students from 3 Danish universities. For about a year we have been conducting research on IT and healthcare focusing on communication and cooperation among healthcare professionals and between them and the citizens/patients. The heterogeneity and the distributed nature of healthcare work challenge how we as researchers study, understand, and intervene in this sector. Further, the distributed nature of IT-design, development, and implementation for this sector is a severe challenge for managers and IT-professionals. And finally, healthcare professionals and citizens/patients are still waiting for IT-solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare. At the workshop I hope to discuss and learn about appropriate strategies for conducting research and for IT-projects in environments that transcend traditional organizational boundaries. Research Areas: Participatory Design, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Systems. To contact Finn, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Heinz Klein SUNY Binghamton Heinz K. Klein earned his Ph.D. at the University of Munich Binghamton and holds an honorary doctorate of the University of Oulu in Finland. He is Associate Professor em. in the School of Management at the State University of New York at Binghamton and invited Leverhulme Professor at Salford University, UK. Best known for his contributions to the philosophical foundations of IS research, Heinz has published widely in the best IS journals and conference proceedings. His preferred topics include alternative methods and approaches to information systems development, the theory of emergent organizations and, most recently, interpretive studies of group collaboration. He is serving on the Editorial Boards of Information Systems Journal, Information Technology & People, AE of the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) and the Wiley Series in Information Systems.. Heinz has presented at ICIS on numerous occasions. To contact Heinz, please e-mail.

	Chris Laszlo Sustainable Value Partners Chris Laszlo is a partner and cofounder of Sustainable Value Partners, Inc., (www.SustainableValuePartners.com) a firm helping companies create value for shareholders and stakeholders. For nearly ten years, he was an executive at Lafarge S.A., a world leader in building materials, holding positions as head of strategy, general manager of a manufacturing subsidiary, and vice president of business development. Prior to that he spent 5 years with Deloitte & Touche, where he consulted to global industry leaders. Educated at Swarthmore, Columbia, and the University of Paris, Laszlo earned a Ph.D. in Economics and Management Science. He currently lectures on Sustainable Value at the European business school INSEAD in the Advanced Management Seminar and CEDEP Executive Education programmes. His new book is The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance, Island Press, October 2003. To contact Frank, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Paul Leonardi Stanford University Paul Leonardi is a doctoral student at the Center for Work, Technology and Organization in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. His research examines cultural influences on the design and implementation of technology in organizational contexts, international technology management, and organizational communication. Specifically, he explores the social construction of technology as a process beginning with the design of a new technology and extending through its implementation and eventual closure in a recipient organization. By focusing on the social processes occurring on either side of the "implementation line" he hopes to understand how new technologies and the organizations they support can be aligned to achieve positive organizational change. To contact Paul, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Natalia Levina New York University I am an Assistant Professor at the New York University's Stern School of Business, Information Systems group. I would like to share my ideas and to learn from others about what enables organizationally, professionally, and culturally diverse design teams to draw on the strengths of their diversity rather than focus on the conflicts that diversity creates. I hope to discuss whether collaborative settings with a balanced distribution of intellectual influences should be viewed more positively than non-collaborative settings with unequal distribution of intellectual influences over the design. Finally, in the world in which the design efforts are increasingly carried by globally distributed teams, I would like to learn more about the role of cultural differences in producing design. To contact Natalia, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Jessica Lipnack NetAge, Inc. We've been known for (too) many years as "the networking people," and that is the perspective we can contribute to this conversation. We'll bring the best of the tried and true ideas together along with some very new thinking and research about networked organizations and their evolution in a virtual world. Since reality is inherently cross-disciplinary, the connections among our pools of expertise are essential, and we look forward to our collaborative accomplishment. To contact Jessica, please e-mail.

	Kalle Lyytinen Case Western Reserve University Kalle Lyytinen is Iris S. Wolstein professor Case Western Reserve University. He serves currently on the editorial boards of several leading IS journals including, Journal of AIS ( Editor-in-Chief), Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information&Organization, Requirements Engineering Journal, Information Systems Journal, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, and Information Technology and People among others. He is AIS fellow (2004), and the former chairperson of IFIP 8.2. He has published over 150 scientific articles and conference papers and edited or written ten books on topics related to system design, method engineering, implementation, software risk assessment, computer supported cooperative work, standardization, and ubiquitous computing. He is currently involved in research projects that look at the IT induced innovation in software development, architecture and construction industry, design and use of ubiquitous applications in health care, high level requirements model for large scale systems, and the development and adoption of broadband wireless standards and services, where his recent studies have focused on U.K., South Korea and the U.S. To contact Kalle, please e-mail.

Position Statement	M. Lynne Markus Bentley College I am the John W. Poduska, Sr. Chair of Information Management at Bentley College and a graduate of the Ph.D. program in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University, where I pursued my interests in organization design and sociotechnical systems theory in the context of management information systems. I have published in the areas of IS design theory (Markus, M. Lynne, Ann Majchrzak, and Les Gasser. 2002. A Design Theory For Systems That Support Emergent Knowledge Processes, MIS Quarterly, 26, 3: 179-213) and on participation in the design of information systems (Markus, M. Lynne, and Ji-Ye Mao. 2004. Participation in Development and Implementation: Updating a Tired, Old Concept for Today's IS Contexts, Journal of the AIS, 5, 11-12). At the workshop, I hope to engage in a dialog about my current area of research and practice: the collaborative design of better IT-enabled interorganizational relationships. To contact Lynne, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Steve Meador U.S. Department of Energy Steve Meador's career is defined by 25 years of progressive and creative management and integration of engineering and scientific projects and programs spanning community, state, federal and international settings. For the past 3 years, he has worked in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science where his major responsibility is to conduct independent peer reviews of large scientific programs and projects. Mr. Meador is a Registered Professional Engineer, a Certified Cost Engineer and a Project Management Professional. Mr. Meador recently completed his master's degree in Organizational Learning at George Mason University's School of Public Policy. To contact Steve, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Bernard Mohr Innovation Partners International Bernard is a pioneer in the field of Appreciative Inquiry, specializing in the creation of cultures, structures and systems that are economically sustainable and worthy of commitment from their employees and communities. A frequent keynote speaker who has written four books and numerous articles on organizational change, he completed his studies in psychology (Waterloo), organization development (Toronto) and organization design (Columbia). Representative clients include AT&T, British Airways, BP, CBC, Coca Cola, Domtar/Georgia Pacific, Exxon, GlaxoSmithKline, Hannaford/Delhaize, Internal Revenue Service, LL Bean, National Defense/Canada, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Novo Nordisk, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre and the University of Maine System. A member of the Taos Institute advisory board and a senior faculty in Complex Systems Change at NTL Institute, he has also taught at the Universities of Ottawa, Concordia, Dayton and Cornell, as well as the Canadian Centre For Management Development, and the Danish Center for Management. To contact Bernard, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Eric H. Neilsen Case Western Reserve University My interests in studying organization design through a positive lens are twofold: 1) to create a conceptualization of the positive organization that clearly articulates its relationship to traditional bureaucracy, 2) to explore how attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969) can be used to inform discussions of the use of positive psychology in organization design. To contact Eric, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Tom Nickel University of the West Tom Nickel is a professor of Instructor Technology and Director of Extended Studies at University of the West. Established in 1990 by Fo Guang Shan, one of the largest Buddhist organizations in the world, the university provides formal academic studies in a context informed by Buddhist wisdom and values. Operating at the intersection of east and west, monastic and secular, Tom is deeply committed to the interaction of diverse cultures and is an experienced practitioner and loving critic of the role in technology in international education. He has taught in China, travelled extensively in Asia and has lead numerous collaborative projects involving students in the US and East Asia. His research in instructional design has focused on techniques for engaging students in online learning activities. To contact Tom, please e-mail.

	Malcolm Odell Appreciative Inquiry Consulting Mac Odell (PhD) has served as project manager and technical advisor for organization development, conservation, applied research, evaluation, planning, and community mobilization programs in Asia, Africa, the US and Europe. His 'short, sweet' "Appreciative Planning and Action" approach is now being used by numerous US and international organizations including NIH/NIAID, The Mountain Institute, Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, International Rescue Committee, and Pact/WORTH programs in, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and other Asia-Pacific and African countries, including least 150,000 women as part of the battle against HIV/AIDS. He is particularly interested in designing information and organizations with a positive lens specifically to examine the potential role of businesses in the peace building process, particularly in the developing world, including harnessing the power of youth -- re-channelling anger and frustration into a source for positive change. To contact Mac, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Rombout van den Nieuwenhof Zeno Consulting To design with a positive lens, means to me the use of OD-approaches, discursive approaches, AI, chaos theory, and the like. I like very much to deepen these tools, to understand the dynamics better and to try to make them of better use for complex organizational change processes. Me myself, I'am mostly interested in discursive and dialogical processes, and wrote my PhD-thesis on this subject. I combined organizational theory, change management with a psychological and dialogical approach of change. I work in Holland as a coach, consultant and trainer, and am a teacher in several post-graduated courses. To contact Rombout, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Brian T. Pentland Michigan State University My father was an engineer, and I'm a former mechanical engineer and computer programmer. I feel like I've always had an appreciation for the importance and difficulty of good design. By design, I mean 800-ton punch presses, not just pretty little iPods. Recently, the Boland and Callopy book got me thinking about how I might incorporate a design perspective in my work on organizational routines. As a result, my thinking on design has broadened to include patterns of interaction in organizations: bigger and more powerful than any punch press, I think, but a lot harder to understand. I am actively writing on these topics, and this workshop seems like an ideal place to share my ideas and learn some new ones. I am grateful for the opportunity to attend. To contact Brian, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Neil C. Ramiller Portland State University Neil Ramiller is Ahlbrandt Professor in the Management of Innovation & Technology at the School of Business Administration, Portland State University, where he is also Area Director for Information Systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the Anderson School at UCLA, as well as an MBA from U.C. Berkeley, and undergraduate degrees in anthropology and chemistry from Sonoma State University. His primary research activities address the management of information-technology innovations, with a focus on the role that rhetoric, narrative, and discourse play in shaping innovation processes within organizations and across interorganizational fields. He also conducts work on the social construction of information technology scholarship, and the implementation of the "linguistic turn" in information technology studies. He has presented his work at a variety of national and international conferences, and published articles in a number of journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information & Organization, Information Technology & People, Organization Science, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the AIS, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Information Technology Theory & Applications, the International Journal of Medical Informatics, and the Journal of Information Systems Education. He is a member of the editorial board for Information Technology & People, and will shortly begin service as an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly. To contact Neil, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Julie Rennecker Case Western Reserve University Julie Rennecker is an assistant professor in the Information Systems Department of the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. She holds a PhD in Organizational Studies from MIT. Her current research investigates the interplay between material and virtual contexts in distributed collaborative work arrangements. She is particularly interested in the unanticipated influences that material contexts have on technology-mediated ones, and vice versa. To contact Julie, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Will Rifkin University of New South Wales An engineer trapped in the body of a sociologist, I come to this workshop thinking as much like a designer as like a theorist. I have published ethnographic pieces on individual and organizational learning, emotion in organizations, and communication between technical and nontechnical people, and I particularly enjoy helping to design systems and establish relationships tailored for a steelmaking plant or a government office. Crossing disciplinary boundaries has become a habit, which makes this workshop appealing. I have taught science to arts students, communication to science students, and ethics to business students. My degrees are from MIT, U.C.-Berkeley, and Stanford. I was affiliated with the Institute for Research on Learning in the early 1990s and came to Oz eleven years ago, lecturing first in management and now serving as Director of the Science Communication Program at UNSW. In this workshop, I seek resonances in perspective and complementary interests and abilities that can lead to creative and revealing collaborations. To contact Will, please e-mail.

	Daniel Robey Georgia State University Daniel Robey is Professor and John B. Zellars Chair of Information Systems at Georgia State University, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Computer Information Systems and Management. He teaches courses on Qualitative Research Methods in Information Systems and Information Technology and Organizational Transformation. He earned his doctorate in Administrative Science in 1973 from Kent State University. Professor Robey is Editor-in-Chief of Information and Organization and serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Information Technology & People, and the John Wiley series on Information Systems. Professor Robey is the author of three books and numerous articles in such journals as Management Science, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Management Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Information Technology & People, and Decision Sciences. His current research includes empirical examinations of the effects of a wide range of technologies on organizational structure and patterns of work. It also includes the development of theoretical approaches to explaining the development and consequences of information technology in organizations. To contact Daniel, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Linda Robson Case Western Reserve University Linda Robson, M.A., is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. She holds a masters degree in medical anthropology and public health from New Mexico State University. Linda's work and research focuses on issues of sustainability and inter-organizational collaboration. She has worked with cultural, educational, and civic organizations developing and studying collaborations within and across organizations, particularly as the collaboration is involved with sustainability practice. The Design with a Positive Lens workshop will allow an exploration of how intention in design best succeeds, how organizational design is changing to reflect a changing world. To contact Linda, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Judy Rodgers Case Western Reserve University Judy Rodgers is Executive Director for the Center for Business as Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. She is also a consultant and communication strategist who has worked extensively with thought leaders to produce organizational transformation and to support social innovation. The emphasis in her work is on Appreciative Inquiry and the power of narrative and dialogue for individual, community-wide and system-wide change. For the past twenty years she has worked with thought leaders such as Tom Peters, Peter Senge, and Walter Cronkite, as well as with organizations and networks as various as Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and a grass-roots citizens group in Buenos Aires, Argentina. To contact Judy, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Georges Romme Eindhoven University of Technology Georges Romme is professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is also an international fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management, UK. Georges is currently involved in several projects in the emerging "science of design" approach to management research. He is co-editing (with Sam Jelinek and Dick Boland) a special issue on "Organization Studies as a Science of Design", to appear in Organization Studies. Georges was previously at Tilburg University and Maastricht University. His writings have explored design methodology, organization design, organizational learning, educational change and innovation management. Georges has published in Organization Science, Organization Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and other leading journals. To contact Georges, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Carol Saunders University of Central Florida Carol Saunders is Professor of MIS at the University of Central Florida. She is Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly. Her current research interests are interdisciplinary and include the organizational impacts of information technology, virtual teams, virtual workers, time, and interorganizational linkages. Her coauthors on the workshop paper are Peggy Dwyer and Susan Hansen who hale from the Accounting and Political Science disciplines, respectively. Peggy, Susan and Carol's recent critical review of the Supplemental-Work-at-Home literature revealed some deep societal impacts of information technology use, in particular the primacy of work life over home life. At the workshop Carol would like to address positive ways of changing the unquestioned application of this assumption in order to create healthier organizations and societies. To contact Carol, please e-mail.

	Ken Shepard Canadian Centre for Leadership and Strategy, and Global Organization Design Society Ken specializes strategy formulation and implementation, organizational design and installing effective accountability structures and management practices. Ken's practice is largely based on Requisite Organization concepts developed by Elliott Jaques complemented by state-of-the-art organization development processes. Ken met Dr. Jaques in l979, brought him to Toronto in l992 and designed, staffed, and produced over 3500 participant days of Requisite workshops with Dr. Jaques benefiting from a close working relationship with him and advice on major consulting projects. Now, following Jaques's death, Ken is the Founding President of the Global Organization Design Society, a world-wide professional association of academics, business users, and consultants practicing the application of RO concepts. The Society held its first Biennial world conference August, 2005 in Toronto attended by 140 invitees from 11 countries. Ken's current interest is supporting the Society in developing positive processes for effective implementation of RO concepts.To contact Ken, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Tony Silbert Innovation Partners International Tony has over 18 years of experience in organizational development, change leadership consulting, training design and delivery. His areas of expertise include Appreciative Inquiry for large-scale change, team development, strategic planning, and organization design. He earned his Master of Science degree in organization development from American University/NTL Institute. He is a co-owner of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting and faculty of National Training Laboratories (NTL). Tony was the keynote speaker at the Treasury Board of Canada’s Classification symposium (2003) and the co-project director for the 2nd International Conference on AI (2004). He has been a guest lecturer at George Washington University and has led numerous training sessions on positive approaches to planning and change. Past and current clients include Allstate, Blackbaud, MetroHealth System, Bell Canada Enterprises, American Express, U.S. Agency for International Development, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Mellon Bank, Points of Light Foundation, Social Security Administration, U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Treasury and Department of Health and Human Services. To contact Tony, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Jeffrey Stamps NetAge, Inc. We've been known for (too) many years as "the networking people," and that is the perspective we can contribute to this conversation. We'll bring the best of the tried and true ideas together along with some very new thinking and research about networked organizations and their evolution in a virtual world. Since reality is inherently cross-disciplinary, the connections among our pools of expertise are essential, and we look forward to our collaborative accomplishment. To contact Jeffrey, please e-mail.

	Susan Leigh Star University of Santa Clara Susan Leigh Star ("Leigh") received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, where she studied the sociology of medicine and science. Her first book, Regions of the Mind: The Quest for Scientific Certainty (Stanford) studied the creation and maintenance of scientific facts about the brain, triangulating basic and clinic research. She has written many scientific articles within the sociology of science and information science; the latter often in cooperation with computer scientists. She is known for developing the concept of "boundary object." She has studied museums, biologists, artificial intelligence researchers, nurses and the role of amateurs in field research. Lately, she is the co-author of Sorting things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (with Geoffrey Bowker), from MIT Press. This looks at how large-scale category systems are created, again returning to questions of triangulation of knowledge from different sources. To contact Leigh, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Erik Stolterman Indiana University Erik Stolterman is Professor and Director of the Human Computer Interaction Design Program at the School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington. Stolterman is also Professor at the Department of Informatics, Umea University, Sweden. Stolterman's research is mainly within interaction design, information technology and society, information systems design, philosophy of design, and philosophy of technology. Two of his latest books are "Thoughtful Interaction Design" (2004), with MIT Press and "The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World - Foundations and Fundamentals of Design Competence" (2003). To contact Erik, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Dan Stone University of Kentucky My primary scholarly interest is the meaning of money to people, and the implications of this "relationship" for human happiness, organizational functioning, and society. The scholarly literature exploring money spans economics, psychology, sociology, management, marketing, accounting, and organizational behavior. The bulk of this work articulates money either as a dysfunctional attitude and goal (e.g., in psychology and sociology), or, as the ultimate measure of human happiness and societal outcomes (e.g., in economics). A multi-disciplinary "positive lens" conference offers great possibilities for wresting money from its current "dismal science" academic moorings. To contact Dan, please e-mail.

	Dov Teeni Tel Aviv University Dov studies several related areas of information systems: human-computer interaction, computer support for communication, knowledge management, and system design methodologies. His research usually combines model building, laboratory experiments and development of prototypes such as Spider and kMail. He is also interested in non-profit organizations. Dov Te'eni is Professor of Information Systems at Tel-Aviv University. He is also the chairman of Meital - the center for coordinating E-learning in Israel's Higher Education. Dov serves as Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly and as editorial-board member of Journal of AIS, Information and Organizations, and Internet Research. He has published in journals such as Management Science, MISQ, Organization Science, Communications of the ACM, and in more specific journals of HCI such as IJHCS, Behaviour and Information Technology, Computers in Human Behavior and IEEE Transactions. He is conference co-chair of ICIS2008 (International Conference on Information Systems) to be held in Paris. He is also co-author of a new book on human-computer interaction for organizations to be published in 2006 by Wiley. To contact Dov, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Tojo Thatchenkery George Mason University Tojo Thatchenkery is an Associate Professor of Organizational Learning at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. His most recent book (2005), Appreciative Sharing for Knowledge: Leveraging Knowledge Management for Strategic Change, introduces a brand new methodology to leverage tacit knowledge in organizations. Tojo has over 30 refereed publications on topics such as postmodern management, organizational learning, knowledge management, and organizational diversity. His current research interests include Information Communication Technology (ICT) and economic development of South Asian countries, social capital and organizational mobility of Asian Americans, and appreciative inquiry and hermeneutics as methodologies for understanding organizational change. Tojo's two upcoming books are Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn (co-authored, Berrett-Koehler Publishers) and Information Communication Technology and Development: Lessons from the Indian Experience (co-edited, Edward Elgar Publishing). Co-presenter Steve Meador and Tojo are looking forward to share their ideas about appreciative design imperatives using a "case-study" and seek reactions from participants supporting and challenging their views. To contact Tojo, please e-mail.

Position Statement	John Venable Curtin University of Technology I am currently Associate Professor and Head of the School of IS, Curtin University of Technology, in Perth, Western Australia. I completed a BS at the US Air Force Academy and two Masters degrees and my PhD at Binghamton University (under Heinz Klein). I have taught and researched in IS for 23 years in the USA, Denmark, New Zealand, and Australia, for the last 8 years. My main research interests are in IS modeling and development methods, digital libraries, GSS, organizational change, problem solving methods, and IS research methods. At this workshop, I hope learn a lot about designing with a positive lens, to share and get feedback on an approach to analyzing problems and developing solutions to them, which I believe is well-suited to the idea of the use of a positive lens, and to meet and develop associations with people committed to constructive, emancipative problem solving. To contact John, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Diana Whitney Corporation for Positive Change Dr. Diana Whitney, President of Corporation for Positive Change and Founder of the Taos Institute, is an internationally recognized consultant, speaker, and thought leader on the subjects of Appreciative Inquiry, positive change, and spirituality at work. She is the author of ten books and dozens of articles, and chapters including Appreciative Inquiry (with David Cooperrider), and The Power of Appreciative Inquiry with Amanda Trosten-Bloom. In addition, she has edited three collections on Appreciative Inquiry including: Appreciative Inquiry and Organization Transformation, and Appreciative Inquiry: Rethinking Human Organization Toward a Positive Theory of Change. Diana teaches and consults in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. She has lectured and taught at Antioch University, Case Western Reserve University, Ashridge Management Institute in London, Eisher Institute in India and others. She currently teaches and advises PhD students as a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Institute and Research Center. The focus of Diana's consulting is large-scale transformation, strategic planning, mergers, and service excellence. Her clients include British Airways, Hunter Douglas, Merck, Unity, The Bishop's School, GTE-Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, and Sandia National Labs. Her work with GTE led to the 1998 Best Organization Change Award by ASTD. Diana serves as a consultant to the United Religions Initiative, a global interfaith organization dedicated to peace and cooperation among diverse religions, faiths, and spiritual traditions. She lives in Taos, New Mexico. To contact Diana, please e-mail.

	Rachel Wilkins Case Western Reserve University Rachel Wilkins is Knowledge and Media Manager of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management. She manages BAWB online programs through the development of web-based communications and online training opportunities, and produces a video series on social responsibility topics called World Inquiry Stories. She has worked in academic and engineering environments developing programming initiatives that have included web design, programming, videography, digital editing, graphic design and server auditing. To contact Rachel, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Herman Wittockx Organisational Behaviour Development and Hubermont Center Herman Wittockx ,Drs studied Psychology (MA) and philosophy (BA) at the Catholic University of Louvain before becoming a researcher at the department of Organizational Psychology. He gained management experience as trainingmanager in Citicorp for three years. Since then he has been working as consultant in various networks interrupted by a sabbatical where he started his PhD. research on the use of nature as a source of learning about organizing. His expertise is in supporting organisation members in finding the balance between continuity and change in various situations (e.g., mergers & acquisitions, globalization, growth, downsizing) and settings (e.g., management teams, Business units, cross departmental projects etc.). His approach is based upon the philosophy of Appreciative Inquiry, a methodology that helps organisations to translate vision into action by doing inquiry in the lifegiving forces of that organisation. In addition to his consulting he is or has been teaching at various business schools; Nyenrode University (Netherlands)., CEDEP (Insead), Leon Kosiminski academy of Entrepreneurship (Poland) Leti Lovanium (ST Petersburg Russia). To contact Herman, please e-mail.

	Eleanor Wynn Intel Corporation Eleanor Wynn works at Intel Corporation in Information Services & Technology Group's Platform Strategic Capability Innovation. She holds a PhD from University of California at Berkeley in Linguistic Anthropology. Her dissertation was supported by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Since that time (1976-present), she has applied social frameworks to computing choices. Prior to Intel she worked at Xerox PARC and BNR; as a consultant, she conducted user and group requirements over 12 years for several F/500 firms including Apple, Nortel, Citicorp, NYNEX and Intel. She has taught Information Systems at both graduate and undergraduate levels. At Intel she experiments with leading edge computing models & applications that support complex dynamic theories of the firm and of social organization. Current interests include ethnographic agent-based modeling, dynamic process visualization, and social network infrastructure for organizational innovation. To contact Eleanor, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Youngjin Yoo Case Western Reserve University I study how knowledge is created and shared among distributed individuals and technology artifacts in organizations. I conducted several controlled laboratory experiments and field studies in this area, primarily focusing on the fact that knowledge in organizations is often distributed among people and tools. Recently, I'v become interested in how wireless technology influences organizational practices and productivity. To contact Youngjin, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Danielle Zandee Case Western Reserve University After years of experience in the field of human resources, corporate training & OD, and management development, I obtained a PhD in Organizational Behavior at Case. Intrigued by the notion that research can inspire new possibilities for constructive thought and action in our social and organized existence, I explored the power of positive discourse, experimented with the relational potential of Appreciative Inquiry, and did a dissertation study in generative process and the art of theorizing. Currently working as a lecturer and independent researcher, I continue to play with the question how we might liberate our mind and find novel approaches to human organizing. I believe that generativity is sparked in the places where diverse domains of thinking and practice meet, and especially in the conversations among people who find ways to traverse between those domains. The positive design conference will be such a unique meeting place and I am looking forward to contribute to the interruptions, confusions, insights, and surprises that will certainly occur. To contact Danielle, please e-mail.

Position Statement	Ping Zhang Syracuse University Coming from a technical background and with several years of experience in developing real world management information systems for different types of organizations, Ping realized the importance of understanding humans and their interaction with technologies in order to fully utilize the great potential of technologies that can truly benefit humans, organizations and societies. Over the past decade, Ping has been conducting research in the broadly defined area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in the organizational and business contexts. Her current research interests include the intellectual development of HCI research; human-centered IT development; user interface design and evaluations that utilize existing theories about humans from other disciplines; affective, cognitive, motivational and behavioral aspects of individual reactions towards IT; and the impact of IT design and use on individuals, organizations, societies and cultures. To contact Ping, please e-mail.