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

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October 27, 20005 - Design Scholars, Practitioners to Explore Positive Approaches to Information Systems Development and Organizational Change at Weatherhead School Working Conference

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Design Matters for Management by Richard J. Boland, Jr. and Fred Collopy. An introduction to design thinking. Drawing heavily upon seminal work by Herbert Simon and our experiences with Frank O. Gehry, we call for a design attitude and for the development of a design vocabulary in management.

Advances in Appreciative Inquiry-Constructive Discourse and Human Organization by David L. Cooperrider and Michel Avital. A brief introduction to Appreciative Inquiry.