Nancy Adler

nancy.adler@mcgill.ca
McGill University, CANADA

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.

Hossam Ali Hassan

halihassan@schulich.yorku.ca
York University, CANADA

Hossam Ali-Hassan is a PhD Candidate at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. His research interest is in social computing, social capital, and knowledge management. He is currently studying the newly emerging class of tools known as social computing, and its use by teams in organizations. He is interested in identifying the impact of social computing on social capital among teams and the subsequent benefit to teams and organizations. He is also exploring how social computing can potentially be used for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and knowledge creation in organizations.

Macedonio Alanis

alanis@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Dr. Macedonio Alanís is professor of the department of Management Information Systems at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, in Monterrey, México. Some of his classes are attended, via satellite, by 1200 students in 9 Latin-American countries.  He also works as a consultant of IT strategy for public and private institutions. He has been CIO for the Government of the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico and participated in the definition of Mexico’s IT policies. He has received the Eisenhower Fellowship and has also been named a Remarque Fellow. In 2003 he was elected to occupy one of the two Americas chairs on the board of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

Jaime Alonso

jagomez@itesm.mx
EGADE, MÉXICO

Dr. Gómez is the National Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership (EGADE), Associate Researcher at The USA-Mexico Center for Strategic Studies (both at Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico), and has been Distinguished Visiting Keynote Speaker in International Business for Universities and Institutions in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia (MIT, Harvard, UCLA, McGill, Washington, U. of Texas at Austin, Carnegie Mellon Univ., HEC Paris, ESC Reims, Glasgow, Valencia, Barcelona, Glasgow (Scotland), Univ. de Santiago de Chile, ESAN (Peru), ICESI (Colombia), Getulio Vargas (Brazil), etc. Formerly a corporate executive and project engineer, Dr. Gómez joined Monterrey Institute of Technology in 1982. During Dr. Gomez' leadership, EGADE has been recognized as the top business school in Latin America by America Economía (Chile), among the top business school of the world by Financial Times and The Economist (UK), in the top 20 best business schools by The Wall Street Journal (USA), Top 20 non-USA Business Schools by Business Week (USA), and among the top 50 MBA's in the world by Handelsblatt (Germany).

Xochitl Arias

xochitl.arias-gonzalez@unilim.fr
Université de Limoges, FRANCE

Xochitl ARIAS is currently a temporary Associated Professor at the Centre for Research in Semiotics at the University of Limoges, France. She teaches Corporate Communication, Cultural Analysis Methodology and Mass Media & Culture Sciences.
Convinced that a better world was possible at the age of 16 she joined BUSCA, a Mexican nonprofit organization dedicated to community development and entirely managed by young adults. As a result of this experience, she published BUSCA 1989-1999: Historia de una practica compartida, a manual for creating community social service programs which was sponsored by the Mexican Youth Institute. Ms. Arias’s educational background includes studies in psychology, anthropology and linguistics and a Design & Communication Degree from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana. Her professional experience began in the field of journalism, contributing to national publications such as Milenio Semanal and Milenio Diario and Liberaddictus, a specialized magazine on addiction. After receiving a MA degree from the University of Limoges in Semiotics & Strategy focused on innovation, design and communication, Ms. Arias worked as a consultant for several European research and survey companies in Paris specializing in technical innovation, communication interactions, and user values and representations for clients such as Renault, Airbus, L’Oréal, Givenchy and BDF.
Ms. Arias continued her doctoral research in semiotics, specifically in the area of interaction centered design, object’s modal articulation of functions and gesture forming sense. She has also concentrated on the history of semiotics and design, which she believes are interrelated intertextually and theoretically.

Michel Avital

avital@uva.nl
University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS

Michel Avital is an Associate Professor of Information Management at the University of Amsterdam. Building on positive modalities of inquiry, his research focuses on information and organization with an emphasis on the social aspects of information technologies. He has published articles on topics such as systems design, creativity, innovation, knowledge sharing, social responsibility and appreciative inquiry. Building on his rich experience in entrepreneurial ventures and business development, he believes that relating to people as the core and main driving force of any project and system is not only an ethical choice, but also a practical approach to the study and design of human systems and information technologies.

Edgardo Ayala

edgardo@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Edgardo Arturo Ayala Gaytán, specialized on economic growth and development area, has a vast experience on Applied Microeconomics, especially on areas such as company’s valuation, social or private project evaluations, sectorial studies and market research. Besides being an associate professor at Tec de Monterrey, he has also been teaching at Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) and at the Faculty of Economics in Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL). Professor Ayala has managed the Study Program, Mexico-United States-Canada, from the Strategic Studies Center, at Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, and the Economic Research Center at UANL. Today, he is an Associate Dean of the Administration and Finance Division at Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey. Some important achievements of professor Ayala include more than ten publications, participation as co-author in two books regarding the economic growth and regional development; economic integration of Texas and the Northern of Mexico, among others. In 2005, professor Ayala received the prize for the educational work in the Associate category for being the best professor of the Division of Administration and Finance on the previous year.

Frank Barrett

Fbarrett@nps.edu
Naval Postgraduate School, USA

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.

Richard Boland

boland@case.edu
Case Western Reserve University, USA

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.

Richard Buchanan

buchanan@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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.

Rodolfo Capeto

rcapeto@esdi.uerj.br
ESDI, BRAZIL

Rodolfo Capeto (Niterói, 1956) is a designer who graduated in 1980 from ESDI (Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since 1992 he has also been teaching at ESDI, and is currently the School's director. His main areas of interest and practice are typography, type design and information design, and his work has cut across very diverse areas, from scientific institutions to the cinema. He was one of the pioneers in the use of digital processes in graphic design in Brazil, having developed, already in 1982, a new proprietary vector font format, among other results. A major professional endeavor was the design, in 2001, of a new family of typefaces for the largest Portuguese language dictionary.

John Carroll

jmcarroll@psu.edu
Pennsylvania State University, USA

Dong-Sung Cho

dscho@snu.ac.kr
Seoul National University, KOREA

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.

Fred Collopy

collopy@case.edu
Case Western Reserve University, USA

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.

David Cooperrider

dlc6@case.edu
Case Western Reserve University, USA

Peter Coughlan

pcoughlan@ideo.com
IDEO, USA

Peter Coughlan is a Partner at IDEO, where he leads their Transformation Practice, a group that helps client organizations grow by applying design thinking to organization design and development. Peter has led programs in innovation process design, service excellence, and customer and employee journeys; in domains as diverse as tribal leadership, supply-chain design in the food industry, and healthcare delivery. Some of his clients and collaborators include Kaiser Permanente, Kraft Foods, Procter & Gamble, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Stanford University. Peter has a B.A in English Literature from Trinity College, a Master’s in Education from Boston University, and a Ph.D in Applied Linguistics from UCLA.

Kevin Desouza

kdesouza@u.washington.edu
University of Washington, USA

Jurgen Faust

jfaust2005@gmail.com
Istituto Europeo di Design, ITALY

Irma Firbida

ifirbida@worldbank.org
George Mason University, USA

Irma Firbida holds a Masters in Organizational Development and Knowledge Management from the George Mason University, Virginia, USA.  She has been with the World Bank Group since 1991, and she currently works in the Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness Unit.  She has worked in many capacities in various programs and units of the Human Resources Department, including the Knowledge and Learning Board; Staff Development and Learning; Organizational Effectiveness; Leadership, Client Engagement and Teamwork; Foundations of Team Leadership; and Language and Culture.  Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked in the Human Resources Department for Nestle, Peru. 
Irma’s interests include the Appreciative Inquiry methodology, knowledge management and the development of multi-disciplinary approaches for strategic organizational change and sustainable global development.  In collaboration with Tojo Thatchenkery, she is examining the impact of appreciative intelligence in the design of outstanding projects. 

Gabriele Frankl

gabriele.frankl@uni-klu.ac.at
Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA

Gabriele Frankl received her Master in Media and Communication Studies at the Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt (AAUK) in Austria and is completing her Doctoral Thesis on winning scenarios, especially in the area of Knowledge Management. Currently she is research assistant at the Institute of Media and Communication Studies and at the eBusiness-Industrial-Foundation-Institute and Head of eLearning at the AAUK. She has extensive practical experience in system development and implementation of Knowledge Management and eLearning, for example in the area of industry. Her main interests are: how to make everybody win – in general, and particularly in Knowledge Management and eLearning - and how to achieve sustainable development. In this context she is interested in the potential of cooperation and – in an original sense – competition.

Ken Friedman

ken.friedman@bi.no
Norwegian School of Management, NORWAY

Ken Friedman works at the intersection of three fields: design, management, and art. At Denmark’s Design School, he works with theory construction and comparative research methodology for design. As Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design at the Norwegian School of Management, he focuses on knowledge economy issues.
Ken Friedman has done research in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of design, and doctoral education in design. He also works with national design policy projects in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Wales. Friedman plays an active role in developing international research networks and conferences for the design research community as editor of the journal Artifact, as book reviews editor of Design Research News, and Communications Secretary of the Design Research Society. He co-chaired the La Clusaz Conference on Doctoral Education in Design in 2000, the 2006 conference of the European Academy of Management in Oslo, and the 2006 conference of the Design Research Society in Lisbon. Ken Friedman is also a practicing artist and designer active in the international laboratory known as Fluxus. In 2007, Loughborough University honored Friedman with the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, for outstanding contributions to design research.

Consuelo García de la Torre

cogarcia@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Researcher in areas as models of administration and management in America Latin, social management sustainability researcher in cross cultural, social responsibility, consumer and local development of governments.  In the EGADE, gives the courses of Behavior of the Consumer, Project Applied in Multicultural Marketing, Networks Marketing Productive and seminary of Philosophy enterprise and ethic. The Modality of Leadership for the Social Development in Mexico with the students.

Thomas Garvey

garvey@ccs.carleton.ca
Carleton University, CANADA

Raghu Garud

rgarud@stern.nyu.edu
New York University, USA

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.

Leticia Gaytán

lgaytan@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Leticia Gaytán is a PhD candidate at the UNAM at the Faculty of Architecture, in Mexico City. She received her Master’s Degree at the High school of Art of Berlin (1998), and her Bachelor’s Degree in Product Design at the UNAM (1994).
She has the role of professor since 1999. Her research interests are sustainability and creativity in Product Design. Leticia is a Business woman and furniture designer, she has her own Design studio and a furniture factory in Mexico City with clients like HSBC, PEMEX, Unilever, etc. She worked at Daimler-Benz in Sindelfingen Germany (1997-98).

Göran Goldkuhl

goran.goldkuhl@liu.se
Linköping Univeristy, SWEDEN

Professor of Information Systems Development at Linköping University and Professor of Informatics at Jönköping International Business School. Ph.D. at Stockholm University 1980. He is the director of the Swedish research network VITS, consisting of more than 40 researchers at seven Swedish universities. He is currently developing a family of theories, which all are founded on socio-instrumental pragmatism: Work practice Theory, Business Action Theory, Information Systems Actability Theory. He has a great interest in interpretive and qualitative research methods and he has contributed to the development of Multi-Grounded Theory, (a modified version of Grounded Theory). He is active in international research communities as Language Action Perspective (LAP), Organizational Semiotics, and Action in Language, Organizations and Information Systems (ALOIS).

Alfonso Gómez

alfonso.gomez@uai.cl
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, CHILE

Jorge Gómez

jgomezabrams@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Industrial Designer graduated at UNAM, Jorge obtained his Master Degree on Design in Birmingham University in England, and a Ph.D. on Production Engineering in the Universidad de Santa Catarina in Brazil. Jorge Gomez Abrams is a specialist in Design Management and Integrated Development of new Products, combining business strategies, marketing research, Industrial Design, and manufacture process.

Lev Gonick

Lev.Gonick@case.edu
Case Western Reserve University, USA

Lev Gonick, vice president for information technology services and CIO at Case Western Reserve University, has been teaching, working, and living on the Net since 1987. He is also president of the board of OneCleveland, a metropolitan-wide strategy to extend high-speed network connectivity to the nonprofit sector in northeast Ohio. Gonick serves on multiple national and local boards and has been named one of the country's top CIOs by both InformationWeek and ComputerWorld. Previously, he served as chief information technology officer for Cal State Monterey Bay. From 1996 through 1999, Gonick was university dean for instructional technology and academic computing at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. Gonick's extensive international efforts in education and technology date back to 1985. Thirteen years ago, he supported the development of HealthNet and Mango, one of Southern Africa's first Internet nodes, facilitating connectivity between health-care professionals and nongovernmental organizations in the field in Southern Africa. He has been involved in designing and implementing digital learning network projects in West African countries and in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine. Gonick received his PhD in international political economy from York University in Ontario, Canada.

Gloria Patricia Herrera Saray

pgsaray@hotmail.com
Universidad Católica Popular del Risaralda, COLOMBIA

She is actually an investigator and lecturer in the Industrial Design Faculty at Universidad Catolica Popular del Risaralda – Colombia. As an Industrial Designer, she holds a Specialization in Pedagogy and Human development from Universidad Catolica Popular del Risaralda in 2000. By 2004, she went through an MA in Industrial Design emphasizing on Ergonomics. Then by 2007, she finished her PhD studies in Architecture aimed to the application of the Ergonomics in psycho-geriatrics spaces. Both MA and PhD degrees were held at the UNAM (Universidad Autonoma de Mexico).
Actually, she is a consultant for projects related with the Human Factor area and the projection of technical support for people suffering disabledness. She is currently working on the development of a “Handcrafting Labors Projections in Risaralda” investigation, by leading the Ergonomics of the product, Human Dimensions, and Human Factor Designing Workshop.

Mathew Hollern

mhollern@cia.edu
Cleveland Institute of Art, USA

Matthew Hollern is Dean of Faculty, and Professor at The Cleveland Institute of Art where he has taught jewelry, CAD/CAM + RP, and business since 1989.  He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Art and French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  In his junior year he lived in Aix-en-Provence, France where he attended the Universite´ Aix-Marseille, and studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts - Aix-en-Provence.  In 1989 he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Jewelry – Metals - CAD/CAM from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.  He has received research and professional development grants from the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Lilly Foundation, The John and Maxeen Flower Fund, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council.  His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe, and is included in the collections of The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Vatican, The Ohio Crafts Museum, Alcatel-Sprint, and others. He has served as Chair of the Craft Disciplines and Dean of Design and Material Culture from 1997-2005. Current projects include organizational development as co-founder of Cadlaboration (www.cadlaboration.com), an inter-institutional collaboration established to contribute to the ongoing evolution of the field art and design by fostering education and substantive collaboration among artists working with digital technologies. In addition he currently serves on the steering committee for the Design a Life Conference, Cleveland - May, 2008.

Lena Holmberg

lena.holmberg@apprino.com
Apprino, SWEDEN

Wendy Jansen

wendyjansen@trias.nu
Universiteit van Amsterdam The Netherlands

I’m specialised in the more structural aspects of designing organizations, networks and information systems, both working as associate professor at the Royal Netherlands Military Academy (until 2002), as a research fellow for the University of Amsterdam and as a management consultant. However, during my research on design issues, I increasingly got fascinated by the images held by participants in design processes. Especially, when I researched virtual organisations and lectured on the specific traits of this kind of organization forms, I was struck by the often completely different reception the notions of collaboration based on trust and win-win-situations got. Many persons I discussed these characterises with, recognised and positively supported these notions, but I also got many negative comments on the feasibility of virtual designs. I decided to search for the reason for this differing opinions, and tried to find as an important factor a fundamental orientation in individuals, which colours their perception on design. This search for the importance of a perception of scarcity or abundance, has enriched both my life and my own perception of design. I believe that positive design is based on an perception of abundance, while in academic disciplines we are often faced with models and theories, which are based on a perception of scarcity.

Julie Kendall

julie@thekendalls.org  
Rutgers University, USA

Julie E. Kendall, Ph. D., is an associate professor of ecommerce and information technology in the School of Business-Camden, Rutgers University. Dr. Kendall is the Chair of IFIP Working Group 8.2. Professor Kendall has published in MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Information & Management, Organization Studies and many other journals. Additionally, Dr. Kendall has recently co-authored a college textbook with Kenneth E. Kendall, Systems Analysis and Design, sixth edition, published by Prentice Hall. She is also a coauthor of Project Planning and Requirements Analysis for IT Systems Development. She co-edited the volume Human, Organizational, and Social Dimensions of Information Systems Development published by North-Holland. Dr. Kendall was a functional editor of MIS for Interfaces and has served as an associate editor for MIS Quarterly. She is a Senior Editor for JITTA. Dr. Kendall is on the editorial review board of the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, the Journal of Database Management, and the editorial review board of the Information Resource Management Journal. She served on the inaugural editorial board of the Journal of AIS. She recently served as Treasurer of the Decision Sciences Institute, and has served as a Vice President for DSI. Dr. Kendall is researching societal implications of push and pull technologies. She and her co-author Dr. Ken Kendall, are currently examining the strategic uses of Web presence and ecommerce for off-Broadway theatres and other nonprofit organizations in the service sector.

Ken Kendall

ken@thekendalls.org  
Rutgers University, USA

Kenneth E. Kendall, Ph. D., is a professor of ecommerce and information technology in the School of Business-Camden, Rutgers University. He is one of the founders of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). He is an Associate Editor for Decision Sciences, and he is on the Senior Advisory board of JITTA. He is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies. Dr. Kendall is on the editorial review board of the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. He served as the functional MIS editor for Interfaces and as Associate Editor for the Information Resources Management Journal.
Dr. Kendall has been named as one of the top 60 most productive MIS researchers in the world, and he was awarded the Silver Core from IFIP. He is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. He recently coauthored a text, Systems Analysis and Design, sixth edition, published by Prentice Hall and Project Planning and Requirements Analysis for IT Systems Development, second edition. He edited Emerging Information Technologies: Improving Decisions, Cooperation, and Infrastructure for Sage Publications, Inc. Dr. Kendall has had his research published in MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Operations Research, Decision Sciences, Information & Management, and many other journals. Dr. Kendall is the past Chair of IFIP Working Group 8.2 and served as a Vice President for the Decision Sciences Institute. Professor Kendall’s research focuses on studying push and pull technologies, ecommerce strategies and developing new tools for systems analysis and design.

Noel León

noel.leon@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Noel León is a professor at the Center for Product Innovation in Design and Technology at Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterrey where he coordinates the Engineering Design Area. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering as well as a PhD in mechanical engineering (Summa cum Laude), both from the Dresden University of Technology, in Germany. Dr. León is the Director of the Research Program Creativity, Inventiveness and Innovation in Engineering. He specializes in Product Design, Design Methodology and Computer Aided Engineering. Some of his recent research has involved Simulation of Multibody Systems in Automotive Engineering, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ). He teaches Product Design and Analysis, as well as Computer-Aided Engineering.He chairs the IFIP Working Group WG5.4, Computer Aided Innovation. He owns two patents and has applied for 15 new patents.
He is member of the National Researchers System of Mexico.

Gondy Leroy

gondy.leroy@cgu.edu
Claremont Graduate University, USA

Gondy Leroy is Assistant Professor in the School of Information Systems and Technology and on the Extended Faculty for Applied Women’s Studies at Claremont Graduate University in California. She received a combined B.S. and M.S. degree in cognitive psychology from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium (1996), and a M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.  In 2003 and 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the National Library of Medicine. Her research interests are in the design of algorithms and systems that include natural language processing, text mining, and HCI with a focus on healthcare and e-government.  Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and Microsoft Research, among others. She serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Database Management and served as guest editor for Decision Support Systems and Women’s Studies. Website: http://ist.cgu.edu/leroyg

Kalle Lyytinen

kalle@case.edu
Case Western Reserve University, USA

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.

Rik Maes

maestro@uva.nl
University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS

Rik Maes is professor in Information and Communication Management at the University of Amsterdam Business School, where he is dean of the Executive Master in Information Management program. His current research interests include the foundations of information management, innovative learning strategies and sense making in organizations. He is particularly interested in combining different disciplines, including philosophy, design, art and architecture in the development of the field of information management. Website: www.rikmaes.nl

Alessandro Manetti

a.manetti@ied.es
Istituto Europeo di Design, SPAIN

Alessandro is Dean of the Istituto Europeo di Design in Barcelona (IED), leader school on design, visual arts, communication, and fashion since 2002; he was Dean at the IED in Torino from 1998 through 2002 and subdirector from communication IED at Milan from 1995 through 1998.  Sociologist for over 13 years, he has worked on themes related to design, fashion, communication, creativity, new tendencies and to the changes on contemporary societies applied to formation, research, and projects. Concept Developer, Strategic Designer and at the same time Creative Manager with vast experience on business management and organizations, where team work represents the key factor. Versatile and multidisciplinary, researches about the possible connections between disciplines as fashion, new media, design, arts, music, economics and management. Treasurer member and art chairman on the MODAFAD board, promotion association of design and fashion in Catalunya; member of the Plataforma de Escuelas de Moda de Barcelona and member of the editorial committee of the bimestrial tendencies magazine. He organizes conferences and classes about several themes linked to design, fashion and new tendencies on European and International universities and schools, participating on congresses and other events related to fashion and design; commissioner at different expositions, book authors and design and fashion publications.

Horacio Marchand

horaciomarchand@gmail.com
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Horacio Marchand is an Associate Professor of Strategic Marketing at EGADE, Monterrey Tec. He is concluding his PhD in Mythological Studies with emphasis on Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara CA and has an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin. Building on his experience in the corporate world, as an entrepreneur, and a consultant on Strategic Marketing, his research focuses on detecting and exploting business opportunities. He is also interested in the tradeoff between stability and innovation and how this shapes strategy; he believes this to be primarly dependant on the psyche and profiles of senior executives, an idea he likes to call Psychology of Competitiveness. He published the book Hipermarketing, Ed. Oceano, 2004. His articles, more than 400, have been published in nationwide newspapers and magazines.

Flavio Marín

fmarin@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Flavio is the founder and Director of Business Landscaping, a small radical innovation Center within Tec de Monterrey – arguably the leading private university in México.  With a “zero based”, and Design mind-set, Flavio has led innovation projects for local and international companies, primarily for disruptive food, beverages, laundry, and feminine hygiene products – addressing product, business model, and supply chain Design simultaneously.  Business Landscaping is also focused on the rescue and projection of pre-hispanic natural resources, with one start-up already in operation.
Learning from this experience led to the launch of the New Business Generation and dual master degree program Babson College – Tec de Monterrey in August, 2007.  Flavio served as lead program designer, and presently serves as his first Director.  Flavio has also designed and implemented several new courses, including one on Chemical Product Design and Development, for Tec´s Chemical Engineering undergraduate program. 
Before joining Tec de Monterrey, Flavio worked for Procter & Gamble in México, USA, South America, and Europe. 

Lars Mathiassen

Lars.Mathiassen@eci.gsu.edu
Georgia State University, USA

Lars Mathiassen received his master’s degree in computer science from Aarhus University, Denmark, in 1975, his PhD in informatics from Oslo University, Norway, in 1981, and his Dr. Techn. degree in software engineering from Aalborg University, 1998. He is currently GRA Eminent Scholar and professor in Department of Computer Information Systems and co-founder of Center for Process Innovation at Georgia State University. His research interests are within information systems and software engineering with a particular emphasis on process innovation. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and AIS and coauthor of Computers in Context (Blackwell 1993), Object Oriented Analysis & Design (Marko Publishing, 2000), and Improving Software Organizations (Addison-Wesley, 2002). He currently serves as senior editor for MIS Quarterly and his research is published in journals like Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Communications of the ACM, Information, Technology & People, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, and IEEE Software.
lmathiassen@gsu.edu, Georgia State University.

Constanza Miranda

csmirand@uc.cl
Pontificia Universidad Católica, CHILE

Nannette Napier

nnapier@ggc.usg.edu
Georgia Gwinnett College, USA

Carlos Osorio

carlos.osorio@uai.cl
Adolfo Ibáñez University, CHILE

Carlos A. Osorio is Associate Professor of Management and Engineering at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, with joint appointments at the School of Management and the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences.  His research focuses on innovation processes and architecting of complex engineering systems, and has published work in privacy and security-enhancing technologies, digital government, and the economics of information technologies. He is currently working on a book to be titled “Competencies for Innovation” and work on Exaptation in Human Made Systems. His teaching focuses on innovation processes, the management of innovation and architecture and design of new products.
He authored, jointly with Jane Fountain, the first study about the impact of digital government in the United States, the first econometric study about the economic impact of broadband in the United States, and developed the basis for the Global Information Technology Report for the World Economic Forum.  His work has been covered in media such as CNN, Salon.com, Corriere della Sera, among others. He hosts the cable television program “Nueva Mente” (New Minds), which shows and analyzes histories of Chilean innovators and their process of discovery in Canal 13 Cable, in Chile.
Prof. Osorio is co-founder of the Design and Innovation Lab at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, he is affiliated to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and has been visiting research scientist at MIT Media Lab, research associate at Harvard Center for International Development.  He had advised the Minister of Economy in Technology and Innovation Policy, where he lead the design of Chile´s new Digital Development Strategy, as well as global companies in the energy, telecommunications, and biotechnology sectors.
Prof. Osorio holds a PhD in Technology, Management and Policy, and a Master in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University as Fulbright Scholar, and earned a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Chile.   Carlos enjoys cooking, drawing and walking and lives in Santiago, Chile. He has three sons.

Elizabeth Pastor

epastor@humantific.com
Humantific, Spain/USA

José Luis Pineda

jlpineda@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Ron Purser

rpurser@sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University, USA

Ronald Purser is Professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University, and an adjunct faculty member and Benedictine University, Fielding Institute, and Colorado Technical University. Prior to this, he was a tenured professor and Graduate Program Director at the Center for Organization Development at Loyola University of Chicago. Dr. Purser earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and his B.A. in Psychology from Sonoma State University. He is past Division Chair for the Organization Development and Change division of the Academy of Management. He has published over sixty refereed journal articles and book chapters on high performance work systems, design of new product development organizations, environmental management, social creativity, and participative strategic planning. His research has been featured in such places as Fortune, The Washington Post, and Training magazines.
Dr. Purser has been an active consultant and researcher in both the private and public sector. Some of his major clients in the private sector have included Amoco, Andersen Consulting, Eastman Kodak, Exxon Chemicals, General Electric, Metal Container, Polaroid, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, Storage Technology, Syncrude Canada, United Airlines, Whirlpool, and Xerox. Public sectors clients have included Office of the Governor (Delaware), Calgary Board of Education, Symphony Orchestra Institute, Office of the Governor (Mississippi), The Nature Conservancy, Illinois Board of Education, Illinois Public Leadership Forum, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to his academic career, he was a journeyman industrial electrician at Pullman-Standard and a number of other factories in the Chicago area. He also worked as an engineering draftsman assistant at the Abex Corporation, a production line operator at a pharmaceutical plant, and as a mental health technician at psychiatric hospitals in California, Illinois and Ohio.

Leticia Ramos

ramos.leticia@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Leticia Ramos-Garza received her Ph.D. from Tulane University, 2000 and is currently Director of Research and Academic Development of the Management and Finance Division at ITESM (Institute of Technology of Higher Education in Monterrey), Monterrey Campus.   She is head of the organizing chair committee of this conference.
Professor Ramos research focuses on the following topics:
 Successful professional women in Mexico, Leadership in Mexico, The Effects of “Compadrazgo” or Friendship outside the working environment on Leader Relations, Group Citizenship Behaviors in Mexico, How self managing teams work in Mexican companies?, A Proposed Model of GLMX (Group Leader Exchange) Relationships in Mexico, and Diversity versus Similarity within workgroups.

Luis Rodríguez

luis.rodriguez@uia.mx
Universidad Iberoamericana, MÉXICO

Industrial Designer, graduated at Universidad Iberoamericana, studied in Holland and obtained his Master Degree in Birmingham University, England. Currently, he is working on his Ph. D. thesis in Design Theory at the National University in Mexico City. Luis Rodríguez has collaborated with several companies in México City, especially with small and medium firms, developing product design and business strategies. Was head of the Design Department at Universidad Iberoamericana and now is in charge of the Master Degree course on Strategic Design and Innovation, and has collaborated as visiting professor at Bachelor and Postgraduate courses with various Mexican and Latin American universities, such as: National University (México), Universidad de Guadalajara (México), Universidad de San Luis Potosí (México), UNISUL (Brasil), Universidad de Quito (Ecuador), Escuela Superior de Diseño (Cuba), Universidad del Istmo (Guatemala)
Has written five books on Design Theory and Design History and numerous articles in national and international magazines.

Joachim Scheurer

J.Scheurer@macromedia.de

Rajendra Singh

raj.singh@ceprin.gsu.edu
Georgia State University, US

Naoko Takeda

naoko@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Naoko studied Industrial Design at UNAM, Masters in Industrial Design at Kanazawa College of Art, Japan; and Ph.D. on Product Design at Kanazawa College of Art, Japan.  She specializes on the study of forms, biomorphism, biomimicry, and emotional design (kansei engineering). She has participated on courses about creativity and emotional design (kansei engineering) for companies. On the same matter, she has done design projects for businesses on the industrial design area. She is coordinator of the Industrial Design and Product Innovation master program at Tecnológico de Monterrey; she is participating on the Investigation Group: Creativity, Inventiveness and Innovation on Engineering. Some of the award and prizes she has received are: Medalla Gabino Barreda from UNAM; award for the best student from Kanazawa city, Japan 1997 and 1998; First place on the National Contest on the Mobile Units Design, for ADO Company 1995; Second place on the Yamagata Green Design competition ‘96”, Japan; Second place on the “Yupo Design Competition”, Tokio, Japan; and others. Her outstanding expositions are: “Designers’ Catalogue 5” 1999, on the Gallery of Matsuya at Ginza, Japan; Casa de la Cultura on Monterrey, México; and the Japanese Embassy on México City.  She has participated on publications on international magazines specialized on design, engineering, and education. She has given and participated on lectures, courses and conferences on México, Japan, USA, Australia, the Netherlands, France and Hong Kong.
The inventions that come out from her biomorphism investigations have given as a result, patents and patents in process; those represent an important participation for the research and development at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey.

Dov Te´eni

teeni@post.tau.ac.il
Tel-Aviv University, ISRAEL

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.

Tojo Thatchenkery

thatchen@gmu.edu
George Mason University, USA

Tojo Thatchenkery is Professor of Organization Development and Knowledge Management at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University. He is also a member of the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science and the Taos Institute. His recent books include Appreciative Inquiry and Knowledge Management: A Social Constructionist Perspective (2007), Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn (Harvard Business Review 2006 Reading List), and Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge: Leveraging Knowledge Management for Strategic Change (2005). Tojo has also researched contemporary themes such as technological culture and globalization which resulted in another book, Information Communication Technology and Economic Development: Learning from the Indian Experience (2006). He has over twenty years of experience in teaching at various Public Policy, MBA, Organization Development, and executive programs in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Tojo founded the graduate program in Organizational Learning and the Organizational Learning Laboratory at George Mason University in 1995. He has extensive consulting experience in change management, organization development, and knowledge management. Past and current clients include IBM, Fannie Mae, Booz Allen Hamilton, PNC Bank, Lucent Technologies, General Mills, IMF, World Bank, USDA, EPA, and the Tata Consulting Services. Tojo is on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences and the Journal of Organizational Change Management.

Kaja Tooming Buchanan

kajatbuchanan@hotmail.com

Kaja Tooming Buchanan is currently working in the area of design theory, investigating the positive social influence of design through perception, the construction of meaning, and the forms of experience in human interaction.  She received her Ph.D. in Design in 2007 from the Faculty of Fine, Applied, and Performance Arts at Göteborg University, Sweden in 2007. Her doctoral research is an example of practice-based design research guided by the strategy of Productive Science and Poetics, offering insight into the aesthetic and acoustic qualities of hand-tufted fibre art in the context of interior spatial design.  A central feature of her work is a philosophical reflection on the nature of unity and emotional expression in art and design. She also has Master of Arts in Art History from Göteborg University and a Diploma (BA & MFA) in Art and Craft from the Estonian Academy of Art.  As a practicing artist, she has had more than ten solo exhibitions, and has participated in a dozen international group exhibitions. She has received more than eighteen cultural and research grants and fellowships.

Salvador Treviño

saltrevino@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO

Salvador Treviño got a B.A. in Marketing at ITESM on 1984, has a specialty in International Business from the Eccole Superioure de Commerce du Centre, Tours  in 1990, has a Masters in Business Administration from SUNY in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Management with a Marketing Specialty from the University of Memphis on 2003.
Salvador’s specialty areas include investigation topics such as: Consumer Analysis, knowledge transfer to consumers, Branding, and Commercial communication processes. His professional development is center around three primary areas including knowledge transfer, academic research and professional consulting. His academic interest and area of research are focus on marketing with specialty in the area of services, sells and promotional communication. He has published and co-author peer review articles in journals such as industrial marketing management and marketing education review as well, he has presented articles at numerous marketing international business conferences.

GK VanPatter

gvanpatter@nextd.org
NextDesign Leadership Institute, USA

Wilma van de Heuvel

w.vdheuvel@casema.nl
SAAO, THE NETHERLANDS

I work as a consultant in change management in both small local and large international organizations. In the last 6 years I investigated and advised the Rabobank Group on topics like stress management, employee motivation and satisfaction and change management. AI became one of my favourite tools for overcoming resistance to change. Using this approach together with narrative techniques I discovered with my clients an abundance of ideas and possibilities beyond the ones used in everyday life. Recently I came across the research by Wendy Jansen on “the Image of ‘Unlimited Good’ in Positive Design”. We decided to investigate the dynamics of abundance-thinking by looking at significant examples in our professional practices.
I studied social and organizational psychology MA in Utrecht, NL. and educational psychology MA in Tilburg, NL

Rodrigo Walker

rwa@wd.cl
Universidad de Chile, CHILE

Studied and graduated from Industrial Design, with “Unánime” distinction, from La Universidad de Chile, (1971). Rodrigo has studied about communication and capacity of action in REDCOM-CHILE 1987-1999, and in Chile from Action Technology (California/USA). From 1998 to 2001 he was part of the first generation of Industrial Designers who had to implement this activity, academically and professionally, in Chile and in other Latin American countries. He dedicated his first professional years to research and the development of the first projects of Industrial and Graphic Design implemented for the National Industry, playing a role as a designer – researcher in SERCOTEC (Technical Copperation –CORFO Service), in the project OIT/CORFO for the small and medium businesses development  and the INTEC/CORFO.
During his professional trajectory, he has dedicated to spread design as a powerful tool of business management; giving lectures, seminaries and courses on countries such as: Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay.
Has advised and advises to a variety of Chilean and Latin American businesses.
In his academic and professional trajectory, he has written many articles on specialized Design magazines and newspapers, playing a leading role in his activity as Designer. He has been distinguished with several Chilean and International prizes in Industrial Design and Corporate Image, being his own business Walker Diseño & Asociados, the only Design Company that figures in the Industrial Design history in Chile. (History of Industrial Design 1919-1990 The dominion of design Editorial Electa Milán 1991).
At the moment, Rodrigo is co-founder and CEO of Walker Diseño y Asociados, consulting business in product design, corporate image design, and packaging design, founded in 1980.

Geoff Walsham

g.walsham@jbs.cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge, UK

Geoff Walsham is a Professor of Management Studies (Information Systems) at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.  In addition to Cambridge, he has held academic posts at the University of Lancaster in the UK where he was Professor of Information Management, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and Mindanao State University in the Philippines. His teaching and research is focused on the development, management and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the effects of ICT use on organizations and societies in both industrialized and developing countries.  His publications include ‘Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations (Wiley 1993), and ‘Making a World of Difference: IT in a Global Context’ (Wiley, 2001).

Diana Whitney

diana@positivechange.org
Corporation for Positive Change, USA

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.

Youngjin Yoo

youngjin.yoo@temple.edu
http://youngjinyoo.com
Temple University, USA

Youngjin Yoo is Associate Professor in Management Information Systems and Irwin L. Gross Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business and Management School of Management at Temple University. His research interests include integrating design approaches in managing innovations and information technology, knowledge management and ubiquitous computing. His work was published at leading academic journals including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, the Communications of the ACM, and the Academy of Management Journal. He is a senior editor of Journal of Strategic Information Systems, an associate editor of Management Science and Information Systems Research, and on the editorial board of Organization Science, Journal of AIS, and Information and Organization.

Danielle Zandee

d.zandee@nyenrode.nl
Nyenrode Universiteit, THE NETHERLANDS

Danielle is an Associate Professor at Nyenrode Business Universiteit. She studies organizational development in the context of societal change from an affirmative, discursive and collaborative perspective. She writes about organizational generativity, the renewal of organizational design, positive textual deviance as a vehicle for change, and the generative dimensions of appreciative inquiry. As an active contributor to Executive Education at Nyenrode, Danielle is currently facilitating an organizational learning program for top management of Vitens, the main water company in the Netherlands.
Danielle received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, where she most recently taught appreciative inquiry in the Masters in Positive OD and Change Program (MPOD), and “leadership and the global agenda” in the undergraduate program.

Laura Zapata

lzapata@itesm.mx
Tec de Monterrey, MÉXICO