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Discussion group topics and group leaders (1:00 - 3:00 pm session, concurrent with lunch)

Group #	Discussion Topics	Discussion Leaders
1	Asymmetries in the emerging information regime	Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
2	The innovation economy	James Canton (Institute for Global Futures)
3	Services Science: A new academic field that needs to arise	Henry Chesbrough (UC Berkeley)
4	The business - IT gap: Implications for the workplace	David Flaxer (IBM)
5	Globally distributed teams	Julia Gluesing (Wayne State University)
6	Social networking tools and the "knowledge management fatigue syndrome"	David Hakken (SUNY Institute of Technology)
7	From visible to virtual hand: How will managers lead in the era of the extensible enterprise?	James Hoopes (Babson College)
8	Cultural dimensions of technology adoption: Applying technology within the global enterprise	Drew Isaacs (UC Berkeley)
9	"Socially translucent" systems: Supporting online working communities	Wendy Kellogg (IBM)
10	Social capital and knowledge management in the global enterprise	Eric Lesser (IBM)
11	Transforming learning to add strategic value to the global extensible enterprise	Tony O'Driscoll (IBM)
12	Legal issues at work	Sonia E. Miller (S.E. Miller Law Firm) and Steven L. Berson (Kilpatrick Stockton LLP)
13	Participatory work design in organizations	Patricia Sachs (Social Solutions) and Jim Euchner (Pitney Bowes R&D)
14	Cracking the code of transformative performance: Liberating human productivity and accelerating value creation	Susan Stucky and Jeff Kelley (Transform Partners)