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View article: Towards Design Patterns for Information Systems – Finding Suitable Artefact Type Candidates for a Design Problem
Towards Design Patterns for Information Systems – Finding Suitable Artefact Type Candidates for a Design Problem Open
The artefact is at the core of Design Science Research in Information Systems (DSR). The growing variety and complexity of designs makes selecting the best-suited artefact type in a research project more challenging. Extant classification …
View article: Generativity and Profitability on B2B Innovation Platforms: A Simulation-Based Theory Development
Generativity and Profitability on B2B Innovation Platforms: A Simulation-Based Theory Development Open
Firms generate innovations to profit from market opportunities, which are newly identified customer needs not yet being met in the market. The rising complexity of market opportunities requires collaboration among multiple partner firms. H…
View article: Dealing with Complexity in Design Science Research: A Methodology Using Design Echelons
Dealing with Complexity in Design Science Research: A Methodology Using Design Echelons Open
Design science research (DSR) aims to generate knowledge about innovative solutions to real-world problems. Consequently, DSR needs to deal with the complexity related to problem and solution spaces involving sociotechnical phenomena that …
View article: Generativity and Profitability on B2B Innovation Platforms: A Simulation-based Theory Development
Generativity and Profitability on B2B Innovation Platforms: A Simulation-based Theory Development Open
Firms generate innovations to profit from market opportunities, which are newly identified customer needs not yet being met in the market. The rising complexity of market opportunities requires collaboration among multiple partner firms. H…
View article: Generativity and Profitability on B2B Innovation Platforms: A Simulation-based Theory Development
Generativity and Profitability on B2B Innovation Platforms: A Simulation-based Theory Development Open
This registry includes three documents with helpful information about our simulation model and the data it generates: Pseudocode: This document displays the pseudocode of our simulation model. Data: In this document, you will find all the …
View article: Generativity and Profitability on B2B Innovation Platforms: A Simulation-based Theory Development
Generativity and Profitability on B2B Innovation Platforms: A Simulation-based Theory Development Open
This registry includes three documents with helpful information about our simulation model and the data it generates: Pseudocode: This document displays the pseudocode of our simulation model. Data: In this document, you will find all the …
View article: Dynamic capabilities for transitioning from product platform ecosystem to innovation platform ecosystem
Dynamic capabilities for transitioning from product platform ecosystem to innovation platform ecosystem Open
Over recent decades, many platform-native start-ups and firms were founded and some are now among the world’s most valuable. This study, however, focuses on an incumbent firm transitioning from a long established product platform ecosystem…
View article: The impact of enterprise architecture management on information systems architecture complexity
The impact of enterprise architecture management on information systems architecture complexity Open
Significant investments in information systems (IS) over the past decades have led to increasingly complex IS architectures in organisations, which are difficult to understand, operate, and maintain. We investigate this development and ass…
View article: Strategic alignment of enterprise architecture management – how portfolios of control mechanisms track a decade of enterprise transformation at Commerzbank
Strategic alignment of enterprise architecture management – how portfolios of control mechanisms track a decade of enterprise transformation at Commerzbank Open
Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is commonly employed by large organisations to coordinate local information system development efforts in line with organisation-wide strategic objectives while simultaneously avoiding redundancies …
View article: OpenHSI: A Complete Open-Source Hyperspectral Imaging Solution for Everyone
OpenHSI: A Complete Open-Source Hyperspectral Imaging Solution for Everyone Open
OpenHSI is an initiative to lower the barriers of entry and bring compact pushbroom hyperspectral imaging spectrometers to a wider audience. We present an open-source optical design that can be replicated with readily available commercial-…
View article: Governance Mechanisms in Digital Platform Ecosystems: Addressing the Generativity-Control Tension
Governance Mechanisms in Digital Platform Ecosystems: Addressing the Generativity-Control Tension Open
Digital platform owners repeatedly face paradoxical design decisions with regard to their platforms’ generativity and control, requiring them to facilitate co-innovation whilst simultaneously retaining control over third-party complementor…
View article: Taxonomy of Digital Platforms: A Business Model Perspective
Taxonomy of Digital Platforms: A Business Model Perspective Open
Digital platforms (DPs) – technical core artifacts augmented by peripheral third-party complementary resources – facilitate the interaction and collaboration of different actors through highly-efficient resource matching. As DPs differ sig…
View article: Context-Aware Digitalization – Adapting solution development to the organizational context of SMEs
Context-Aware Digitalization – Adapting solution development to the organizational context of SMEs Open
In the context of digital transformation, it is mandatory for most organizations to conduct information systems development (ISD) projects as part of their digitalization and business development journey. One reason that many ISD projects …
View article: Special Issue Editorial –Accumulation and Evolution of Design Knowledge in Design Science Research: A Journey Through Time and Space
Special Issue Editorial –Accumulation and Evolution of Design Knowledge in Design Science Research: A Journey Through Time and Space Open
Sir Isaac Newton (1676) famously said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Research is a collaborative, evolutionary endeavor—and it is no different with design science research (DSR), which builds upon …
View article: Introduction to the Minitrack on Developing Visual Collaborative Tools
Introduction to the Minitrack on Developing Visual Collaborative Tools Open
Collaboration has been increasingly required to address the current challenges faced by organizations.With digitalization, these challenges are more and more complex but have common characteristics: they concern the organization as a whole…
View article: Designing TRiDS: Treatments for Risks in Design Science
Designing TRiDS: Treatments for Risks in Design Science Open
Design Science Research (DSR) has many risks. Researchers inexperienced in DSR, especially early career researchers (ECRs) and research students (e.g. PhD students) risk inefficient projects (with delays, rework, etc.) at best and research…
View article: Industry Solution Adaptability
Industry Solution Adaptability Open
The spectrum of changes that enterprises need to deal with varies from simple continuous adjustments of the product portfolio in response to evolving customer preferences, to complete overhauls of the business and operating model in respon…
View article: Taxonomy of Digital Platforms: A Platform Architecture Perspective
Taxonomy of Digital Platforms: A Platform Architecture Perspective Open
Digital platforms—technical core artefacts augmented by peripheral third-party derivatives—afford organizations to integrate resources in networked business ecosystems. Although digital platforms widely differ in their configurations, digi…
View article: Mission Impossible? Exploring the Limits of Managing Large IT Projects and Ways to Cross the Line
Mission Impossible? Exploring the Limits of Managing Large IT Projects and Ways to Cross the Line Open
For decades much effort has been made to improve project management capabilities. Still, the failure rate remains high, especially for large IT projects. Our postmortem analysis of 15 large IT projects of the Swiss Federal Administration, …
View article: Exploring Foundations for Using Simulations in IS Research
Exploring Foundations for Using Simulations in IS Research Open
Researchers in many fields have adopted simulation to understand a system’s behavior by imitating it through an artificial object that exhibits nearly identical behavior. Although simulation approaches have been widely adopted for theory b…
View article: Tool Support for Design Science Research—Towards a Software Ecosystem: A Report from a DESRIST 2017 Workshop
Tool Support for Design Science Research—Towards a Software Ecosystem: A Report from a DESRIST 2017 Workshop Open
The information systems (IS) field contains a rich body of knowledge on approaches, methods, and frameworks that supports researchers in conducting design science research (DSR). It also contains some consensus about the key elements of DS…
View article: Service robots in hospitals: new perspectives on niche evolution and technology affordances
Service robots in hospitals: new perspectives on niche evolution and technology affordances Open
Changing demands in society and the limited capabilities of health systems have paved the way for robots to move out of industrial contexts and enter more human-centered environments such as health care. We explore the shared beliefs and c…
View article: TRiDS: Treatments for Risks in Design Science
TRiDS: Treatments for Risks in Design Science Open
Conducting Design Science Research (DSR) has many risks. Extant literature, such as the Risk Management Framework for Design Science Research (RMF4DSR), provides advice for identifying risks, but provides few suggestions for specific treat…
View article: Analyzing Affordances of Digital Occupational Health Systems
Analyzing Affordances of Digital Occupational Health Systems Open
This study adopts two distinct perspectives, employer and employee, to analyze the affordances of digital occupational health (DOH) systems and their appropriation. Data were collected in the context of a European collaborative research pr…
View article: Port Control Protocol (PCP) Third-Party ID Option
Port Control Protocol (PCP) Third-Party ID Option Open
This document describes a new Port Control Protocol (PCP) option called the THIRD_PARTY_ID option.It is designed to be used together with the THIRD_PARTY option specified in RFC 6887.The THIRD_PARTY_ID option serves to identify a third par…
View article: Justification of Data Warehousing Projects
Justification of Data Warehousing Projects Open
Project justification is regarded as one of the major methodological deficits in Data Warehousing practice. As reasons for applying inappropriate methods, performing incomplete evaluations, or even entirely omitting justifications, the spe…