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Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association

SACLA 2019: ICT Education pp 163–178Cite as

Guidelines for Conducting Design Science Research in Information Systems

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Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 1136))

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Information Systems (IS) as a discipline is still young and is continuously involved in building its own research knowledge base. Design Science Research (DSR) in IS is a research strategy for design that has emerged in the last 16 years. Junior IS researchers are often lost when they start with a project in DSR. We identified a need for a set of guidelines with supporting reference literature that can assist such novice adopters of DSR. We identified major themes relevant to DSR and proposed a set of six guidelines for the novice researcher supported with references summaries of seminal works from the IS DSR literature. We believe that someone new to the field can use these guidelines to prepare him/herself to embark on a DSR study.

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    Alta van der Merwe, Aurona Gerber & Hanlie Smuts

  2. Centre for AI Research (CAIR), Pretoria, South Africa

    Aurona Gerber

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van der Merwe, A., Gerber, A., Smuts, H. (2020). Guidelines for Conducting Design Science Research in Information Systems. In: Tait, B., Kroeze, J., Gruner, S. (eds) ICT Education. SACLA 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1136. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35629-3_11

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