EII Research Network Seminar

Design Science Research in Information Systems: Tri-Cycles and Hula
Hoops

Speaker:        Professor Alan R. Hevner
                Professor and Eminent Scholar
                Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Dist. Technology
                Information Systems and Decision Sciences
                College of Business, University of South Florida

Time:           Tuesday 30 September 2008, 4-5pm

Location:       The University of Sydney, School of IT Building
                Lecture Theatre (Room 123), Level 1

ABSTRACT
Design science research seeks to extend the boundaries of human and
organizational capabilities by creating new and innovative artifacts. In
this presentation, I will describe the performance of design research in
Information Systems via a concise conceptual framework and clear
guidelines for understanding, executing, and evaluating the research. I
then analyze design science research as an embodiment of three closely
related cycles of activities - the Relevance Cycle, the Rigor Cycle, and
the central Design Cycle. The recognition of these three cycles in a
research project clearly positions and differentiates design science
research from other research paradigms in the Information Systems field.
The presentation concludes with a discussion of several key issues
concerning Design Science research in IS - publication in top journals,
external funding, and academic value.

References
1.      Hevner, S. March, J. Park, and S. Ram, "Design Science Research
in Information Systems," Management Information Systems Quarterly, Vol.
28, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 75-105.
2.      A. Hevner, "A Three Cycle View of Design Science Research,"
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2007, pp.
87-92.

SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY
Alan R. Hevner is an Eminent Scholar and Professor in the Information
Systems and Decision Sciences Department in the College of Business at
the University of South Florida.  He holds the Citigroup/Hidden River
Chair of Distributed Technology.  Dr. Hevner's areas of research
interest include information systems development, software engineering,
distributed database systems, healthcare information systems, and
telemedicine.  He has published over 150 research papers on these topics
and has consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies.  Dr. Hevner
received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University.  He has
held faculty positions at the University of Maryland and the University
ofMinnesota.  Dr. Hevner is a member of ACM, IEEE, AIS, and INFORMS.  He
recently completed an assignment at the National Science Foundation as a
program manager in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(CISE) Directorate.


LOCATION DETAILS:
The School of Information Technologies is located in the new School of
IT Building (J12), 1 Cleveland Street at the eastern end of the
Darlington campus of the University of Sydney.