Management Science and Information Systems' Seminar（2017-06）

Topic: Population Targeted Requirements Acquisition

Speaker: Ken Peffers, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

Time: Wednesday, May 17, 15:00-16:30 p.m

Place: Room K02, Guanghua Building 2

Abstract:

Design Science Research is quickly becoming a very important research paradigm in the information systems (IS) domain, along with economics and behavioral science. Indeed, it should be so, for the design and implementation of applications, systems, and methods to enhance organizational performance and to create new products and service are at the very center of IS practice and are its raison d'être.

Here we use design science research methodology and our experience in five development projects to design principles for selecting or adapting requirements acquisition (RA) methods for use with stakeholder populations. IS literature has not systematically focused on the adaption of RA methods for particular stakeholder populations. An RA methodology was designed to target specific stakeholder populations to define functional requirements for new IS. Five reference theories: personal construct theory, theory of disability, diffusion of innovations, social actor theory, and media richness and information synchronicity theory, support the design for the methodology. The methodology was evaluated iteratively in five case studies involving more than 200 participants in four countries and three continents.

Introduction:

Ken Peffers (Phd, Purdue 1991) is Professor of MIS, Lee School of Business, University of Nevada Las Vegas. His research has followed three broad themes: evaluating value and strategy in IT investments, research methodology and practice, and designed requirements engineering methodology, the subject of much of his recent work. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Technology Theory & Application, now a publication of the AIS. A theme of his research addressed requirements acquisition problems with hard-to-reach subjects. This led to a study of design science research methodology and to the development of new RA methods. Prof. Peffers’s 2007-8 paper in JMIS, “A Design Science Research Methodology for Information Systems Research”, has been cited more than any other paper in information systems published since its print date (March 2008), according to Google Scholar; cited 2655 times as of April, 4, 2017, including the conference version. See his Google Scholar profile at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zwOdzCgAAAAJ&hl=en

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