An information systems design product theory for the class of integrated requirements and release management systems

Käkölä, Timo; Koivulahti-Ojala, Mervi; Liimatainen, Jani

doi:10.1002/smr.492

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“…It is a problem that can be approached with an information systems design product theory (Käkölä et al, 2011). The author starts by identifying the challenges to the traditional Management Information System (MIS).…”

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Design Science for Business Management

Ekwaro-Osire

2013

Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science

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This issue of the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science explores the connection between design science and business management. The relationship may not be obvious since it is rather subtle in some instances. However, the nature of problems that design science is confronted with is analogous to the nature of problems business management tackles. Both design science and business management, are concerned with open ended solutions rather than closed solutions and one correct answer. Also, both disciplines' approach to finding solutions is process oriented. The process may involve taking two steps forward and, after finding the outcome not satisfactory, taking one step back -simply because there may be not just one correct answer but rather several answers differing in quality. Creativity and the selection of one of a variety of options constitute the essence of product design; consequently, exploring the connection between design science and business management can benefit both of these complex disciplines and also enhance the innovation of organizations.The first paper in this issue is entitled "Towards Formalizing and Formulating the Successful Organizational Innovation Process." The authors, while pointing out the importance of innovation as the main factor of successful organization, present the application of a design model to a model for innovation processes. The model is able to separate two aspects of innovation, namely, the innovation process and the organizational innovative behaviour. Furthermore, the Axiomatic Theory of Design Modelling is used to analyse the organizational innovation process from a design point of view. The paper demonstrates clearly that strategic planning methods (business management) are similar to product design methods. At Concordia University in Montreal, it was shown that Design Thinking can be used as a basis for organizational innovation change (de Guerre et al., 2013). The organization on which the study was performed was the School of Extended Learning. The change process that resulted had four phases, namely, Connect, Innovate, Design, and Implement. The resulting organization (School of Extended Learning) had innovation design and Design Thinking fused into the organizational infrastructure.The second paper, "Engineering Design as Hearing," uses the metaphor of "Hearing" to approach the teaching of design. The author presents the pedagogical challenges and opportunities related to the introduction of design into the engineering curricula, pointing out the differences between open-ended problem/solution sets (central to design) and closed problem/solution sets. By nature, the open-ended sets typical for design are more vague

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Design Science for Business Management

Ekwaro-Osire

2013

Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science

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Productisation: A review and research agenda

Härkönen

Haapasalo

Hänninen

2015

International Journal of Production Economics

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a b s t r a c tProductisation relates to the process of analysing a need, defining and combining suitable elements, tangible and/or intangible, into a product-like defined set of deliverables that is standardised, repeatable and comprehendible. This paper clarifies the concept of productisation by surveying the extant literature and reporting the origins, characteristics, benefits and features along with aiming to support future work. The analysed literature is categorised, its content is analysed, and the need for a clear framework is highlighted.The results indicate that productisation has a specific role in addressing the challenges of being able to describe and explain complex, often abstract offerings and producing them, involving activities both to ensure adequate standards and those activities leading to selling the products. A well productised product is easier to buy, sell and market, has stronger features and may enable benefits depending on the product type. Productisation has implications through having a complementary role amongst well established functions and in strengthening the linkage of market needs and engineering-oriented development. The concept requires further development. Potential future research directions are presented.

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Semantic interoperability for an integrated product development process: a systematic literature review

Szejka

Canciglieri

Panetto

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International Journal of Production Research

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Global competitiveness challenges manufacturing industry to rationalise different ways of bringing to the market new products in a short lead-time with competitive prices while ensuring higher quality levels and customisation. Industries need to effectively share heterogeneous information during Product Development Process (PDP) within and across their institutional boundaries to be competitive. However, problems with misinterpretation and mistakes have been identified during information exchange due to the semantic interoperability obstacles. Thus, this research proposes a systematic literature review to identify the main researches and the milestones reference works on semantic interoperability field. A rigorous methodology was conducted in different databases, covering the articles published in scientific journals from 2005 to 2015 as a preliminary study had indicated that the incidence of articles related to the subject was more frequent from the second half of the 2000s. The research structure consisted of four steps: Survey-searching, analysis and selection of recent researches; Categorization-categorization of the selected papers; References citation frequency analysis-the selected papers were analysed and the main researches and milestones references were identified; and Main researches critical analysisthe main researches were analysed for their contributions and limitations, their contributions and limitations, resulting in 14 selected scientific articles and 8 identified milestones references. It is evident that this field has interesting perspectives on future research opportunities on semantic interoperability of information issues across PDP, contributing to the new concepts of future factories.

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An information systems design product theory for the class of integrated requirements and release management systems

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Design Science for Business Management

Design Science for Business Management

Productisation: A review and research agenda

Semantic interoperability for an integrated product development process: a systematic literature review

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