Designing the Information Systems Artefact

Robert Winter is a full professor of Business & Information Systems Engineering and the director of HSG’s Institute for Information Systems and Digital Business at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. He is also founding director of HSG’s Executive MBA program in Business Engineering. Having been vice editor-in-chief of the Business & Information Systems Engineering journal and senior editor of the European Journal of Information Systems, he currently serves on the editorial board of MIS Quarterly Executive. His research interests include design science research methodology and all aspects of enterprise-level IS research, such as enterprise architecture management, design and governance of digital platforms, corporate data management, and design and governance of enterprise transformation

• Typology of IS Artefacts - Providing an Organizing Foundation for Design Science Research Outcomes.- The Architecture of Project Design Knowledge in Design Science Research.- Abstraction and Abstraction Levels in Design Science Research.- Collaborative Evolution of the IS Artefact - Negotiating Research/Practice Tensions.- Function-Construction Patterns for Designing IS Artefacts.