Workshop on Design Science Research

Registration deadline: 25 May. 

• Sign up by accepting the calendar invitation.
• Please only sign up if you intend to participate.
• External participants can sign up by email to Sanne.

Hosts: 
Lise Tordrup and Lars Kristian Hansen.

Details:
The day will contain three 1½ hour sessions over the course of a full day. The three sessions are titled:

• Part 1: Foundations of Design Science Research (DSR)
• Part 2: Dual Transition research examples using DSR
• Part 3: Designing and conducting evaluations in DSR using MEDS 

During the workshop sessions, the organisers will present materials and engage the attendees in discussion about important concepts, trends and techniques. 

Part 1: 
The first session will introduce the attendees to the DSR research paradigm and to various concepts, issues, and current trends in DSR, in order to create a coherent perspective on DSR and its relationship to other research paradigms. The latter two sessions will each introduce techniques developed by the presenters: 

Part 2:
The Dual Transition is about the Green Transition and the Digital (transformation) Transition happening in parallel. This session will include:

• Design principles for a transformation of a Bank in Denmark. “A Successful Finance-Sector Case of Digital Transformation: Eliciting Four Design Principles”
• Baskerville, R., & Pries-Heje, J. (2025). Sustainability design principles: The greening of an organization. HICSS, January 2025
• Pries-Heje, J., Baskerville, R., & Hansen, M. R. P. (2025). Continuous Digital Transformation: A Confluence Between a Malleable Organization and Constantly Emerging Digitalization. ICIS 2025, Nashville, USA, December 2025.
• “Build and Learn” is the quick way to describe DSR. However, many people ignore the learning part; the evaluation. In this third part that is our focus.
• Venable, J., Pries-Heje, J., & Baskerville, R. (2016). FEDS: a framework for evaluation in design science research. European journal of information systems, 25(1), 77-89.
• Baskerville, R., Pries-Heje, J., & Venable, J. R. (2026). MEDS: Methodology for Evaluation in Design Science. European Journal of Information Systems, 1-18.

Part 3:
When covering the applied techniques, both to further attendees’ learning and to develop their research, attendees will be invited to apply the techniques to their own ongoing, planned, or potential DSR research projects. Richard and Jan will be on hand to assist participants in planning their research and answering questions about the application of the techniques to the participants’ own research.

Schedule