Engaging Practitioners in Digital Transformation Research Through Action Design Research

Action Design Research is recognized as a way of doing constructive research in close co-operation between practitioners and researchers. The method is based on the recognition that IS research always has a dual mission, namely to (a) add to existing theory, and (b) to produce knowledge to support IS practitioners in solving current and anticipated problems. We can achieve this by promoting research, which is based on existing problems in practical settings, aimed at improving the practice and solving problems through designing and implementing IT (or organizational) artefacts. Furthermore, the method supports continues engagement and mutual commitment between practitioners and researchers, which leads into better insights about the effects of the artefacts and their design decisions in organizations, thus allowing for different types of research and practitioner contributions. In this talk I will demonstrate this through examples of real-world digital transformation ADR projects. I claim that this is particularly useful technique for studying digital transformation, as this is a highly interwoven process of technological and organizational change and most of the changes occurring are hard to understand without engaging with actual practise and looking at the technology and the organization simultaneously.

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Matti Rossi is a professor of information systems at Aalto University School of Business. He is a past president of the Association for Information Systems and an AIS Fellow. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the University of Jyväskylä. He has worked as a visiting scholar at NYU Stern School of Business, a research fellow at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as a visiting assistant professor at Georgia State University, Atlanta and visiting researcher at Claremont Graduate University. His research papers have appeared in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of AIS, Information and Organization, Information and Management, and Information Systems, IEEE Software, and over sixty of them have appeared in conferences such as ICIS, HICSS and CAiSE.

He is the past editor in chief of Communications of the Association for Information Systems. He is currently senior editor for JIT and an editorial advisory board member for ISJ. He has been a senior editor at JAIS and Database for Advances in Information Systems and an associate editor for MIS Quarterly.

He was a co-chair of DESRIST 2007, 2008 and 2014 and program co-chair of DESRIST 2013 and DESRIST 2020, program co-chair for ECIS 2011 and 2016, organizing chair for IRIS 2004, organizing committee member and technology chair for ICIS’98 and minitrack chair for Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences 98 - 21.

He has been involved in the development of two research prototypes and further commercial products, which are sold by MetaCASE Consulting Plc., Jyväskylä, Finland. He has been a member of the board of publicly traded open source software developer QT Company Plc., chairman of the board of privately held Syncron Tech and MetaCASE Consulting Plc. He was the winner of the 2013 Millennium Distinction Award of Technology Academy of Finland for open source and data research.

He has been the principal investigator in several major research projects funded by the technological development center of Finland and Academy of Finland.

https://people.aalto.fi/matti.rossi

See: Sein, M., Henfridsson, O., Purao, S., Rossi, M., & Lindgren, R. (2011). Action Design Research. MIS Quarterly, 35(1), 37-56. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/vol35/iss1/5/

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