Consolidating existing knowledge in Design Science this book proposes a new research method to
aid the exploration of design and problem solving within business science and technology. It
seeks to overcome a dichotomy that exists in the field between theory and practice to enable
researches to find solutions to problems rather than focusing on the explanation and
exploration of the problems themselves.Currently researches concentrate on to describing
exploring explaining and predicting phenomena and little attention is devoted to prescribing
solutions. Herbert Simon proposes the need to develop a Science of the Artificial (Design
Science) arguing that our reality is much more artificial than natural. However the research
conducted on the Design Science premises has so far been scattered and erratic in different
fields of research such as management systems information and engineering. This book aims to
address this issue by bringing these fields together and emphasising the need for
solutions.This book provides a valuable resource to students and researchers of research
methods information systems management and management science and production and operations
management.
