Survey 155.5 en qid code answer assessment_value sortorder language scale_id qid specialtype scale_id sqid language defaultvalue gid sid group_name group_order description language randomization_group grelevance During the last several decades, the IS discipline has been striving for being recognized as an academic discipline. A plethora of paradigms, theories, models, and methods have been proposed since then; however, no coherent theoretical-methodological IS foundation has been established yet. The Challenge is to do exactly this.

 

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]]> IS research has changed significantly since the discipline emerged. The initial rather technical focus has widened. IS research topics range from a very technical IT perspective over organizational issues right up to highly interdisciplinary topics. IS teaching, however, is often enrooted in the IS origins and insufficiently aligned with the current research culture. The challenge is not to include every new technology and IS research topic into teaching. This would lead to much disturbance and low sustainability and would only confuse students. The challenge is rather to establish means and structures that continuously identify those parts of IS research that are universal and sustainable and transfer them into IS teaching.

 

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]]> A lot of IS research lost relevance. It will be vital for the IS community, however, to regain relevance. Time is right to do so, since our economy and society is facing global challenges that IS can contribute to as a problem solver.

 

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]]> When the discipline emerged it had a strong relation to computer science, then new lenses have been provided from a sociological, and psychological perspective. The challenge is to consider both perspectives in a single angle.

 

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]]> E.g., coming to terms with how design science should be conducted or evaluated (high quality standards).

 

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]]> IS (and also Computer Science) rely on several major methodological approaches: i) logics/mathematic (inference and deduction); ii) natural science with hypothesis formulation and testing; iii) design science and engineering. And in some cases also qualitative views need to be integrated (e.g., in case studies, hypothesis formulation, framework developments). One needs to know when to apply which method (and how); and also this needs in-depth knowledge of the different views. Very often they all need to be applied.

 

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]]> To become better social scientists, and more aware of important debates in the philosophy of social science. Due to the technical backgrounds of a lot of IS students, levels of social science knowledge can often be poor. The challenge is to become less obsessed with trying to establish the distinctiveness of the IS 'discipline' (a political project) and embrace other areas more openly (like Science and Technology Studies, for example).

 

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]]> By means of cloud computing and virtualization users and businesses should be provided with natural, safe, responsive and self-adaptive means of ubiquitous access to IS services by use of sensors, blend of internal and external systems as well as broadband ICT superconnectivity.

 

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]]> Technologies are ubiquitous. A number of technological systems for managing information are available. Usually, such IS are specialized by certain criteria or type, e.g., IS for managing learning processes, financial investments, healthcare information, synchronous and asynchronous communications, and others.

The challenge is to integrate the very high number of different kinds of IS in order to provide individuals (citizens) with a unique “virtual space” where, through single sign-on, they can find all information related to them. In other words, instead of using many applications and devices we may want to use one single application that gives us access to our information anytime, any device, anywhere, anyhow, in a secure manner.

 

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]]> The widespread adoption of ICT technologies has contributed to outline two different generations called sometimes digital natives or digital immigrants, other times X and Y generations. Evidences testify that these generations deeply differ in the way they process information and in the way they use ICT. These differences are actually emerging in organizational contexts where web 2.0 technologies and social networks are being more and more introduced to let digital natives work in a more motivating environment. This aspect has impact on IS design, implementation, use, appropriation, and training. As technology evolves at high speed, different generations of technologies are expected to appear in the future. As a consequence, different generations of digital natives can emerge. This issue is then expected to replicate in the future opposing these different generations in the same organizational work environments.

 

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]]> This comprises methods for synchronizing, integrating and translating coding systems, be it natural language or structured data. One example is the description of some entity in a standard way, e.g., in the field of Medical Informatics. The entity to be described here is the human body and health: “A complete computer-based patient record that could serve as regional/national/multinational resource and a format to allow exchange of records between systems” (Sittig, 1994, 413). Further, flawless automatic translation between two full-scale traditional languages would be a major triumph. However, how can we define that translation is flawless enough?

 

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]]> Conceptual modelling facilitates the communication between different stakeholders. The task of conceptual modelling is both error prone and time consuming. Myriads of heterogeneous modelling techniques exist. They are being used on different levels of abstraction for different purposes (from natural language to formal UML Models) by different stakeholders (Managers, Process Designers, Workflow Modelers, IS Developers, Legal Experts, Common employees). Incomprehensible, complex, and badly aligned information models are the result. Solving these problems will lead to a better communication among stakeholders, thus simplifying the alignment of organizational objectives with IT.

 

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]]> At the moment, various R&D groups and entire organizations work on model-driven techniques to automate certain steps of the information systems development life cycle. In the last decade, OMG has also proposed its vision on this subject – it was called MDA (Model-Driven Architecture). However, up to now one may still call it a “vision” – as of yet, no one has proposed a practical method (and its implementation)  to support the full-scale automated ISD life cycle (“from business level models to working code models”).

 

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]]> Several of the most successful applications in the B2C e-commerce arena (as a major “application” field of IS research) have little to do with work and the so-called “lean-forward” concentrated mode. They rather support the relaxed and also fun mode – and this is not only related with gaming. This raises also a challenge w.r.t. to innovation research – many innovation proposals need to start with a problem to be solved, e.g. which problem is solved by twitter?

 

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]]> In IS (in contrast to maybe other sciences) it is well acknowledged that Information Systems are man-machine systems. This corresponds to the view that problem solving needs and is a mix of human as well as machine problem solving capacities. This is also coherent with new developments such as social computing (and crowd sourcing), where problem solving tasks are split among humans and machines. This raises challenges regarding this “optimal” split, machine and human readable service descriptions (when services are shared), or also w.r.t. to the computational power of such systems.

 

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]]> The Web is increasingly becoming a mirror of the world – reflecting the static “knowledge” as well as the dynamic behavior of users (as well as machines). This huge amount of information can be used by individuals and companies – needing (semi) automatic tools for interpretation of data, and putting also emphasis on privacy issues. And this data together with proper tools will also change social sciences.

 

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]]> Establishing an effective flow of information related to the different phases of emergency management poses a major challenge to the stakeholders involved. The diffusion of mobile technologies, e-collaboration solutions and social media presents new opportunities for community involvement, which also represents new challenges for information management. This objective thus focuses on establishing ICT support for effective sharing and managing of information throughout the phases of emergency management.

 

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]]> Utilizing the potential of IS to develop energy effective systems in different areas of society like house building, traffic, etc. This challenge thus goes beyond the focus on the environmental issues of IT industry ("Green IT") itself, and takes into account the potential represented by embedded sensors and the Internet of Things.

 

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]]> The continuous development of communication media poses new challenges for effective collaboration and learning in industry and academia. The new generations of students and employees bring with them new use patterns from various social media, that differ radically from the senior workforce. There is a need to build knowledge on how we can capitalize on these evolving media repertoires for enhancing work and education.

 

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]]> Collective consciousness rising seeks for full use of people's intellectual potential. IS shall supervise how this latent force drives (1) technological convergence towards persuasive systems against brain illnesses (e.g. stroke, depression, addiction), (2) crowd sourcing to exploit collective intelligence, (3) social business models to fight technological exclusion.

 

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]]> The past decades have been characterized by a trend towards smaller devices showing a certain degree of interoperability (see the app development, for example). The future is to have such system embedded in real-life environment and, nevertheless, interacting with each other. Sensor networks for smarter homes, are one example.

 

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Please choose those three Grand Challenges from the list that are in your opinion the most important ones.

The list only contains issues that you marked as Grand Challenges previously. All other issues are either omitted or greyed out.

If there are only three or less challenges in the list then please just put them into an order.

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thank you for contributing to a delphi study of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). The study aims to find and to rank the most important challenges for IS research from an European perspective.

 

Therefore, you will be presented with 21 issues that were elaborated in a delphi-based expert survey by a group of 15 established IS researchers from several European member states and that were rated by these experts as "Grand Challenges". You will be asked to rate these challenges considering different aspects.

 

The pretest showed that the survey will take approximately 25 minutes. Be assured that your answers will be treated confidentially. You will have the possibility to give comments and remarks at the end of the survey.

 

We raffle three Amazon vouchers (50€ each) among those participants that participate in all delphi rounds of the survey (appr. 2-3 rounds)!

 

Best regards on behalf of the Steering committee,

Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker

 

Steering Committee:

Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker, University of Münster, Germany
Prof. Dr.-ing. Bjørn Erik Munkvold, University of Agder, Norway
Prof. Dr. Reima Suomi, University of Turku, Finland
Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Prof. Dr. Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Prof. Dr. Marco De Marco, University of Milan, Italy

 

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As told before, we raffle three Amazon vouchers (50€ each) among those participants that participate in all delphi rounds of this survey (appr. 2-3 rounds)! So stay tuned for the invitation to the next round!

 

Best regards on behalf of the Steering Committee,

Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker

 

Steering committee:

Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker, University of Münster, Germany
Prof. Dr.-ing. Bjørn Erik Munkvold, University of Agder, Norway
Prof. Dr. Reima Suomi, University of Turku, Finland
Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Prof. Dr. Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Prof. Dr. Marco De Marco, University of Milan, Italy

 

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