Conducting and publishing design science research

Aken, Joan van; Chandrasekaran, Aravind; Halman, Joop

doi:10.1016/j.jom.2016.06.004

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“…DSR aims at developing a solution that solves a practical problem and provides contributions to the associated theoretical knowledge [46]. The innovative solution, called artefact, is usually developed in cycles of evaluation and redesign [47]. The artefact may include constructs, models, methods and instantiations [48].…”

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Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol

Tzortzopoulos

Li²,

Soliman-Junior

et al. 2019

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The UK government made significant commitments to upgrading the energy efficiency of seven million British homes by 2020, aiming at reducing carbon emissions and addressing fuel poverty. One alternative to achieve better energy performance in existing houses is retrofit. However, there are difficulties associated with retrofitting social housing. It is currently challenging to compare scenarios (retrofit options) considering costs, potential energy efficiency gains, and at the same time minimising disruption to users. This paper presents a Building Information Modelling (BIM) protocol aimed to support decision making by social housing owners. It adopts BIM to simulate alternative retrofit options, considering: (a) potential reductions in energy consumption, (b) 4D BIM for retrofit planning and reduction of users’ disruption and (c) simulation of costs. A what-if scenario matrix is proposed to support decision making in the selection of social housing retrofit solutions, according to client and users’ needs. A case study of the retrofit of a mid-terrace house is presented to demonstrate the workflow. The main output of the work is the BIM protocol, which can support client decision making in diverse social housing retrofit projects, considering all three elements (energy simulation, planning for reduced disruption and cost estimation) in an integrated fashion. Such an integrated approach enables clients to make better informed decisions considering diverse social housing retrofit options through a simple process using readily available BIM technology.

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“…The research was divided into four stages, following the steps suggested for DSR [47]: (a) define the problem; (b) plan the intervention; (c) implement the intervention and (d) evaluate it. As shown in Figure 2, the development of the BIM protocol was highly iterative, as is typical of DSR projects.…”

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Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol

Tzortzopoulos

Li²,

Soliman-Junior

et al. 2019

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“…Research on such marketing communication and branding instruments designed by humans, such as in advertising research, is "a design science, aiming to generate a body of knowledge on how to create, improve, orchestrate, and manage specific types of marketing instruments" (Henseler, 2017a, p. 178). Design science research itself is a research strategy that aims to create knowledge that can be used to design and implement actions, processes or systems to achieve desired outcomes in practice (van Aken et al, 2016). Based on a process comprising different steps, such as problem identification and exploration, the search for initial solutions, and the own development of a solution (Holmström et al, 2009;G.…”

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“…Answering these questions with respect to these carefully designed physical artifacts can be seen as the last, crucial step of the design science research process: testing and evaluating whether a design or artifact actually 'works', i.e. whether it is effective in solving a problem (van Aken, Chandrasekaran, & Halman, 2016). Furthermore, understanding 'how' it works subsequently allows for further improvements of the design and its implementation (Holmström, Ketokivi, & Hameri, 2009;G.…”

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Brand Worlds in Industrial Marketing

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In this environment, where reliability, functionality, and the quality of products are now assumed as minimum requirements (Lynch & de Chernatony, 2007), even in the industrial field branding may represent one of the last means by which companies can create a sustainable competitive advantage (Ohnemus, 2009). Therefore, many industrial companies invest in their brands, and in fact some of the most valuable brands today are B2B brands, such as GE, Cisco, or IBM (Interbrand, 2018). Yet, B2B branding research is still considered relatively novel (B.

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Making resilience explicit in FRAM: Shedding light on desired outcomes

Bueno

Wachs

Saurin

et al. 2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Resilience plays a key role in desired outcomes of socio‐technical systems. However, the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM), which has been the main modeling tool in light of resilience engineering, does not make explicit the role of resilience. This paper addresses this gap by proposing new procedures for the development of FRAM models of desired outcomes. They are: (i) the active search for functions that display resilient performance; (ii) the assessment of the frequency at which the function output is expected to occur at the same way as it occurred in the desired outcome – frequent unwanted variabilities that occur despite desired outcomes tend to be hidden; (iii) understanding of the reasons for desired outcomes based on the analysis of the logical associations between each function, the abilities of resilient systems and guidelines for coping with complexity; and (iv) the proposal of recommendations for sustaining the observed successful performance. Two case studies of events with desired outcomes in an intensive care unit illustrate the applicability of the proposal. The proposal is expected to be useful for making systems more resilient to everyday work, in which vulnerabilities might be hidden by desired outcomes.

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Conducting and publishing design science research

Cited by 231 publications

References 25 publications

Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol

Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol

Brand Worlds in Industrial Marketing

Making resilience explicit in FRAM: Shedding light on desired outcomes

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