Design Science: Perspectives from Europe [electronic resource] : European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2013, Dublin, Ireland, November 21-22, 2013. Revised Selected Papers / edited by Markus Helfert, Brian Donnellan, Jim Kenneally.

Two hurdles to take for maximum impact of design science research in the IS-field -- Privacy and accountability in online communities: towards a theory of scrutiny -- An approach for reflectively discovering and synthesizing design knowledge for situated artifacts: the case of the early warning score chart -- Design thinking and evaluation using an ontology -- Applying design thinking throughout the product lifecycle in Dell Inc -- Sustainable connected cities: vision and blueprint towards managing IT for city prosperity and sustainability -- Solution prototyping with design thinking – social media for SAP store: a case study -- Business process modelling in design science paradigm -- Sustaining IT usefulness – re-defining end users’ role as contextual designers -- Evaluating design science outputs – the case of enterprise architecture business value assessments.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2013 held in Dublin, Ireland, in November 2013. The 9 papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers deal with various topics in the design science research.