Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1-2005

Abstract

A guiding premise of academic scholarship is that knowledge gained from first-hand research experience is disseminated to students via the classroom. However, that valuable connection is lost when professors are not researching what they teach. In this paper, we explore issues of mismatch between teaching and research in the Information Systems (IS) discipline. Specifically, while systems analysis and design (SA&D) is an integral topic in IS curricula, this topic is the research specialty of few IS professors. This situation is reflected by the low number of research publications in this area; particularly in the leading mainstream IS journals. We characterize the gap between teaching and research in SA&D, offer possible explanations for this gap, suggest avenues to better understand and enhance SA&D research via the design science paradigm, list a number of areas in SA&D in which there is ample need and opportunity for high quality research, and show through an example how a research mindset can be incorporated in a graduate level SA&D course.

Keywords

systems analysis and design, IS research, IS teaching, design science

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Areas of Excellence

Digital transformation

Publication

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volume

15

First Page

478

Last Page

493

ISSN

1529-3181

Identifier

10.17705/1CAIS.01527

Publisher

Association for Information Systems

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.01527

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