Yves Pigneur

Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y. (2011) Design Support Systems for Strategic Management Objects: a Research Agenda (draft)

ABSTRACT
Information Systems (IS) research has substantially contributed to improving decision-making and its support in organizations. In this paper we argue that IS research can make similar contributions in the field of designing organizational strategies by investigating the use of Design Support Systems for Strategic Management Objects. We propose three research areas that build on each other. Firstly, the identification and formalization of the core constructs and models of interest related to the design and analysis of strategic business issues. Secondly, the exploration of how design techniques and tools might contribute to improving the design of answers and alternatives to strategic business questions. Thirdly, the research of ’Design’ Support Systems assisting in the process of designing Strategic Management Objects.

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See Alex’s post (here).

Position paper with Alexander Osterwalder
@ “Managing + Designing – An International Working Conference”, Cleveland, June 2010

How to bring the ideas and methods of design into management education?

Two courses have been introduced in our Management School at undergraduate and graduate levels. The course is based on the ’Managing as Designing’ paradigm and integrates principles suggested by the design thinking, applied to business service design. The course introduces concepts, frameworks, and tools for designing new ’front stage’ services, ’back stage’ processes, and business models. Learning will be accomplished through lectures, readings, case studies, and group co-design sessions.

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A short video on research in our Information Systems Institute (ISI) of HEC Lausanne …

video (by swisslearn.org)

[from Alex's blog]
A business model is nothing else than a representation of how an organization makes (or intends to make) money. This can be nicely described through the 9 building blocks illustrated in the graphic below, which we call “business model canvas”.

The business model topic is very popular among business people today because in various industries we can see a proliferation of new and innovative business models (i.e. new ways of making money). In several industries new business models are threatening or even replacing established companies and conventional ways of doing business. Just have a look at the music or airline industry.

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A couple of ideas on design and on the so-called “Managing as designing” proposed by Dick Bolland and Franck Collopy (Case Western Reserve University), initially prepared for an Alliance carrefour on co-design.

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