Evolutionary Business Information Systems Perspectives and Challenges of an Emerging Class of Information Systems

• Published in: Business & information systems engineering Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 33 - 38
• Main Authors: Neumann, Gustaf, Sobernig, Stefan, Aram, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 01.02.2014; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis; Business; Business and Management; Business information; Case studies; Demand; Design; Design engineering; Evolutionary; Evolutionary design method; Flexibility; Information systems; IT in Business; Online instruction; Product lines; Research Notes; Software; Software development; Software engineering; Studies; Subject specialists; Systems engineering; Evolutionary business information systems; Pluralistic information systems research; Secondary design
• ISSN: 1867-0202; 2363-7005; 1867-0202
• DOI: 10.1007/s12599-013-0305-1

This article reflects on existing and emerging future challenges arising in the area of “evolutionary business information systems”, a class of systems that demand an evolutionary software development process and which support secondary design of various conceptual layers. We place both existing contributions and future research opportunities in context by referring to an idealized, preliminary system architecture. Finally, we emphasize our pluralistic perspective on the research object and the resulting need for methodological flexibility in the sense of interdisciplinary configurations of research methods.