Last modified: 2019-07-26
Abstract
Students in various business curriculums routinely take an introductory course in information systems, in which they are exposed to the concept of designing and building a working information system. As such, the course seeks to convey the practical approach to developing a new or improved information system. The information systems discipline additionally pursues research to push the boundaries of knowledge, as is common to all academic disciplines. Within these introductory courses, however, the instructor should keep students focused on the former, the practical endeavor, and not the latter, the advancement of the frontiers of the discipline. To that end, this paper suggests a focus on defining the former as method and the latter as methodology.
Keywords: systems development, method, methodology, MIS