Midi de la recherche SIO avec Jan vom Brocke

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Le Département de systèmes d’information organisationnels vous invite à une présentation du professeur Jan vom Brocke sur sa recherche Expanding the Scope of IS Research Impact: A Framework and Guidelines. Une boîte à lunch sera offerte gratuitement aux personnes présentes.

La présentation se déroulera en anglais.

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Résumé

Expanding the Scope of IS Research Impact: A Framework and Guidelines

Information systems research has always had the potential to matter beyond the academy — to change how organizations operate, how policies are designed, and how societies navigate the digital age. Yet translating that potential into demonstrable impact remains one of the discipline’s most persistent challenges.

In this talk, Jan vom Brocke presents a framework and practical guidelines for IS researchers seeking to plan, deliver, measure, and communicate research impact across three domains: academia, business, and society. Drawing on a range of national impact assessment frameworks and award-winning IS research, I map the diverse pathways through which IS scholarship creates real-world value — from shaping platform governance to informing public regulation to improving lives in resource-constrained environments.

The talk introduces five actionable guidelines: specifying impact objectives, applying impact-sensitive research methods, assessing a wide range of impact criteria, maintaining an ongoing impact dialogue with partners, and building institutional capacity for impact. Together, these guidelines offer a structured yet adaptive approach to embedding impact thinking from the very inception of a research program.

At a moment when publication-based metrics are under increasing scrutiny, and when the societal stakes of digital technology have never been higher, the talk argues that broadening our understanding of research impact is not merely an institutional obligation — it is an opportunity to make IS scholarship more meaningful, more credible, and more consequential.