Van der Merwe, AltaGerber, Aurona JacobaSmuts, Hanlie2020-03-272020-03-272020Van der Merwe A., Gerber A., Smuts H. (2020) Guidelines for Conducting Design Science Research in Information Systems. In: Tait B., Kroeze J., Gruner S. (eds) ICT Education. SACLA 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1136. Springer, Cham.1865-092910.1007/978-3-030-35629-3_11http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73848Information Systems (IS) as a discipline is still young and is continuously involved in building its own research knowledge base. Design Science Research (DSR) in IS is a research strategy for design that has emerged in the last 16 years. Junior IS researchers are often lost when they start with a project in DSR. We identified a need for a set of guidelines with supporting reference literature that can assist such novice adopters of DSR. We identified major themes relevant to DSR and proposed a set of six guidelines for the novice researcher supported with references summaries of seminal works from the IS DSR literature. We believe that someone new to the field can use these guidelines to prepare him/herself to embark on a DSR study.en© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. The original publication is available at : http://www.springer.comseries/7899.Information systems (IS)Design science research (DSR)Postgraduate studentsGuidelinesDesign science guidelinesDesign science processDesignArtefactMethodology for design sciencePostprint Article