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The First Phase of the Design Science Cycle: Exploration Phase

In: Design Science Methodology for the Management Sciences

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  • Raymond Opdenakker

    (Eindhoven University of Technology)

  • Carin Cuijpers

    (Bureau Lara)

Abstract

As we wrote in Sect. 3.2 , the design science cycle consists of five important steps to elaborate for designing a solution concept for a field problem which, in the end, can be evaluated to see to what extent that solution concept will solve the field problem and implemented. These five steps, or phases, are the exploration phase, the synthesize phase, the creation phase, the evaluation phase, and the implementation phase. In this chapter, we focus on the first phase of the design science cycle: the exploration phase.

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  • Raymond Opdenakker & Carin Cuijpers, 2025. "The First Phase of the Design Science Cycle: Exploration Phase," Springer Texts in Business and Economics, in: Design Science Methodology for the Management Sciences, chapter 4, pages 79-95, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sptchp:978-3-031-84853-7_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-84853-7_4
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