To summarize, pilot projects are a successfully employable method to generate first-hand knowledge on the design of innovative information systems, enabling IS researchers to lead practice with socio-technical innovations. By generating rich knowledge on integrated technical, organisational and service-related design for particular domains of IS applications they incorporate the idea of IS as a design science. Furthermore, they can serve as a backdrop to develop generic IS frameworks or theories. They therefore prove to be a valuable approach for IS research.     «

To summarize, pilot projects are a successfully employable method to generate first-hand knowledge on the design of innovative information systems, enabling IS researchers to lead practice with socio-technical innovations. By generating rich knowledge on integrated technical, organisational and service-related design for particular domains of IS applications they incorporate the idea of IS as a design science. Furthermore, they can serve as a backdrop to develop generic IS frameworks or theories...     »