Especially in early phases of digital business innovation endeavors, collaborative design sessions are critical for creating a shared understanding, aligning diverse perspectives and objectives, and making fundamental design decisions. As knowledge about the characteristics of these sessions is scarce, existing support artefacts (e. g., methods, techniques, or software tools) cannot be easily selected, let alone tailored to the specific characteristics of such a session resulting in only generic guidance and missed effectivity potentials. This paper reports intermediate results of a design science research project aimed at developing tailored support artefacts for such sessions. As a foundation to achieve higher effectivity, a theory-informed conceptual model is proposed from which the classification dimensions for collaborative design sessions are derived. Classification dimensions focus on involved stakeholders, topics, i.e., compositions of focal entity types, and information characteristics derived from abstraction principles. Based on interviews and surveys, fifteen session types along four phases are identified. A concrete plan for future research is provided to investigate the explored session types and develop tailored support artefacts for them.
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Book title
Informing Possible Future Worlds: Essays in Honour of Ulrich Frank