What I’m saying about design science is nothing new.  I refer you to Herbert Simon, whom many of us know for originating the well known concept of “satisficing,” for authoring the book Administrative Behavior, and for winning the Nobel prize for economics in 1978.  Simon explained design science in his book The Sciences of the Artificial, first published in 1969.  The idea of design science also appears in an article by Sal March – a professor at the University of Minnesota and former Editor in Chief of Computing Surveys.  He co-authored the article with and Gerald Smith.  The article is, “Design and Natural Science Research on Information Technology” in the journal Decision Support Systems.  Like the systems approach, design science is an old lesson just waiting for us to apply it.