The Information Systems Practice Journal (ISPJ) has been established in order to promote the practice of Information Systems (IS), and to establish a new venue for researchers and practitioners to engage in an intellectual conversation. We envisage that the journal will become a key player in a new, global information systems practice community. The journal aims to publish studies that incorporate novel insights or artefacts that inform and are relevant to IS practitioners, academics who engage with IS practitioners and readers who wish to learn how IS makes a difference in the world of practice. The ISPJ targets submissions that examine sociotechnical phenomena, i.e. where people, technology, culture, information, processes, systems and structures intersect. The journal will not publish purely technical studies, case descriptions of technologies that lack a social or application context, general business research, or research that is otherwise tangentially related to IS. The design, use, deployment, maintenance, management, strategy and/or implications of a physical or digital IS artifact need to be central to the contribution. IS should thus be central to a problem in practice that is investigated, and the study should provide actionable and novel recommendations for practice. Authors should investigate problems that originate from a practical issue confronted in the design, use, deployment, management, maintenance and strategy of IS. The research should lead to actionable, prescriptive recommendations relevant to practitioners.

Authors may cite both academic and practitioner literature and even use theory as a basis for framing their research. However, a theoretical contribution is not expected. The authors of papers involving primary data collection must document how they collected and analysed data. Papers submitted for consideration to the ISPJ should be written for practitioners in a manner that is readily accessible and consumable by the practitioner community. Authors may want to recommend potential directions for future academic and practitioner research.