Well-documented motivation from the real world for the problem you select
Explanation of why the problem is appropriate to study in the context of the literature reviews on IS
Statement of research question
Background Literature
Overview of three (?) relevant areas of theory that apply to your problem
Survey subsections
Discussion of relevant literature #1
Discussion of relevant literature #2
Discussion of relevant literature #3
Your findings as a synthesis of the literature
Model Development
Modeling preliminaries and considerations
Conceptual / empirical / exploratory / analytical model development
Model hypotheses
Research Methods
General rationale/description of method
Description of relevant research design (data, sampling, unit of analysis, respondent, operationalization, descriptives)
Analysis
Approach
Assumptions
Validation
Hypotheses support
Discussion
Discussion of findings and contributions (Potential Findings and Outcomes of the Research)
Assessment of relevance to IS research audience and managerial audience (It is critical to close the loop between your motivation and theory at the front end to your pragmatic and theoretical contributions at the back-end)