Special Interest Group onManagement Information Systems

Viability Review

Janice Sipior, Chair

SGB Meeting, March 7, 2011, New York

Financial Status

• Healthy fund balance of $249K– Steady growth over past several years

– Solid Digital Library revenues

• Fiscally conservative• Support students and outreach

– Initiated student travel support to Doctoral Consortium participants at our annual conference

– Initiated support for Doctoral Consortium

– Support some major MIS conferences:• International Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)• European Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

Membership Benefits

• Publication – The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, a peer-reviewed

quarterly publication

• Conference– Annual Computer Personnel Research (CPR) Conference

• Awards– Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year Award

– Doctoral Dissertation Award

• Outreach– Doctoral Consortium attendee travel support

• Membership– Almost 500 members, but slowly declining– 2+ year retention is 79.95%– 1st year retention is 41.0%

Goal #1: Newsletter Quality

• The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems – Data Base, for short

• Quarterly newsletter publishing peer-reviewed research in MIS• Since 1961, has been highly regarded• Portal: http://the-database.org• Online submission system initiated in 2007:

http://www.editorialmanager.com/sigmisdb• Royalties from ProQuest• Increased international content• Editor & Global Co-Editor since January 2007

– 3 year term, with renewable 2 years, expires at the end of 2011

– RFP disseminated

– Announcement of new editor in early September

Goal #2: Conference Quality

• Computer Personnel Research (ACM-SIGMIS CPR) Conference – Annual conference held in the spring

– Attendance numbers about 50• Small, but strong core of participants• Quality content

– Initiated the Doctoral Consortium in 2006

– Conference Chairs secured for:• 2011 – San Antonio, TX USA• 2012 – Milwaukee, WI USA• 2013 – Cincinnati, OH USA

• Also actively support major MIS conferences:– European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)

– International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)• Sponsor Doctoral Dissertation Award • Annual networking reception

Goal #3: Enhance Visibility

• Outreach– Annual networking reception at the major MIS conference: ICIS

– Attract members• Student travel support

– Develop future leadership• Recruit conference committee members

– IFIP representative• Promote involvement among the membership of SIGMIS & IFIP

• Planned awards and recognition– Outstanding Data Base paper of the year award

– Most influential paper award

• Curriculum efforts– Member of the Joint IS 2010 Curriculum Task Force

• SIGMIS website needs an update