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Special Interest Group on Management 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
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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