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SIGMIS Annual
Report
July 1997 - June
1998
Submitted by: George Kasper, SIGMIS Chair
Mission and
Overview
SIGMIS is the Special Interest Group on
management Information Systems of the ACM.
Members of SIGMIS are interested in
information systems and technologies for
management and the management of these
systems and technologies. SIGMIS was founded
in 1961 as the Special Interest Group on
Business Data Processing and later was known
as the Special Interest Group on Business
Information Technology. Today, SIGMIS has
close to thirteen hundred members throughout
the world, publishes DATA
BASE, cosponsors CIKM and other
conferences, promotes student achievement,
is a cofounder of ISWorld Net, and provides
other services to its members.
Summary of Recent
Accomplishments
During the last FY, some of the major events
and accomplishments of SIGMIS include:
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Becoming a regular cosponsor of the
Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management (CIKM) |
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Continuing to sponsor the
International Conference on
Information Systems (ICIS) Doctoral
Dissertation Paper Award |
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Being
invited to represent ACM as a member
of a select group to develop a model
MS in IS curriculum |
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Contributing to the KPMG Peat
Markwick Foundation program designed
to encourage and support minority
doctoral students majoring in MIS |
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Committing to expanding SIGMIS
member services by including a copy
of the CIKM proceedings |
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Having
the Association for Information
Systems agree to include DATA
BASE as
one of its member services |
Publications
SIGMIS publishes DATA
BASE, a quarterly journal devoted to
communicating advances in research and best
practice in MIS. Since its beginning in
1961, DATA
BASE has
been a highly regarded publication in the
MIS field. DATA
BASE is
received by more than fifteen hundred
subscribers and more than four hundred
libraries worldwide. DATA
BASE is
listed in Science Citation Index, Journal
Citations Report.During the past year,
Dr. Detmar Straub stepped down as Co-Editor
of DATA
BASE. He was replaced by Dr. Mark Keil.
Dr. Ephraim McLean remains Co-Editor of DATA
BASE.
Under the direction of Eph, Detmar, and
Mark, DATA
BASE issues
and page counts for the past year were:
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Vol. 28 |
No. 2 |
129
pages |
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Vol. 28 |
No. 3 |
78
pages |
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Vol. 28 |
No. 4 |
71
pages |
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Vol. 29 |
No. 1 |
85
pages |
A meeting of DATA
BASE Departmental
Editors was held in December 1997.
Abstracts of DATA
BASE articles
and other information on SIGMIS can now be
found on WWW Home Page http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~dbase.
SIGMIS is also a founding member of ISWORLD
Net, a WWW site for information on MIS
issues, practice, and education (http://www.isworld.org/isworld.html).
Conference
Activities
During the past year, SIGMIS was a cosponsor
of the ACM Multimedia Conference. Recently,
SIGMIS agreed to be a 50 percent cosponsor
of the Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management (CIKM), scheduled for
November 3-7, 1998 in Washington, D.C. More
details are available at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cikm/1998.
SIGMIS remains an active supporter of ICIS
and a nonvoting member of the Executive
Committee of ICIS (http://www.isworld.org/isworld.html).
Awards
Beginning with the 1995 ICIS, SIGMIS became
the sponsor of the ICIS MIS Doctoral
Dissertation Award. In 1995, this award was
given at ICIS to Sandra Slaughter for her
Ph.D. dissertation work, "Software
Development Practices and Software
Maintenance Performance: A Field Study, "
University of Minnesota, 1995. In 1996, the
award was given to Dr. Amarnath Prakash for
his paper titled "Reducing Cycle Time
Through Interorganizational Linkages: An
Empirical Study of the U.S. Apparel
Industry," which was based on his
dissertation work completed at the
University of Memphis. In 1997, the award
was given to Dr. Mayuram Krishnan for his
paper titled "Costs and Quality
Considerations in Software Product
Management," which was based on his
dissertation work completed at the
University of Michigan.A one-year
membership to SIGMIS is also awarded to all
forty of the Ph.D. students invited to
participate in the annual ICIS Doctoral
Consortium. At least half of these students
are from non-North American Universities.
Curriculum
Development
In 1998, SIGMIS joined representatives of
the Association for Information Technology
Professionals (AITP) and the Association for
Information Systems (AIS) to develop a model
curriculum for masters education in
information systems. A draft has been
produced and is currently being circulated
for comment and revision. A copy of the
draft can be found athttp://cis.bentley.edu/msis.
Other Continuing
Initiatives
The ACM and the IEEE Computing Society are
founders of FOCUS, the Federation on
Computing, United States. FOCUS represents
the United States in the International
Federation for Information Processing. FOCUS
acts on behalf of member societies in
carrying out international cooperation to
advance the information processing
profession. SIGMIS continues to fund the
attendance of the ACM's representative for
one of the annual meetings of FOCUS.
Membership
Membership has been a concern for SIGMIS for
many years. At the end of the past year,
SIGMIS membership was 1294. This represents
a decrease of 37 members or approximately 3
percent year to year.
Fund Balance
At the end of the FY, the SIGMIS fund
balance was $114,919. This represents a 5
percent decrease in the fund balance year to
year.
Fund Balance
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FY'93 |
$107,077 |
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FY'94 |
$114,927 |
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FY'95 |
$113,193 |
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FY'96 |
$136,119 |
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FY'97 |
$121,440 |
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FY'98 |
$114,919 |
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