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July 1998 - June
1999
Submitted by: George Kasper, SIGMIS
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 one-thousand members throughout the
world; publishes DATA BASE; cosponsors CIKM;
cooperates in the International Conference
on Information Systems, the European
Conference on Information Systems, and
International Federation for Information
Processing, and other conferences; promotes
student achievement; is a cofounder of
ISWorld Net; and partners with other
professional organizations to 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
European Conference on Information
Systems |
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Continued to cosponsor the
Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management (CIKM) |
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Continued to sponsor the
International Conference on
Information Systems (ICIS) Doctoral |
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Dissertation Paper Award |
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Continued to represent ACM as a
member of a select group to develop
a model MS in IS curriculum |
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Expanded SIGMIS member services by
including a copy of the CIKM
proceedings |
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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. This was Dr. Mark Keil's
first full year as Co-Editor of DATA
BASE. 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. 29
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No. 2
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91 pages
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Vol. 29
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No. 3
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93 pages
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Vol. 29
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No. 4
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80 pages
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Vol. 30
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No. 1
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Forthcoming
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A meeting of DATA
BASE Departmental
Editors was held in December 1998 at ICIS.
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
SIGMIS was a 50 percent cosponsor of the
Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM), held November 3-7, 1998
in Washington, D.C. More details are
available at
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/cikm/1999. SIGMIS
remains an active supporter of ICIS and a
nonvoting member of the Executive Committee
of ICIS (http://www.isworld.org/isworld.html).
SIGMIS is also a supporter of the European
Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) to
be held July 3-5, 2000 at Vienna University
of Economics and Business Administration,
Vienna, Austria at http://
ecis2000.wu-wien.ac.at/start.htm.
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. In 1998, the award
was given to Dr. Ranganathan Chandrasekaran
for his work "Understanding the Context,
Process, and Outcome of Strategic IT
Decisions" completed at the Indian Institute
of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, India.A
one-year membership to SIGMIS is also
awarded to all Ph.D. students invited to
participate in the annual ICIS and ECIS
Doctoral Consortia. Most 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 at
http://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 1039. This represents
a decrease of approximately 200 members or
20 percent year over year.
Fund Balance
At the end of the FY, the SIGMIS fund
balance was $131,845. This represents almost
a 15 percent increase in the fund balance
year over year.
Fund Balance
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FY'93
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$107,077
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FY'94
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$114,927
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FY'95
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$113,193
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FY'96
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$136,119
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FY'97
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$121,440
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FY'98
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$114,919
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FY'99
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$131,845
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