1. 1 SGB Meeting Monday, February 5, 2007 Viability Report Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems

2. 2 SGB Meeting Monday, February 5, 2007 Fund Balance DateAmountDeltaRequired June03$ 52,820($12,093)*N/A June04 $ 98,107 $45,287 $34,910 June05$105,839 $ 7,732 $27,098 June06$106,288 $ 449 $36,502 *Merged with SIGCPR

3. 3 SGB Meeting Monday, February 5, 2007 Membership About 10% decline until June 05-06 may be a remnant of the merger 1 st year retention low may not retain fee-free memberships to Doctoral students

4. 4 SGB Meeting Monday, February 5, 2007 Conference Activities CPR Annual Conference since merger 7/2002 Conference Chairs secured for 2007-2010 Also actively support: Business Information Systems Conference (BIS) European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Sponsor Doctoral Dissertation Award Annual networking reception 2003 Philadelphia, PA USA $5,403 2004Tucson, AZ USA – Outstanding Paper Award ($6,162) 2005Atlanta, GA USA $4,617 2006Pomona, CA USA – Doctoral Consortium $4,224

5. 5 SGB Meeting Monday, February 5, 2007 Publications DATA BASE Quarterly newsletter publishing peer-reviewed research in MIS Since 1961, has been highly regarded Received by more than 150 libraries worldwide New Editor & Global Co-Editor since January 2007 Retained Managing Editor & Technical Editor Abstracts of articles & other info available at the-database.org

6. 6 SGB Meeting Monday, February 5, 2007 Other Member Benefits Representative for Curriculum Development: IS2008 Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems Representative at IFIP Electronic community: Discussion Board initiated 2001 Members email list initiated 2000 Community forum: Annual CPR conference since April 2003 Annual networking reception at ICIS initiated 2001 Possibility of new European SIGMIS chapter