However, I personally had felt that the Quarterly lacked a consistency in quality. This is not the case today. I challenge you to take any recent issue and select any article and then argue that it does not represent solid scholarship. But things are certainly not perfect yet. Rather than spend time detailing desired operational improvements, I thought it might be more worthwhile for me to suggest a few strategic directions for the journal.
Scholarly journals tend to spend much more time looking backward than looking ahead.
Thus, I challenge information systems scholars to focus their research on tomorrow s technologies, on tomorrow s organizations, and tomorrow s workforce. The MIS Quarterly is acknowledged to be one of the premier scholarly outlets for publishing information systems research. Everyone involved with the Quarterly over the years must take pride in this accomplishment. While such instances are increasing, the citation rate remains much too low. It has become increasingly clear that the appropriate and effective application of information technology requires the deep intertwining of a given technology with a specific organization s strategic, tactical, and operational objectives, processes, and constraints.