[AISWorld] SIM IT Trends Study Organizations Represent 28% of US GDP and $232 Billion in IT Spending

[Kappelman, Leon]

The Society for information Management (SIM) IT Trends Study Research Team is actively working to interpret and write up the findings from this year's record-breaking 36th Anniversary Study. 1218 SIM members participated this year (up from 1002 last year), representing 785 unique organizations (up from 717) and 486 CIOs (up from 451). The overall response rate was 24.7% of all SIM members, a substantial increase over last year's 21.4%, and quite outstanding given that SIM is an organization of senior IT executives!

Although SIM member organizations come in all sizes, the average annual revenue of these 785 organizations is almost $6.25 billion, representing a combined total revenue of more than 28% of 2014 US GDP.  Their average annual IT budget is just shy of $295 million, so more than $231.5 billion in IT spending is represented by the 785 responding organizations.  Read more @ https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.simnet.org/resource/resmgr/SIM_News/August_IT_Trends_Study_-_SIM.pdf<http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fc%2Eymcdn%2Ecom%2Fsites%2Fwww%2Esimnet%2Eorg%2Fresource%2Fresmgr%2FSIM_News%2FAugust_IT_Trends_Study_-_SIM%2Epdf&urlhash=9Y8Q&_t=tracking_anet>

The SIM IT Trends Study has been a collaboration of IT executives and academics since its inception in 1980.  The studies originally appeared in MISQ starting in 1982, and then MISQE since it came into being.  SIM has provided financial supported to the journals during this period too.  The entire known archive of articles and slide decks is available free of charge at the bottom of the Study's home page @ http://www.simnet.org/?ITTrendsStudy.

There were some early monographs and white papers published through the MISRC @ the University of Minnesota and perhaps other institutions, but we have not been able to locate copies.  If you happen to have a copy of something not listed in the archive (http://www.simnet.org/members/group_content_view.asp?group=140286&id=436627), please let me know.
"If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things." - Confucius
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Leon A. Kappelman, Ph.D.
  Professor of Information Systems<http://www.cob.unt.edu/profiles/112>
  Director Emeritus, Information Systems Research Center
  Fellow, Texas Center for Digital Knowledge
    College of Business, University of North Texas
    Voice: 940-565-4698   Email: kapp at unt.edu<mailto:kapp at unt.edu>
  Primary Investigator, SIM's Annual IT Trends Study<http://www.simnet.org/?ITTrendsStudy>
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