October 27, 1997

Dear Fellow IS/IT Research Center Director:

We are pleased to invite you to the Annual IS/IT Research Center Directors' Breakfast Meeting on Monday, December 15, 1997, which will be held during the 18th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Atlanta, GA (see attached announcement). The meeting will begin at 6:30 a.m. and end promptly at 8:30 a.m. in the Crystal D Room of the Atlanta Hilton & Towers Hotel, which is the main ICIS Conference Hotel. The minutes from last year's meeting in Cleveland are available on the web site: http://www-lan.unt.edu/isitrc/. A buffet breakfast will be provided for each center director courtesy of the sponsors (see below). Please RSVP e-mail (becker@unt.edu), fax (See QUICKFAX attached; 940-565-4317), call (940-565-3128) or mail your reply by December 10, 1997.

Our Meeting Sponsors:

Henk G. Sol, Dean
Systems Engineering Policy Analysis and Management -- Delft University of Technology
http://www.sepa.tudelft.nl/

Neo Boon Siong, Director
Information Management Research Center -- Nanyang Technological University
http://www.ntu.ac.sg/nbs

E. Ted Stohr, Director
Center for Research on Information Systems -- New York University
http://eldorado.stern.nyu.edu/~center/

Mats Lundeberg, Director
Institute for Business Process Development -- Stockholm School of Economics
http://www.hhs.se/im

David Paradice, Director
Center for the Management of Information Stystems -- Texas A&M University
http://cmis.tamu.edu/

Jack D. Becker, Director
Information Systems Research Center -- University of North Texas
http://www-lan.unt.edu/isitrc/

The meeting agenda will be as follows:

1) "Best Practices" for Managing and Operating IS/IT Research Centers

Each center director will have about 2 minutes to highlight your center's most important activities or success stories; we are calling this the. Please bring a handout or promotional material to share with the other directors (estimate 40 directors). See last years minutes on the Web for examples.

2) IS/IT Academic Research Center Home Page (http://www-lan.unt.edu/isitrc/)

We will welcome your suggestions for the contents and the maintenance of the IS/IT Academic Research Centers home page on ISWorld Net. Please examine your Center's pertinent information on the. An "voluntary" invoice form for next years support of the Web site is attached. A list of this year's supporters is attached. Thanks to each of you.

We look forward to seeing you at ICIS in Atlanta!

Sincerely yours,

Jack D. Becker
Director, UNT ISRC

ENCLOSURES
-Announcement for the 1996 IS/IT Research Center Directors' Meeting
-QUICKFAX reply form; 1995-96 UNT ISRC Annual Report
-Invoice for Support of Web Page Activities (This is voluntary, not mandatory).