Susan K' Land

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Report to SAB TAB on IEEE CS Executive
Committee JanPlan Meeting

• Susan K. Land
• 2005 VP of Standards
• IEEE Computer Society

Stephanie White 2005 VP of Technical
Activities IEEE Computer Society
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Central Purpose

• Transform the CS to better support tomorrows
  computing professionals
• Professionals have greater geographic career
  mobility, more information available online, new
  technical directions
• IT Initiative practitioners, may not be
  engineers
• Create a financially viable business model
• Annual surplus for reinvestment in new membership
  enhancing services
• Annual loss for no more than 1 consecutive year
  maintain reserves

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Goal 1 (Goals based on SP-5)

• Share the vision, break the silos
  (Interoperability)
• Foster interoperability among stakeholders, model
  transformative behavior.
• Align CS infrastructure
• Improve volunteer recruitment
• Improve awards program
• Software Engineering oversight committee
  established
• (TCSE, SWEBOK, PPC, Pubs, Standards, Education)

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Goal 2

• Create stakeholder and community -based
  business models (Product Lines)
• Develop market-driven business models featuring
  clearly defined objective functions, ROI, and
  reflect innovative marketing approaches
  Delineated community product lines.
• Develop innovative products
• Enhanced digital library, open access, online
  communities, increase of larger conferences
  using CS services, offer CS sponsored events at
  conferences
• Conference portfolio management model
• Align product development marketing with
  communities

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Goal 3

• Develop a forward looking customer model
• Create a new model of membership that leverages
  different levels of affiliation within the CS.
• Assess value of membership
• Develop eProduct corporate sales capability
• Understand institutional customer needs
  (libraries, corporations)
• Build corporate relationships partnership
  marketing capabilities

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Goal 4

• Build an effective infrastructure (content,
  tools, process)
• Continue to create an infrastructure that is
  innovative and responsive to member needs.
• Project Management Operational Transformation,
  CMMI Level 2
• Pubs
• Distance learning content, mechanisms for
  creating merchandizing
• Conserve redirect publishing resources
• CDs DVDs as supplement or alternative
• Improve conference publishing/avoid rate
  increases

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Goal 5

• Embrace manage fundamental change (business
  model)
• Plan, manage, communicate transformation to new
  business model.
• Staff Top Goals for 05
• Project Management / CMMI
• Conference Portfolio Management Systems to
  Support
• Pubs
• Improved products
• Periodical portfolio review
• Product development
• Transformation Plan

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Planning Activity SAB/TAB/CT

• Identify nurture emerging standards (TAB SAB)
• Identify opportunities to leverage relationships
  with other standards organizations (TAB SAB)
• Explore processes for taking positions in other
  standards organizations (SAB)

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More Planning Activity SAB/TAB/CT

• Identify ways for standards groups to work with
  TAB conferences to disseminate / get input for
  standards work. (SAB, TAB, CT)
• Find synergies in our communities identify new
  products and services. (CT, TAB, SAB)
• Create draft matrix with point products and
  services grouped by technical topics. (Staff)
• Solicit input from volunteers (TC conference
  chairs, pubs editors, newsletter editors)

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More Planning Activity SAB/TAB/CT

• Implement conference portfolio management project
• Develop qualification criteria measure of
  vitality and value
• Communicate incentivize
• Develop unified database
• Include all users of products and services
• Expand TECA to include conferences, tutorials,
  standards balloters, pubs..

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More Planning Activity SAB/TAB/CT

• Investigate models of conference ownership
  agreements
• Long term perpetual relationship vs annual budget
  process

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Board Inter-Board Planning Sessions