Information systems management issues: Reporting and relevance

Reports of key information systems issues have been published over the last two decades in many journals. Leading IS journals (e.g., MIS Quarterly, In formation & Management, among others) have published key IS management issu e reports every three or four years over the last 15 years, and will probab ly continue to provide such reports in the future. Although these reports c laim to provide decisional guidance to practitioners, researchers, consulta nts, etc., the authors in their experience have noted concerns about their usefulness. While not questioning the validity of the methods and analysis conducted in these studies, we address two important questions in this arti cle: the manner of reporting of the key issue results (which might be misle ading), and the relevance of the results tare they providing what they inte nded to?). We hope that our discussion will provide new perspectives in mak ing resource allocation decisions to both readers and authors of key issue articles.