Editorial: Design science, grand challenges, and societal impacts

It has been a great relief and pleasure for me to finally see the inaugural issue of the much-anticipated ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS) in print and distributed at the recent ICIS meeting in St. Louis, Missouri on December 12–15, 2010. Many thanks to those AEs, advisors, authors, colleagues, and friends who attended our little celebration party at the beautiful conference site, Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch. In total, we had close to 80 guests who attended the party and I signed many copies of the “collector’s edition” of this exciting inaugural issue! With this great beginning, I hope to see the continuous growth and success of this important ACM journal for the MIS community.