IEEE Executive Director Report
R10 Meeting
2 March, 2013
Chiang Mai, Thailand
James Prendergast
2012 Growth Highlights
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$393M Revenue achieved (unaudited)
429,085 members as of year-end 2012
85-100 Tutorials added to elearning library
85K downloads of IEEE-USA ebooks on professional topics
11.9M hits on tryengineering.org during 2012
Acceptance of IEEE Standards in Europe
AICTE opportunity in India leveraged
Asia & Europe business development study completed
Chinese version of Spectrum released
Clarified BC/DR following Hurricane Sandy
Cloud reference architecture created
Comprehensive QA Policy completed
Computing Now launched
Conference quality issue addressed
CSDA/P rollout in India
Data center upgraded, including the core network services
Digital Spectrum for students released
EPICS in 12 countries
Evaluation of the IEEE Brand completed
Five new technology events delivered
Google Apps released to the professional staff
HTC recognized with awards
Humanitarian/Social Impact strategy defined
IBP released successfully along with subsequent releases
ICP Interactive content in Xplore now available
ICX for conferences phased releases commenced
IEEE Amicus brief on Standards lauded as the neutral legal
Another impressive year
Business Highlights
Membership Stats*
(January 2013)
IEEE Total Membership: 438,246
– Increased 2.7%: 11,474 members
– Higher Grade Membership (without GSM)
 Increased 1.5%: 4,534 members
– Undergraduate
 Increased 4.1%: 3,006 members
– Graduate Students
 Increased 9.1%: 3,934 members
Total Society Membership: 333,389
– Increased +0.6%: 2,005 members
– 21 societies increased by more than 1%
– 12 societies decreased by more than 1%
– 5 societies saw increases or decreases of +/- 1%
* all figures are end of January 2013 and reflect the same time period [YoY] for
2012 unless otherwise noted
Society Memberships
Number of individuals with at least one Society
membership increased by almost 2%, with no loss
in overall memberships
– Members gravitating to one ‘home’ Society as
publications are becoming increasingly available from their
employers
– To increase the number of members holding multiple
Society memberships is positive: to do so without a
concurrent loss in overall membership is even more so
It Was A Very Good Year…
2012 sales forecast = $195.2 million
– $6.3 million over budget
– 7.6% over 2011
New corporate sales exceeded expectations
Global Growth
Recorded stronger sales in countries
spanning the globe
Record-setting efforts in India
– Result of hard work, great preparation,
and focused, team-wide execution
Quick to identify, analyze and
capitalize upon possibilities
in emerging markets
Benchmarking IEEE’s sales growth:
We Continue to Outperform the Competition
Sci/Tech publishing
average growth
growth
2011
5.1%
5.2%
2012
3.2%
7.6%
3.2%
4.8%
2013
forecast
forecast
prelim
budget
Sources: Outsell September 2012; IEEE Marketing 2013
2012 IEEE Xplore®
Global Usage
*Full-text PDF downloads
Source: NetInsight Reports
Standards Education
John Wiley & Sons has accepted IEEE Standards Education
Committee-developed proposal to write and publish a book of
case studies on modern standardization under the IEEE PressWiley imprint.
– requested by university professors around the world
The IEEE Standards Education Committee released the fifth
issue of IEEE Standards Education e-Magazine on 30 January
2013 http://standardsmagazine.ieee-elearning.org
Standards Education Workshop at ICCVE conference (Beijing)
in partnership with CNIS in December.
Standards Education Track was held as part of the Indicon
2012 conference in Kochi in Dec 2012
– students papers from the IEEE Standards Education Committee grants
were presented.
Standards Publications
In 2012, IEEE-SA published its highest amount of
pages - ever, just under 20,000.
– A primary driver of these numbers (volume and speed) is
the increasing amount of 802 documents published (22
total) and the expedited work associated with them and
Smart Grid (SG) documents.
Average time to publication continued to decrease
to 8 weeks.
Pre-University Education
EPICS (Engineering Projects In Community Service)
– Currently 40 projects, operating in 14 Countries:
 Argentina, Belgium, India, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Nigeria, South
Africa, Tunisia, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Zambia, Zimbabwe
 More than 100 volunteers involved, working with:
 266 University Students and 471 pre-university students
 Impacts 90,000 people in communities around the world
TISP (Teacher In-Service Program)
– 4 TISP training workshops slated for 2013
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Reach an estimated 250-300 IEEE volunteers
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Goal is to reach 600 teachers representing 64,000 students
IEEE Spectrum Redesigns To Better
Work In Print and Electronic Form
 The new “S” Logo is inspired by
the radio spectrum charts
 The “S” Logo is designed to work
in multiple formats – from the
magazine to smartphones
 New Web site uses
HTML5 so that it
works on a variety
of devices – story
modules reconfigure
to fit your screen
IEEE Computer Society offers professional
training programs in emerging areas
IEEE Computer Society
now offers TechLeader
courses in all new areas:
Cloud Compting,
Embedded Systems,
Multicore and/or Parallel
Processing, and New
topical areas such as
Ethical Hacking.
Will also offer 16 of
Skillsoft’s
KnowledgeCenter
learning portals.
IEEE Society Webinars attract thousands
Mainly between May-Dec
2012, 6 IEEE Societies
reported hosting about 70
webinars.
Computer, EDS, ComSoc,
CIS, SSCS, & PELS.
Attracted roughly 10,260
attendees from various
regions.
Computer Society has
highest attendance: 5,400.
Open Access: IEEE Access + 4
Topical Journals Now In Operation
Dr. Michael Pecht,
IEEE Access
Fabrizio Lombardi, IEEE
Carmen S. Menoni,
Transactions on
IEEE Photonics
Emerging Topics in
Journal
Computing
Renuka P. Jindal,
IEEE Journal of
Electron Devices
Society
Clifford Dasco, IEEE
Journal of
Translational
Engineering in Health
& Medicine
Atam P. Dhawan,
IEEE Journal of
Translational
Engineering in Health
and Medicine
Moving Forward In
Region 10
IEEE Asia-Pacific Limited
Established
New entity incorporated in Singapore as Company
Limited by Guarantee
Approval received from Singapore Economic
Development Board for the Non Profit Organization Tax
Incentive (NPOTI) program.
NPOTI Program Start Date: 1 Mar 2013 and valid till
28 Feb 2018. Entity is tax exempt and renewable
every 5 years.
This establishes the IEEE Asia Pacific Office as the Asia
Pacific regional headquarters for IEEE raising our
profile for the activities in the Asia Pacific.
India Office Continues Expansion
Nandini R. Bhamne, Administrative Assistant
Sri Chandra—Standards, Sr. Regional Program Mgr.
Mega Nugehally—Sr. Prod. Education Mgr.
Dhanu Pattanashetti, Marketing Client Services Mgr.
Munir Mohammed, IT Supv. Program Analyst
Kanika Sahajwani, IT Program Analyst
Harish Mysore,
Director of
India
Operations
Arun Madhugiri, IT Program Analyst
Yathi Tarikere, Computer Society Staff
(hired November 2012)
IT Developer (OPEN)
IT PC Tech. Network Analyst (OPEN)
IT Siebel Admin. (OPEN)
Deepak Rajendaran, IT Database Analyst
(hired December 2012)
IT Quality Analyst (OPEN)
IT Quality Analyst (OPEN)
Louis D’Mello, International Area Mgr., MSD
(hired January 2013)
Finance/Operations position (OPEN)
Concluding Remarks
Our Five Year Aspiration
By 2016, IEEE will be the global provider of choice,
and #1 in customer satisfaction, for services and
products that empower people to discover, develop,
and deliver technology.
We will achieve this by:
– Delivering a best-in-class user experience by aggressively
leveraging technologies
– Increasing nimbleness, speed to market, and
operational efficiencies
– Driving high employee engagement and leadership excellence
– Creating new opportunities for member and
customer engagement
– Ensuring our long term future through increased
financial growth, strength & stability
Our Five Year Aspiration: 2013
Empowering Our Professional Core
1.
Delivering a best-in-class user
experience by aggressively
leveraging technologies
• Create an Extranet for Volunteers
• Create a consistent and intuitive mobile access
framework and apply to one product
2.
Increasing nimbleness, speed
to market, and operational
efficiencies
• Streamline the user experience of expense
reporting and procurement
3.
Driving high employee
engagement and leadership
excellence
• Empower employees through the establishment and
rollout of core, technical and leadership competencies
• Implement IEEE Leadership Academy and a semiannual Leadership Summit.
4.
Creating new opportunities
for member and customer
engagement
• Provide new member services through Google Apps
• Establish a business plan for a Career Resource Portal
for the worldwide technical professional community
5.
Ensuring our long term future
through increased financial
growth, strength & stability
• Develop a five year financial plan
• Deliver a clear financial reporting format to improve
decision making
IEEE’s Professional Core:
We Are In The Knowledge Business
We empower people to discover, develop and
deliver technology for YOU…
• We believe in collaboration and leveraging the
power of one IEEE
• We strive for excellence in everything we do
• We align with global trends
• We aim for simplicity
• We focus for maximum impact
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