SOUTHFIELD ?The Detroit Chapter of the Society of Information

Management was one of the winners of the annual SIM Membership

Growth Competition for 2004, posting the highest growth of membership in its size category.

The Detroit Chapter of SIM won the award for the ?Large? category

of between 51 and 100 members. The announcement was made and the prize

awarded at SIM?s 2005 Chapter Summit.

?This is excellent news,?? said Doug Wiescinski of Plante & Moran, the SIM Detroit Chapter?s current Executive Board President. ?Thanks to the fine leadership of our Board and effort by our members, we have surpassed all previous membership numbers. It is a great team effort. ?The Detroit Chapter

continues to recruit the top information technology executives in the

region to participate.?

Established in 1968, the Society for Information Management is

comprised of nearly 3,000 members, including CIOs, senior IT executives, prominent academicians, consultants, and other IT leaders. SIM is a community of thought leaders who share experiences and rich intellectual capital that is applied, and who explore future IT direction. In partnership with its 30 chapters, SIM provides resources and programs inspired by IT leaders for IT leaders that enable CIOs to further develop their leadership capabilities and the key and

emerging leaders in their organizations. SIM provides the collective voice

to advocate policy and legislation on behalf of the IT profession across

industries.