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Consumers are gaining the Right to Repair — are companies ready? As corporations pivot to design for repairability and prepare for a more competitive services aftermarket, Gerald Kane, C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair in Business Administration at The University of Georgia Terry College of Business, and Jan Recker, Nucleus Professor for Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Hamburg Business School, explore how right-to-repair laws are an opportunity for technology manufacturers to redefine their relationship with consumers as a preferred service provider. https://lnkd.in/d5PeH4UQ - UGA MIS | MIT Sloan Management Review

Bots increase user engagement, but at the cost of deeper human-to-human interactions, according to “The Effect of Bots on Human Interaction in Online Communities,” recently published in MIS Quarterly from John Lalor, assistant professor of IT, analytics and operations, and?Nick Berente, professor of IT, analytics and operations, both at the?University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business, along with Hani Safadi from The University of Georgia. https://lnkd.in/ePrKDPXr - UGA MIS

Digital tools such as online marketing, payment processing and electronic bookkeeping allow even the smallest businesses to punch above their weight in exploiting efficiencies and competing in larger markets. So, why would any small business forgo these advantages??New research from Mariana Andrade-Rojas, associate professor of management information systems?at The University of Georgia, indicates it may come down to bribery. Read More: https://lnkd.in/eeT_DYXv - UGA MIS

Gerald Kane, a digital transformation expert who joined Terry in 2022 as part of a university-wide AI hiring initiative and was named head of the Department of Management Information Systems in January, says this only raises the ceiling of what’s possible. “We’re in the first inning of a nine-inning game,” he says. “We are only scratching the surface. Partially because the technology is not there yet, but also because we haven’t really figured out the best use cases for it.” Which is to say: If you think ChatGPT and Gemini are cool, wait till you see what’s next. https://lnkd.in/epdrngAM

Did you know that in addition to being one of the Top 10 programs at a public institution, The University of Georgia's Management Information Systems department was one of the first MIS programs around? In 1969, the Departments of Management and Accounting created a program called Business Systems. Though it was a joint program, it was administered and quickly assimilated by Management. The program’s name was changed to Management Information Systems in 1971, becoming one of the first such programs in the country. Go Dawgs! https://lnkd.in/ey6AdGyn - UGA MIS

Thanks to?the MIS Student Advisory Board and our Black Level sponsors for helping us host this year's MIS Top 10% event, celebrating some of our department's highest-achieving students.

Thanks to our Student Advisory Board and all of our corporate sponsors for helping us host yet another great MIS Welcome Back Social for our students on campus!