Dr. Carl Canlas and Dr. Jason Sharp, from the Department of Information Systems & Technology, presented at the 2024 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) held August 15-17 in Salt Lake City, themed "Elevating Life Through Digital Social Entrepreneurship".

Dr. Canlas explored the influence of human-related and project management action factors on IT project management based on the Critical Success Factors theory. The findings of the study indicated that integrated project management implementation and IT project management success were significantly higher among certified IT project managers, those with a combination of STEM and management backgrounds, as well as those who have been in the IT project management field for 5 years or more, and that integrated project management implementation significantly predicted IT project management success. Canlas, Carl, "The Effectiveness of Project Management Credentials and Integrated Project Management Implementation on IT Project Management Success" (2024). AMCIS 2024 Proceedings. 10. https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2024/it_pm/it_pm/10

Dr. Sharp, building upon prior research, examined the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate IS teaching cases.  OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini, were pitted against each other in the "battle of the LLMs" to crown a winner. The results of the study indicated that ChatGPT and Gemini produced statistically significant better results than Claude and Copilot on subjective and objective measures. There was no statistically significant difference between ChatGPT and Gemini or between Claude and Copilot. The battle resulted in a tie between ChatGPT and Gemini. Lang, Guido; Sharp, Jason; and Triantoro, Tamilla, "Battle of the Large Language Models: Crowning the Winner for Generating Information Systems Teaching Cases" (2024). AMCIS 2024 Proceedings. 22. https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2024/is_education/is_education/22

"The Americas' Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is one of the leading annual conferences for presenting the broadest variety of research by IS/IT scholars in North America and beyond. Every year its papers, panels and workshops are selected from over 800 submissions, presenting the latest research in systems, technology and methods from around the world and from across the SIG communities" (https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis/).