Our System Office liaison, Tom Maier, has provided us with the opportunity to access one of the leading industries IT research firms. The following information is taken from a recent email from him.
The System Office has a contract with Gartner, one of the leading IT research firms. They often do assessments of and projections for the future of the IT industry. For example, they did an analysis of the effect of Off-shoring on the education and training of IT professionals in the US. They have a well established Higher Education practice along with their major focus on the business community. All that said, if you would like to include an Ask Gartner link on the page that would go to an email address of Gartner@usg.edu where committee members can ask questions, I can facilitate access to the Gartner research for answers.
Go to http://www.gartner.com/for a general overview and click on the Higher Education link to see more about this focus area.
Dr. Tom Maier
Assistant Vice Chancellor Information Technology
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
Tom.Maier@usg.edu
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