Now everyone at Drexel can use THIS LINK to create a personal portal account on the native Gartner interface instead of the old locally hosted version we had. To create your own account just use your DrexelOne ID/PW at the prompt. You can then set up a personalized alert profile, browse up-to-the-minute content and access the full Gartner backfile.
Quick Start:
See Gartner’s quick-start guide or 3 minute training video to get oriented. A Gartner alerts profile is a “must-have” for all IS / IT students. It is also highly valued resource by leaders the fields of business and administration who gain valuable context from Gartner’s emerging technology forecasts and “hype cycle” reports.
Background:
Gartner is the global leader in providing accurate and current research for the IT industry. Providing help to translate complex IT issues to comprehensive advice and meaningful analysis, Gartner offers the combined brainpower of 1,200 research analysts and consultants who advise executives in 80 countries every day. They publish tens of thousands of pages of original research annually and can help you make smarter and faster decisions.
NOT just for IT geeks:
With a primary focus on the enterprise, Gartner offers the strategic level trend spotting and directional “which way is the wind blowing” perspective on all sorts of technology as they affect business, consumer, education, government and research fronts. Well worth your time to check out.
IT cases are great teaching and learning tools. If you’re a faculty member teaching students with limited professional exposure, you have only so many ways of “making it real” for your class. Similarly, if you’re a student, how can you prepare yourself for a co-op or professional position when you have few details about the job, and little experience to draw upon when challenging situations arise?
On both counts, I recommend the following “IT Cases” that we now have full-text from the publisher IGI Global as a starting point. This publisher releases the cases within the context of several journals with a focus on either a particular technology or industry – which helps when browsing. There may also be a way to keyword search all of the cases from the advanced search. FACULTY: Contact me about related teaching notes and exam materials.
Let me know what you think!
Tim Siftar
iSchool Librarian
Cases on Database Technologies and Applications
Cases on Electronic Commerce Technologies and Applications
Cases on Global E-Learning Practices
Cases on Global IT Applications and Management
Cases on Information Technology and Business Process Reengineering
Cases on Information Technology and Organizational Politics & Culture
Cases on Information Technology Entrepreneurship
Cases on Information Technology in Higher Education: Implications for Policy and Practice
Cases on Information Technology Planning, Design and Implementation
Cases on Strategic Information Systems
Cases on Telecommunications and Networking
Cases on Worldwide E-Commerce: Theory in Action
Annals of Cases on Information Technology
Annals of Cases on Information Technology Applications and Management in Organizations
International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce
Journal of Cases on Information Technology
