Thomas Hoffman

According to a 10-year survey of 200,000 managers and employees around the world conducted by The Jackson Organization in Laurel, Md., organizations that consistently recognize excellence generate a return on equity more than three times higher than institutions that don't

Is there a way to calculate the return-on-investment from corporate blogs? Two Forrester Research analysts. - Chloe Stromberg and Charlene Li - believe there is.

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Since the first serve of the 2005 U.S. Open Tennis Championships on Monday, IBM has been using virtualization technologies to distribute data processing workloads between the three IT centers managing traffic to the USOpen.org Web site.

A strengthening economy that is fueling higher IT spending and a tight labour market for U.S. IT workers is creating moderate pay gains for technical workers such as application developers and database administrators, according to new research and interviews with IT executives and analysts.

Until recently, many CIOs hadn't given much thought to succession planning, thanks largely to a weak economy and low staff turnover. "People were lulled into a sense of complacency over the last five years, as there hadn't been much job movement," says Bill Homa, CIO at Hannaford Brothers Co., a Scarborough, Maine-based grocer.

Robert D. Blackwell Sr. has seen a lot of progress by African-American IT professionals since he first joined the industry nearly 40 years ago. Computerworld spoke with Blackwell, 67, about the merger, the state of the IT consulting market and the challenges of being a black IT professional.

Several attendees at a recent IT asset management conference said that attaining executive buy-in and funding for asset management programs remains a big challenge.