Thomas Hoffman

Despite a steady rise in the number of IT jobs being outsourced, demand for workers with Internet-related skills such as Java and networking is helping to drive IT compensation higher, according to a report released recently by Meta Group Inc.

At Harrah's Entertainment Inc., much of the financial training for its corporate IT staff has been focused on its portfolio management techniques.

With technology costs representing more than half of all capital expenditures at many companies, CxOs are pressuring IT managers to more closely measure returns on technology investments.

MIT researcher Erik Brynjolfsson has long held that IT has had a significant effect on corporate productivity.

A small number of companies, including Novell Inc. and FedEx Corp., have elevated responsibility for IT governance to their boards of directors in an...

More than a dozen corporate IT auditors attending a conference this week said they're struggling mightily to document the controls used within their IT departments in time to meet the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadlines that most large companies are facing late this year.

U.S. companies are expected to invest billions of dollars this year in technologies and consulting services to help them comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other regulations. But few will be able to quickly leverage those investments to improve their internal business processes, IT executives and analysts said this week.

As corporate revenue growth steadily improves this year, spending on new or backlogged IT projects is also expected to increase.