Spending for IT goods and services is expected to grow next year, as organizations enter a new phase of technology acquisition. In 2008, IT will experience an 8 percent increase in spending over 2007 purchasing budgets—that’s 3 percent more than in 2007, said Andrew Bartels, an analyst at Forrester Research, in Cambridge, Mass. For 2008, spending patterns are expected to begin to change, as companies focus more on increasing productivity than in cutting costs. “Forrester talks about two periods of technology acquisition, which we call ‘tech digestion’ and ‘innovation growth,'” Bartels said.