IT Governance - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about the application of IT governance within government.
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IT Governance - Archive
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Articles and resources about IT governance.
- Overthinking governance prevents innovation
- SharePoint specialist cites Sydney Opera House as example, By Lisa Banks. Computerworld, Thursday, 10 March, 2011. "Minimising overthinking of governance issues when deploying SharePoint is vital if CIOs are to achieve long term innovation, a SharePoint specialist has claimed..."
- IT Governance Institute seeks comment on new Risk IT Framework
- Public Technology, 18 February 2009. "The nonprofit, independent IT Governance Institute is seeking public comment on its new IT risk framework, which is based on the globally recognized COBIT IT governance tool set. Comments on Enterprise Risk: Identify, Govern and Manage IT Risk: The Risk IT Framework (Risk IT) will be accepted through 13 March 2009 at www.itgi.org..."
- IT Governance 101: An Executive Guide to IT Governance
- Solid IT governance — from regulatory compliance to financial and technological accountability — ensures that companies achieve their strategies and goals, by Karen D. Schwartz. CIO, 20 November, 2008. "From relative obscurity a few years ago, several factors have come together to make the concept of formal IT governance a good idea for virtually every company, both public and private. Key motivators include the need to comply with a growing list of regulations related to financial and technological accountability, and pressure from shareholders and customers. Here's a quick primer on the basics of IT governance..."
- Aligning COBIT 4.1 and ITIL V3 to Manage IT for Business Benefit
- By Paul Williams, Chair of ISACA Strategic Advisory Group, IT Governance Adviser to Protiviti. eGov Monitor, 1 September, 2008. "The growing adoption of IT best practices has been driven by a requirement for the IT industry to better manage the quality and reliability of IT in business and respond to a growing number of regulatory and contractual requirements..."
- Enterprise IT Governance Project Launched in New York
- Government Technology, July 22, 2008. "The Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at the University at Albany-SUNY launched a new project in partnership with the New York State Office of the Chief Information Officer and Office for Technology (CIO/OFT) to pilot an enterprise information technology (IT) governance framework for New York state (NYS) government. The enterprise governance framework will be collaboratively developed over the next 16 months with key stakeholders responsible for IT decision-making within the state..."
- ISO/IEC Standard Published for Governance of Information Technology
- Government Technology's Public CIO, June 10, 2008. "Because inadequate information technology (IT) systems can hinder the performance and competitiveness of organizations or expose them to the risk of not complying with legislation, the new ISO/IEC 38500 standard provides broad guidance on the role of top management in relation to the corporate governance of IT..."
- Standard Key to Razor Gang Effort
- An independent expert says that every federal government department and agency must implement highly effective corporate governance of IT from the top, by Sue Bushell. CIO, 1 May, 2008. "An independent expert on corporate governance says the federal government should fully embrace the Australian Standard for Corporate Governance of ICT as the key to controlling IT spend..."
- Forget Everything You've Learnt About Project Delivery, Part 10: Project governance and Project Health Checks
- If your governance team members haven’t been trained in their roles and activities then they are probably wasting time and money, by Jed Simms. CIO, 15 April, 2008. ""I don't know why I'm here" said one Sponsor. "It took me six months to understand my role on the (steering) committee," said another senior executive. Project Governance Committees are a huge waste of management's time. People don't know why they are there, how they contribute to the project's success. As a result they become the focal point for the project team to transfer problems (and accountability) to..."
- IT Governance and Business Outcomes – A Shared Responsibility between IT and Business Leadership
- NASCIO, March 2008. "IT Governance is all about ensuring that state government is effectively using information technology in all government lines of business. This requires that the decision rights for IT investments and deployment are properly shared between the business and IT functions within state government. This issue brief provides an introduction to this very broad topic..."
- NASCIO on Enterprise IT Governance: A Shared Responsibility
- Government Technology, March 5, 2008. "The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) is pleased to announce the release of its new issue brief "IT Governance and Business Outcomes - A Shared Responsibility between IT and Business Leadership". This issue brief presents a new environment where information technology must be managed as a business capability for achieving business transformation..."
- Why Projects Fail: Part Six, Poor Project Governance
- Despite the many hours spent by senior executives in project governance roles very few actually know what they're doing and what their role is, by Jed Simms. CIO, 24 July, 2007. "The CEO of a major brand name retailer admitted that, "Although I'm the obvious person to be the sponsor of this project, I really don't know what I'm supposed to do or how to ensure its success." Contrary to common assumptions that "executives think they know how to govern projects", they don't. One-on-one in private most will admit to being lost and feeling vulnerable. .."
- IT governance accreditation in 2007
- Governance skills will pay the bills, by Michael Crawford. Computerworld, 14 November 2006. "The IT Governance Institute (ITGI) in conjunction with ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) is developing an IT governance accreditation framework to be released late next year..."
- Getting Started With IT Governance
- by Jason Cole. Computerworld, October 16, 2006. "Everyone seems to be talking about IT governance these days, and they all seem to agree that it’s good for you, like taking your vitamins or getting 30 minutes of exercise each day. We like the way it sounds, we’d vote for it, we’d even buy it if someone would just tell us what the heck it is..."
- Everyone Gets to Play
- Good IT governance is not about committees, processes, forms and procedures. It's about involving as many people as possible. And then it's IT's job to support them. By Lynn H. Vogel. CIO Magazine, September 1, 2006. "... Everyone seems to be talking about IT governance, and most people agree that careful selection of who makes decisions about technology investments will have a major impact on how successful those investments will be. But how do you make good governance happen? The real challenge is not the designing of committees, processes, forms and procedures; it's meeting the challenge of participation..."
- CobiT Requires Commitment
- by Sue Bushell. CIO, 25 July 2006. "CobiT offers no instant panacea for IT governance, and organizations can't expect to implement an effective framework overnight. But while Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) International Vice President Howard Nicholson acknowledges CobiT is certainly not "plug and play", he says it will certainly enable organizations to achieve better alignment of IT and business objectives. Nicholson says the recently updated CobiT framework and the institute's new IT investment framework, Val IT, will herald development of management information on IT operations that is accessible to senior management..."
This category last updated: 15 February 2006