This paper investigates the business value of IT controls through a study of the four IT general controls (ITGC) processes (Program Development, Program Change, Access to Program and Data, and Computer Operations) in organizations from a business perspective. Through a survey of companies in China that have established and implemented ITGC in compliance with their business regulations in the ma...

Information technology is a means to the business end. IT is a tool designed to perform a business task within an overall business context. Thus, IT creates value only when it meets the business needs. A successful IT strategy must, therefore, align with the business, fully, from strategy setting, planning to detailed programs execution and delivery. The goal of IT strategy is to help business ...

Historically, many data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) initiatives have been IT-driven, and much of the focus within the industry has been on the technical aspects of delivering information to the BI user community. Having arrived at a point where many of the technical challenges and tradeoffs are at least well understood, attention has shifted toward expanding the ways in which BI ...

in spite of importance of it deployment, nowadays in many organizations we are witness of appearing problems related to dissatisfaction of business needs due to high investment in the field of it. the fervent debate concerning it productivity–or lack of such productivity- named productivity paradox persuade us to survey relationship between it–business alignment and business performance. the pu...