IT governance is an executive level concern in many enterprises today, but a method for credible, reliable, and cost-efficient IT governance maturity assessment has been lacking. Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (Cobit) is best practice in the area, but the method requires an experienced analyst to perform the assessment and the provided analysis framework is vague and ...

Over the last two decades, the role of information technology in organizations has changed from primarily a supportive and transactional function to being an essential prerequisite for strategic value generation. The organizations based their operational services through its Information Systems (IS) that need to be managed, controlled and monitored constantly. IT governance (ITG), i.e. the way ...

IT Governance has become an increasingly important process in delivering business value from IT. A number of IT governance frameworks have been proposed as the MIT – CISR framework and COBIT. However, there is no proposal of a systematic methodology for IT Governance assessment and design, considering the possibility of joint usage of multiple frameworks. This paper presents a systematic method...

One commonly used framework for developing and evaluating technology intensive information systems is CobiT. This framework was originally a benchmark of best control practices developed and maintained by the Information Technology Governance Institute, the umbrella organization to the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. We empirically examine the conceptual model that underlies ...

As information technology (IT) persists as an integral means for achieving success in organisational business processes, IT Governance (ITG) continues to be a top priority too. Current reports show that enterprises continue to suffer financial losses as a result of poor ITG practices. To better govern IT resources, many have tried to address this problem by migrating to the highly recommended I...

COBIT 5 is positioned in the market as a de-facto standard for enterprise governance of IT. Relevant literature and management experience, however, indicate that the adoption of the framework is challenging due to its perceived complexity. In this paper we present a software prototype aiming to promote the understanding of COBIT 5, its components and their relationships by means of information ...

With Sarbanes–Oxley and other legislation, securing IT within a company has become law. This article takes a look at how compliance legislation can be used to get more support from the Board when it comes to security issues, and how information assets still need to be protected further. a 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

The ever rising complexity of the corporate IT forces organizations, especially the ones acting internationally, to take measures managing their IT. IT-Governance is one measure to maintain control. IT-Governance is no end in itself, yet, there is a strong need of skilled worker implementing and executing it effectively and efficiently. Problematically, in the global IT-Industry there is a skil...

The factors leading to success of Information Technology (IT) projects are widely discussed in literature. This paper endeavours to provide a comprehensive comparative review of the definition of (IT) project success according to literature and the well known IT control framework CobiT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology). For this purpose a construction of project succes...