information accompanied with the technology supporting it is valuable asset in many organizations. as organizations are highly depended on it, implementing it effective governance is necessary for them. it governance areas affecting business are strategic alignment, risk management, performance management, resource management and providing value.  successful performances need a mix of structure...

The Minitrack “IT Governance and its Mechanisms” within the “Organizational Systems and Technology” Track is introduced at the HICSS conference in 2002. The goal of this Minitrack is to enhance publications on the issue of IT governance and its mechanisms. It is expected to get submissions from academics and practitioners involved in research on IT governance, Business/IT alignment, IT Balanced...

Nowadays information technology (IT) is present in all organizations. This pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT Governance (ITG). Organizations with effective governance have actively adopted a set of ITG mechanisms. However, ITG mechanisms are not well defined among the literature and in some cases there are incongruities in ...

The pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on Information Technology (IT) that requires IT Governance (ITG). ITG calls for the definition and implementation of formal mechanisms at the highest level in the organization taking into account structures, processes and relational mechanisms for the creation of business value from IT investments. However, determining the right ...

Effective IT governance will ensure alignment between IT and business goals. Organizations with ineffective IT governance will suffer due to poor performance of IT resources such as inaccurate information quality, inefficient operating costs, runaway IT project and even the demise of its IT department. This study seeks to examine empirically the individual IT governance mechanisms that influenc...

The worldwide concern with corporate governance concerns itself, inter alia, with the risks that an organisation faces; for many, IT is significant among those risks. This paper examines the audit approach, and others, to dealing with risks in IT-based systems. This paper summarises the findings of research in IT-related areas of risk and then draws together a charter for IT governance that mee...

Domain Specific Modeling (DSM) has been used for a while in many scenarios, case studies, and applications successfully. This paper intends to present a new application of DSM for facilitating an Early Warning Service (EWS). The knowledge about risks and its representation is an important factor for any EWS. The challenge is to help the users be closer to the understanding of the associated ris...