Governance of Enterprise IT based on COBIT®5

CHAPTER 1: GOVERNANCE

‘Corporate Governance beganIn nineteen ninety-three(which was rather late for me)Between Robert Maxwell’s fraudAnd Cadbury’s report to the LSE.’

© 2009 Geoff Harmerafter Annus Mirabilis¹ by Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

This chapter discusses the development path that has led from the introduction of corporate governance to IT governance to the governance of enterprise IT (GEIT).

Enterprise and Governance

First let’s clarify two terms we are going to use extensively in this book: enterprise and governance.

Enterprise (n) is the term used to describe a range of different organisations: a commercial business (often called a corporation) that may, or may not, be quoted on a stock exchange; a public sector organisation such as a ...