IT Governance: Guidelines for Directors

CHAPTER 8: IT GOVERNANCE IN ACTION

Guideline for Directors: unless and until you have a working IT governance framework in place, you should not invest a cent (in any currency) in any of the increasing number of ‘IT governance solutions’ available from IT vendors. IT governance is about the internal organizational structure for making decisions about using IT to improve the organization’s competitive position; software ‘solutions’ can’t create this structure if it doesn’t already exist.

This chapter is about the implementation of an IT governance framework that was designed following the guidelines suggested in the previous chapter. IT governance is NOT a framework for how the IT function governs itself; it is a framework for how the organization’s ...