Turning Heads and Changing Minds - Transcending IT Auditor Archetypes

INTRODUCTION

The idea for this book came to me when I was doing the conference circuit. Several times a year, I scheduled time away from work to speak at audit and compliance conferences. Starting in the local San Francisco Bay Area, I branched out to out-of-state locales. My focus was IT audits: I covered anything from general computer and application controls to audit communications and client delivery. Countless red-eye flights (and sleepless nights) later, it occurred to me that participants from varied industries often voiced the same need: how can IT auditors evolve from traditional finger-pointingroles to become convincing partners with business and technology counterparts? Can we adopt a behavioral patternto excel at building or sustaining ...