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IT Governance: A Pocket Guide
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IT Governance: A Pocket Guide

by Alan Calder
May 2007
Beginner
52 pages
49m
English
IT Governance Publishing
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CHAPTER 2: DRIVERS FOR IT GOVERNANCE

The five major drivers of IT governance are:

1. The search for competitive advantage – in the dynamically changing information economy – through intellectual assets, information and IT.

2. Rapidly evolving governance requirements across the OECD, underpinned by capital market and regulatory convergence.

3. Increasing information- and privacy-related legislation (compliance).

4. The proliferation of threats to intellectual assets, information and IT.

5. The need to align technology projects with strategic organizational goals, ensuring that they deliver planned value (‘project governance’).

The information economy and intellectual capital

The new information, or knowledge, economy is fundamentally different ...

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