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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 5: WHAT IS IN AN IT GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK?

An IT governance framework consists, essentially, of a set of principles, a decision-making hierarchy and a tailor-made suite of reporting and monitoring processes.

There are eight key decision areas for designing an IT governance framework:

1. IT governance principles and decision-making hierarchy. There are two types of principle in this context:

a. governance principles, to do with how IT is to be managed in the enterprise, and

b. implementation principles, to do with how IT is to be used to achieve the business strategy.

2. The information strategy (which must be derived from the business strategy):

a. What information do we need, where does it come from and what are we going to ...

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