Book description
Use an IT Governance strategy to reduce risk
An Introduction for Directors and IT professionals
The modern organisation is increasingly working within the context of corporate governance. The subject dictates their day-to-day and strategic activities, especially corporate information asset risk management and investment, and the ICT infrastructure within which those information assets are collected, manipulated, stored and deployed.
But what is corporate governance, and why is it important to the IT professional? Why is IT governance important to the company director, and what do directors of companies - both quoted and unquoted - need to know?
The Calder-Moir Framework
The book also explains how to integrate each standard and framework using The Calder-Moir Framework (download for free from www.itgovernance.co.uk/calder_moir.aspx), which was developed specifically to help organisations manage and govern their IT operations more effectively, and to coordinate the sometimes wide range of overlapping and competing frameworks and standards. It also specifically supports implementation of ISO/IEC 38500, the international standard for best practice IT governance.
Practical IT Governance guidance
Board executives and IT professionals can learn to maximise their use of the numerous IT management and IT governance frameworks and standards - particularly ISO/IEC 38500 - to best corporate and commercial advantage.
Build an IT Governance Framework
Within a 'super framework', or 'meta -framework', you can integrate each of these standards and frameworks whilst making sure that each can deliver what it was designed to do. Developing an overarching framework will enable your organisation to design IT governance to meet your own needs.
Table of contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CONTEXT
- CHAPTER 1: IT GOVERNANCE DEFINED
- CHAPTER 2: INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND THE INFORMATION ECONOMY
- CHAPTER 3: STRATEGY: THE SEARCH FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
- CHAPTER 4: GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT
- CHAPTER 5: IT REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
- CHAPTER 6: INFORMATION AND CONTINUITY RISK
- CHAPTER 7: INTERNAL CONTROL FRAMEWORKS
- CHAPTER 8: PROJECT GOVERNANCE
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CHAPTER 9: COMPONENTS OF IT GOVERNANCE
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Key decision areas
- 1: IT governance principles and decision-making hierarchy (see Chapter 10: ISO/IEC 38500)
- 2: Information strategy (see Chapter 3: Strategy: The Search for Competitive Advantage)
- 3: IT strategy (see Chapter 3: Strategy: The Search for Competitive Advantage)
- 4: IT risk management see (see Chapter 6: Information and Continuity Risk)
- 5: IT architecture (see Chapter 16: Enterprise IT Architecture Committee)
- 6: IT investment and project governance (see Chapter 8: Project Governance)
- 7: Regulatory compliance and information security (see Chapter 5: IT Regulatory Compliance)
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Key decision areas
- CHAPTER 10: ISO/IEC 38500
- CHAPTER 11: IT GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS AND STANDARDS
- CHAPTER 12: THE CALDER-MOIR FRAMEWORK
- CHAPTER 13: IMPLEMENTING IT GOVERNANCE
- CHAPTER 14: DECISION MAKING AND THE IT ORGANISATION
- CHAPTER 15: IT STEERING COMMITTEE AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
- CHAPTER 16: ENTERPRISE IT ARCHITECTURE COMMITTEE
- CHAPTER 17: IT AUDIT
- CHAPTER 18: THE ITIL/COBIT/ISO27002 JOINT FRAMEWORK
- CHAPTER 19: THE IT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF TOMORROW
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CHAPTER 20: CALDER-MOIR IMPLEMENTATION —#8212;A 15-STEP PROCESS
- 1. Initial IT governance assessment
- 2. IT governance road map
- 3. Principles—drawing on ISO38500
- 4. Develop organisational momentum (commitment, governance mandate)
- 5. Initial risk assessment
- 6. Plan changes (see Chapter 13: Implementing IT Governance)
- 7. Build on existing capabilities
- 8. Business strategy
- 9. Risk, governance and compliance framework (see Chapter 4: Governance and Risk Management)
- 10. IT architecture and strategy
- 11. Change
- 12. Information and technology lifecycles
- 13. IT operations
- 14. Reporting
- 15. Evolution and management of IT governance
- The Calder-Moir IT Governance Framework Toolkit
- CHAPTER 21: MAKING THE BUSINESS CASE FOR IT GOVERNANCE
- ITG RESOURCES
Product information
- Title: IT Governance: Implementing Frameworks and Standards for the Corporate Governance of IT
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2009
- Publisher(s): IT Governance Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849281287
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