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IT Governance is “a framework for the leadership, organizational structures and business processes, standards and compliance to these standards, which ensure that the organization’s IT supports and enables the achievement of its strategies and objectives.”

Implementing an effective IT Governance Framework will help boards, and the individual directors on boards, to meet Shareholder expectations, which are clear:

• The board of directors will actually direct the management of the company, including strategic and IT business plans and fundamental structural changes;
• The board will see to the hiring of competent and honest business and IT managers;
• The board will understand the business of the firm and develop and monitor a business and IT strategy;
• The board will monitor the managers as they carry out the strategy and the operations of the company;
• When making a business decision, the board will develop a thorough understanding of the transaction and act in good faith, on an informed basis, and with a rational business purpose;
• The board will operate with basic honesty, care, and loyalty; and
• The board will take good-faith steps to make sure the company complies with the law.

These IT governance expectations demand an appropriate IT governance framework. That can be difficult and time-consuming to do from scratch.

If you just want to get on with improving IT governance in your organization the ISO38500 IT Governance Framework Toolkit is for you.

If you are not yet ready to implement an IT governance framework, or just want to know more about what’s involved, the IT Governance Library will help you to better align IT with your business needs today.

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• IT Governance: Guidelines for Directors – provides practical guidance that helps directors and boards master the most important business topic of the information age.
• IT Governance Today – a Practitioner’s Handbook – proposes an integrated IT Governance model that pulls together the key components of frameworks, such as ITIL, COBIT and others, into a single integrated model that overcomes the limitations of each and creates real business value.
• IT Governance – How Top Performers Manage IT for Superior Results – shows how organisations can manage their IT more effectively using an IT Governance framework for a better bottom line.
• Strategies for Information Technology Governance – records and interprets some important existing theories, models and practices in the IT Governance domain and aims to contribute to the understanding of IT Governance.
• Governance of the Extended Enterprise: Bridging Business and IT Strategies – explains how to implement an effective IT Governance structure for the long-term success of an extended enterprise. Expert advice from the IT Governance Institute is provided in this book.
• Achieving Business Value from Technology : A Practical Guide for Today’s Executive – suggests a systematic process to identify, track and realise the benefits from IT investments, and thereby derive business value from IT investments.

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