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Time is running out to make the most of our August IT Governance Framework Toolkit – Special Offer. Purchase before the end of August and receive 4 free e-books!

IT Governance Framework Toolkit – Special Offer IT Governance: A Pocket Guide FREE! IT Governance to Drive High Performance: Lessons from Accenture FREE! ISO/IEC 38500 The IT Governance Standard – Pocket Guide FREE! IT Governance: Implementing Frameworks and Standards for the Corporate Governance of IT FREE!

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The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) last week fined the Royal Bank of Scotland Group £5.6m for ‘failing to have adequate IT systems and controls in place to prevent breaches of UK financial sanctions’. You can read more about this incident on Alan Calder’s IT Governance Blog where he states:

‘It always seems to me a pity that organisations have to be pushed, by substantial fines, to do things that have significant business benefits’.

The business benefits that Alan is referring to are particularly relevent right now as we face public sector spending cuts and struggle to recover from recession. You can read more about these benefits in a recent blog post: IT Governance and ISO38500 will help organisations during times of austerity.

Improve IT Governance in your organisation

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When you buy the IT Governance Framework Toolkit before the end of August 2010, we’ll send you the following 4 eBooks free:

1. FREE! IT Governance: A Pocket Guide
2. FREE! IT Governance to Drive High Performance: Lessons from Accenture
3. FREE! ISO/IEC 38500 The IT governance standard – Pocket Guide
4. FREE! IT Governance: Implementing Frameworks and Standards for the Corporate Governance of IT

The IT Governance Framework – Toolkit & Book Special Offer provides you with:

A single integrated framework that enables you to get the best out of: CobiT, ITIL, ISO27001/ISO27002, ISO20000, Prince2, PMBOK, TOGAF, IT Balanced Scorecards, the Zachman Enterprise Architecture, IT Portfolio Management, IT Dashboards and so much more,

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As the UK enters its new age of austerity with public sector organisations finding draconian budget cuts, organisations must ensure that its IT function acts an enabler of business, and must be fully aligned with business objectives.

ISO/IEC 38500:2008 provides guiding principles for directors of organisations on the effective, efficient and acceptable use of information technology (IT). These principles are designed to be used within their organisations.

Key benefits of ISO38500:

• The first international standard for IT governance
• It provides an efficient, well-thought-through and effective framework for IT governance, leading to better alignment of IT with organisational decisions
• Written in a generic manner, meaning that the advice and guidance in this standard is applicable no matter the size or type of organisation or whether it is in the corporate, public or not-for-profit sector
• Advice and guidance that is provided is not only applicable to directors, but also to their associated members of staff
• It provides essential guidance on the appropriate governance of IT to all key members of staff.

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This week only, with every order for the IT Governance Framework Toolkit, we’re giving away IT Governance: Implementing Frameworks and Standards for the Corporate Governance of IT!

The IT Governance Framework – Toolkit & Book Special Offer provides you with:

A single integrated framework that enables you to get the best out of: CobiT, ITIL, ISO27001/ISO27002, ISO20000, Prince2, PMBOK, TOGAF, IT Balanced Scorecards, the Zachman Enterprise Architecture, IT Portfolio Management, IT Dashboards and so much more,

• A framework to navigate your wide-ranging and complex strategic, risk management, compliance and operational needs;
• A step-by-step guide to cross-company implementation;
• Templates and assessment tools that will simplify many aspects of the process for you; and
• Practical guidance working with ISO/IEC 38500 and for integrating widely-used IT governance frameworks, including CobiT, ISO27001, ITIL and so on.
• A FREE copy of IT Governance: Implementing Frameworks and Standards for the Corporate Governance of IT when your order before midnight on Monday 31st May 2010!

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ISO/IEC 38500:2008 provides guiding principles for directors of organisations on the effective, efficient, and acceptable use of information technology (IT). These principles are designed to be used within an organisations.

Implementing an effective IT Governance framework, compatible with ISO38500, within an organisation has many benefits that can be directly attributed to bottom line savings.

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Order the ISO38500 IT Governance Framework Toolkit before the end of March and receive a free copy of IT Governance: Implementing Frameworks and Standards for the Corporate Governance of IT!

The IT Governance Framework – Toolkit & Book Special Offer provides you with:

A single integrated framework that enables you to get the best out of: CobiT, ITIL, ISO27001/ISO27002, ISO20000, Prince2, PMBOK, TOGAF, IT Balanced Scorecards, the Zachman Enterprise Architecture, IT Portfolio Management, IT Dashboards and so much more,

• A framework to navigate your wide-ranging and complex strategic, risk management, compliance and operational needs;
• A step-by-step guide to cross-company implementation;
• Templates and assessment tools that will simplify many aspects of the process for you; and
• Practical guidance working with ISO/IEC 38500 and for integrating widely-used IT governance frameworks, including CobiT, ISO27001, ITIL and so on.
• A FREE copy of IT Governance: Implementing Frameworks and Standards for the Corporate Governance of IT when your order before the end of March  2010!

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Order the ISO38500 IT Governance Framework Toolkit before midnight on Friday (29 January 2010) and receive a free copy of IT Governance: Implementing Frameworks and Standards for the Corporate Governance of IT!

If Information Technology is a part of your business, governance extends to and includes information and the IT infrastructure that supports your business. Shareholder expectations of boards, and of the individual directors on boards, are clear:
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• Is your business going to succeed or fail in the new age of intellectual capital?
• Will your board of directors meet its fiduciary responsibilities in terms of information technology?

If Information Technology is a part of your business, governance now extends to and includes information and the IT infrastructure that supports your business. Shareholder expectations of boards, and of the individual directors on boards, 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.
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For a very limited time only, (until Friday 13 November 2009), we giving away the following 2 essential guides free with the IT Governance Framework Toolkit:

• IT Governance – Guidelines for Directors; &
• IT Governance Today – a practitioner’s handbook.

Combining IT Governance Framework Toolkit with the two free guides will dramatically improve the way you implement IT governance in your organisation and will accelerate your project.

What’s included in the IT Governance Framework Toolkit?
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