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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 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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Corporate governance increasingly provides the context within which twenty-first century organisations have to assess and deal with their investments in, and risks to, their corporate information assets and the Information and Communications Technology (ICT, or just IT) 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?

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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.
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