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“Organisations that don’t allow staff access to social networking websites risk alienating the next generation of workers”
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Research from Hyphen indicates that almost half of those under 25 would not join a company with strict social media policies. The report highlights the fact that young workers starting out on the career ladder have high expectations regarding technology and social media, 60% of which recognise social networking sites such as Linkedin improve their effectiveness.

Some managers believe that staff waste their time on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and view it as a dangerous distraction. However, the Hyphen report contradicts this popular belief, concluding that over half of all those polled who have access to social media at work, said that they spend less than 10 minutes per day on it for their personal use, and 1/3 saying they spend no at all time during work hours.

In fact, social media could be an effective marketing channel for your business. Many companies now have an online presence on social media websites, allowing them to connect with their customers more easily whilst increasing brand awareness.

There does however need to be a policy, to ensure that your employees know the boundaries. The ITG Social Media Governance toolkit helps organisations create an effective governance structure around their social media activities. Social media is, for many organisations, a critical part of how they speak to customers, partners and stakeholders; for others, social media is a dangerous distraction.

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IT governance is the managing of IT within organisations. It draws strongly upon frameworks such as ITIL, CobiT, ISO 27002, PRINC2, TOGAF etc. to ensure businesses are run to the best of their ability.

While, on their own, none of these frameworks are completely adequate to that task, yet together they result in complete governance compliance. The challenge, for many organisations however, is to establish a co-ordinated, integrated framework that draws on all three of these standards.

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IT governance will be the single most important business topic of the next five years. Make sure you’ve prepared for success.

If Information Technology is a part of your business, governance now extends to and includes information and the IT infrastructure that supports your business. 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 organisation, and want to spend less than one day of consultant cost for dramatic improvements, then buy the IT Governance Framework Toollkit today.

Shareholder expectations of boards, and of the individual directors on boards, are clear:

1. The board of directors will actually direct the management of the company, including strategic and IT business plans and fundamental structural changes;
2. The board will see to the hiring of competent and honest business and IT managers;
3. The board will understand the business of the firm and develop and monitor a business and IT strategy;
4. The board will monitor the managers as they carry out the strategy and the operations of the company;
5. 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;
6. The board will operate with basic honesty, care, and loyalty; and
7. The board will take good-faith steps to make sure the company complies with the law.

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The IT Governance framework ‘COBIT’ is soon to be updated to version 5. We’re offering you the chance to stay ahead of the game with our unique COBIT 5.0 update seminar, where you’ll learn about the new enhancements, the changes from 4.1 and how to plan an approach to migration.

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COBIT 5 has been in development for 2 years and extends COBIT 4.1 by incorporating the governance activities of ISO38500, Val IT, Risk IT, BMIS and ITAF.

This is first COBIT 5 review event to be held in the UK and is presented by Geoff Harmer who is a licensed trainer for COBIT with ISACA, and is also an accredited lecturer for ITIL with the Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB).By attending the COBIT 5.0 update seminar you will learn:

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