I.T Governance

IT Governance is an internal IT strategy used to analyze and prioritize current and future IT projects through the IT governance process. It involves assessing current projects, defining future vision, and ensuring project road maps are structured properly. “Good governance enables you to make and implement better decisions faster, and provides the foundation for weaving together business and IT strategies (Broadbent, Kitzis, 2005).

IT monarchy is fitting governance for the decisions like aligning security procedures to IS architecture specifications, where corporate IT (Individuals or groups of IT executives. ) takes the title role and is responsible for specifying the configuration, consistency in protection & achieving competency among the components according to the need of the organization (Saunders, 2013). University of the Southeast did followed the IT Monarchy archetype by making Information Technologies and Resources (IT&R ) responsible for taking decisions regarding IT architecture & security Infrastructure by providing computer services, telecommunications, multimedia support across the campus (Saunders, 2013). The decision making power were entirely in the hands of IT&R. If IR&R had tried to provide the faculty with the decision making right of having control on archiving their own emails or choosing their preferred e-mail address or changing their email address printed in the university directory

IT governance incorporates ideas and information about the way you execute your business strategy. It is about how you operationalize and capitalize on market opportunity. It is only at the lowest levels of division that IT governance is about decision rights, compliance, regulations, standards, and policies. And while not to minimize the extreme importance of these elements for IT governance, I do declare that if your IT governance solution is primarily about being compliant, etc., and secondarily about business execution, then neither your IT organization nor your business is likely to benefit from your implementation. You will have missed the opportunity that IT governance offers.

Chapter 4: Results and Data Analysis.......................................... page(s) 69-91 • Introduction • Issues Categorization • IT Issues Database • Survey Respondents • Analysis of General IT Data • Analysis of Primary Data

This case study goes through the evolution of IT governance at Cisco and the related project management. This case is a classic example of the result of a decentralized governance of business units. What happened to CISCO due to the decentralized governance, how the business processes were modified to overcome the chaos created by the decentralized governance and how the employees and management reacted to this change in CISCO’s business governance? This case clearly illustrates the effect of a totally decentralized governance and how changing to a centralized governance leads to unrest and resistance. It also illustrates how the cultural/managerial change effects the business decisions needed to be made

In my analysis of the case Volkswagen of America: Managing IT Priorities (Austin, 2007), I will examine the dilemma faced by the Digital Business Council (DBC) members with respect to recommendations to the IT steering committee (ITSC) and the CIO, Dr. Uwe Matulovic. I will analyze two alternatives and the unfunded project, and provide recommendations.

In this way, competitive use of IT will no longer happen and each specified IT groups can be more concentrated on specified tasks which improves the efficiency, what’s more, the alignment between BU-CIO and EVP facilitate the formation of visioning network, which is vital to IT governance. Thus IT resources and priority are well managed.

I.T governance can be implemented by using a mixture of strategies which involve structure, process and relationship mechanisms. When implementing I.T governance it is very important to understand that every organisation is different and have different internal and external factors which may be conflicting. There for there needs to be a mix of the right of mechanisms. This can often be a very complex and challenging task. One mix of strategies may not work for another company and may need different structures, relationship and process mechanisms. To help show the relationship between each mechanism the Peterson model can be used. The structures section of the framework entails the functions IT executives and IT communities are responsible for. Processes involve monitoring and making of strategic decisions. Relationship mechanisms control participation between I.T and business sectors, shared learning and also communication.

In explaining institutional control over individuals through social theory, Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault present distinctive arguments with the theory of everyday practice and theory of power, respectively. The college classroom setting can be used as an example to apply each theory to the theme of institutional control.

Benefit and weakness at the same time is the IT Governance plan for one year. The problem is that often the complete planning cannot be done within one year and hence the plan may not be in coherence with the overall long-term business strategy. For instance, current decisions are done about types of applications and numbers of servers which are used and this is based on a yearly revision. In the long-run Richter may face serious problems due to extreme high costs in training and implementation, because purchased applications in past years have to meet the increased demand. A possibility to decrease these costs may include smarter

The new process that was instituted to prioritize IT projects at Volkswagen of America is very well organized. It takes an IT project and looks at it from multiple aspects, from business to IT. It also allows for several departmental entities to play a more active role in tying in business objectives with stated benefits of the IT project. As stated in Applegate, “IT governance is the effort to devise an overarching and integrated approach, addressing broad themes such as operating performance, strategic control, risk management, and values alignment.” (Applegate, 403) In

This portfolio focus on what I have learned during the whole IT Strategy and Control paper, a critical reflection of this paper would be provided. This reflection includes the key points, support reference and the demonstration of my own understanding about the paper itself and all of my personal understandings are based on the learning outcome of this paper. In the first part of this portfolio, I would discuss all the key IT Operations Management framework which have been introduced in the paper, the analysis of the processes based on my own understanding would be given. In the second part, analyze processes required for aligning IT infrastructure and operations with the business goals of an organization would be talked about, and I would focus a business organization which has been mentioned in the caselets as a sample. In the third part, some critical evaluate operational IT organizations and their processes against the studied models would be listed and analyzed. In the last part, the recommendations and analysis of my own would be given against those organizations (caselets) which have some problems and current issues arising from the implementation of the IT framework.

IT Governance is one of these ideas that all of a sudden developed and turned into an imperative issue in the data innovation zone. A few associations have begun with the usage of IT Governance keeping in mind the end goal to attain the combination in the middle of business and IT. This paper portrays how an association can execute IT Governance, utilizing a mixture of methods, structures and social components, and investigations the IT Governance usage at KBC, a major Belgian budgetary gathering.

A model of governance is one that in an elementary school is on a smaller scale and involves hierarchical system with a pastor at the top. In my experience at the larger, high school level, the governance system involves more of a collaborative model where there is still a hierarchy feel, yet all within the system are valued and share in the responsibilities of running the high school.

Using my personal knowledge and experience, the following reflection will state why the ten values highlighted above are important in leadership and governance. After each explanation there will be an example to support the reasoning. The reflection will use “the government” as a leader to reflect on leadership and governance. Specifically, the government will refer to any ministry at the provincial level and it is not specific to one leader, to a group of leaders (members of provincial parliament, ministry, public servants etc.) or to a particular organization (ministry, unit, department etc.).