May 7, 2009
After you have the organization following your core IT processes (more on that here), you are ready to add effective IT governance to increase productivity and alignment. Before you do this, make sure that you squash any of these five attitudes that may exist in your teams that will implement governance – they will virtually eliminate any chances you have for success. “We are here to govern you” The primary goals of governance is to ...
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April 14, 2009
My good friend Peter Weill, Chairman of MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), defines IT governance as “specifying the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the use of IT.” In a perfect system, desirable behavior would be the norm and governance would deal with the exceptions. Unfortunately, in many organizations, the reverse is true. Consider the results of a question from Diamond’s most recent Digital IQ survey asking for indications ...
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