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What is IT Governance

Chapter 268
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
The set of enabling mechanisms to request, prioritize, sponsor, fund, monitor, and enforce IT investment decisions.
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IT Governance
Hans P. Borgman (ESC-Rennes School of Business, France)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch268
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Chapter 70
Architectural Framework for the Implementation of Information Technology Governance in Organisations
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Chapter 18
The Influence of IT Governance Mechanisms and Value-Based Selling in an IT Supplier-SME Collaboration
The strategic alignment of IT with the business to enable an organization to achieve its goals.
Published in Chapter: The Influence of IT Governance Mechanisms and Value-Based Selling in an IT Supplier-SME Collaboration; From: Handbook of Research on Business Model Innovation Through Disruption and Digitalization
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Chapter 50
The Strategic Determinants of Shared Services
IT governance is the system and structure for defining policy and monitoring and controlling the policy implementation, and managing and coordinating the procedures and resources aimed at ensuring the efficient and effective execution of services.
Published in Chapter: The Strategic Determinants of Shared Services; From: Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology
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Chapter 8
Big Data Governance in Agile and Data-Driven Software Development: A Market Entry Case in the Educational Game Industry
The processes that ensure the effective and efficient use of IT in enabling an organization to achieve its goals.
Published in Chapter: Big Data Governance in Agile and Data-Driven Software Development: A Market Entry Case in the Educational Game Industry; From: Big Data Governance and Perspectives in Knowledge Management
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Chapter 1
Leading Digital Transformation in Higher Education: A Toolkit for Technology Leaders
The way that a campus defines roles and accountabilities for information technology; this process typically encompasses policies and standards for the multiple technology domains such as security, project management, IT procurement, data, enterprise resources planning, etc.
Published in Chapter: Leading Digital Transformation in Higher Education: A Toolkit for Technology Leaders; From: Technology Leadership for Innovation in Higher Education
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Chapter 52
Bi-Directional Business/IT Alignment
Framework function for the administration, organization, and control of IT in enterprises and public organizations.
Published in Chapter: Bi-Directional Business/IT Alignment; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 14
Bi-Directional Business/IT Alignment
Framework function for the administration, organization, and control of IT in enterprises and public organizations.
Published in Chapter: Bi-Directional Business/IT Alignment; From: Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Business Operations and Management
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Chapter 31
Architectural Framework for the Implementation of Information Technology Governance in Organizations
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Chapter 24
Internal Auditing for Information Assurance
IT governance can be defined as the structure of relationships and processes to direct and control the enterprise. IT governance helps the organization achieve its goal by adding value while balancing risk and return over IT and its processes (ISACA, 2004).
Published in Chapter: Internal Auditing for Information Assurance; From: Handbook of Research on Information Security and Assurance
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Chapter 25
IT Governance in the Public Sector in a Developing Country
An integral part of enterprise governance and consists of the leadership and organizational structures and processes that ensure the enterprise’s IT sustains and extends the organization’s strategies and objectives.
Published in Chapter: IT Governance in the Public Sector in a Developing Country; From: Handbook of Research on ICT-Enabled Transformational Government: A Global Perspective
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Chapter 6
IT Strategic Grid: A Longitudinal Multiple Case Study
Set of methods and techniques for reaching full alignment between business strategy and IT strategy.
Published in Chapter: IT Strategic Grid: A Longitudinal Multiple Case Study; From: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches in Management and Organizational Strategy
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Chapter 606
Trends in Information Technology Governance
1) Locus of IT decision-making authority (narrow definition). 2) The distribution of IT decision-making rights and responsibilities among different stakeholders in the organization, and the rules and procedures for making and monitoring decisions on strategic IT concerns (comprehensive definition).
Published in Chapter: Trends in Information Technology Governance; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 12
Aligning Strategic-Driven Governance of Business IT Services With Their Agile Development: A Conceptual Modeling-Based Approach
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