Don't Just Lead, Govern: Implementing Effective IT Governance

Don't Just Lead, Govern: How Top-Performing Firms Govern IT

Top-performing enterprises succeed in obtaining value from IT where others fail, in part, by implementing effective IT governance to support their strategies and institutionalize good practices. IT governance involves specifying decision rights and accountabilities for important IT decisions. The goal is to encourage “desirable behaviors” in the use of IT. In studying the IT governance of more ...

IT Financial Management-Cost transparency and effective IT governance

Effective information technology (IT) governance mechanisms: An IT outsourcing perspective

Effective IT governance will ensure alignment between IT and business goals. Organizations with ineffective IT governance will suffer due to poor performance of IT resources such as inaccurate information quality, inefficient operating costs, runaway IT project and even the demise of its IT department. This study seeks to examine empirically the individual IT governance mechanisms that influenc...

How to Govern your Green IT? - Validating a Contingency Theory Based Governance Model

Although practitioners have begun to implement Green IT into their companies, the governance of sustainable information systems varies significantly. Only little has been done to explain these differences in Green IT governance. Building upon contingency theory and IT governance, we develop a contingency model for Green IT governance which demonstrates the fit between contingencies and the comp...

A Model of Effective IT Governance Structures for Developing Economies

The level of IT investment amongst organisations in developing economies is increasing. Growing evidence however, indicates, that the majority of these economies still fail to capitalise on their IT investment to source business values. For business values to materialise, effective governance of IT related resources is paramount. This entails that the presence of effective IT governance (ITG) s...