Information governance

Governance characteristics of information technology

Regulation through information technologies is growing in importance. Policymakers are addressing societal concerns such as privacy, freedom of speech, and intellectual property protection through the design of information technology. While scholars have noted the power of information technologies, there is little analysis of how people are affected or regulated by information technology. This ...

Information Systems Strategy and Governance

In software-intensive organizations, an organizational management system will not guarantee organizational success unless the business strategy can be translated into a set of operational software goals. The Goal Question Metric (GQM) approach has proven itself useful in a variety of industrial settings to support quantitative software project management. However, it does not address linking so...

Corporate Governance and Information Security

Information Disclosure and Corporate Governance

Disclosure is widely assumed to play an important role in corporate governance. Yet governance has not been the focus of previous academic analyses of disclosure. We consider disclosure in the context of corporate governance. We argue that disclosure is a two-edged sword. On one side, disclosure of information permits principals to make better decisions. On the other, it can create or exacerbat...

The Information City: A Framework For Information Systems Governance

Modern organizations face many external constraints arising from an external environment characterized by various economic, political, and technology-related forces that reshape business dynamics. Many authors have emphasized that information technology plays a critical role in maintaining competitive advantage of organizations. Agile Information systems are among the instruments proposed by ac...