In order to successfully govern an enterprise, business and information technology must be aligned. With proper alignment comes many benefits, including improved risk mitigation and more effective use of IT resources. Undoubtedly, the challenge and complexity of this endeavour is enormous and has previously been addressed in research literature and by practitioners. The Strategic Alignment Matu...

This paper presents an application of a distributed service-oriented architecture (FIPER) to the preliminary design of gas turbine. In this application, a one-dimensional analysis code is wrapped into an interface to create a network service. Several of these services are distributed across a grid of workstations. The FIPER architecture uses a service catalog that registers all the services tha...

Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) has become one of the most important guidelines for information technology governance (ITG), which provides organizations with a useful tool to start evaluating their own ITG systems. COBIT introduces an ITG framework and supporting toolset that allows IT managers to bridge the gap between control requirements, technical issues a...

IT Governance has become an increasingly important process in delivering business value from IT. A number of IT governance frameworks have been proposed as the MIT – CISR framework and COBIT. However, there is no proposal of a systematic methodology for IT Governance assessment and design, considering the possibility of joint usage of multiple frameworks. This paper presents a systematic method...

The role of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) in healthcare necessitates a formal process of defining and updating the Information Systems Strategy (ISS). SISP enables the identification of a portfolio of computer-based applications for the execution of business plans and realization of business goals. This paper presents a processand practiced-based approach to SISP at a pharmaceut...

Nowadays, the successful implementation of ICTs is vital for almost any kind of organization. Good governance and ICT management are essential for delivering value, managing technological risks, managing resources and performance measurement. In addition, outsourcing is a strategic IT service solution which complements IT services provided internally in organizations. This paper proposes the me...