Der Einführungsbeitrag definiert die Begriffe IT-Alignment und ITGovernance. Er ordnet die folgenden Beiträge in den Gesamtkontext ein und beschreibt ihre zentralen Inhalte.

IT governance aims to align business and information technology strategies. Organizations adopt IT governance to ensure efficiency, decreased costs and increased control of IT infrastructures. Some believe that IT governance will improve organizational accountability, thereby resulting in return on investments. IT governance frameworks, such as COBIT and ITIL, are internationally accepted and p...

The Minitrack “IT Governance and its Mechanisms” within the “Organizational Systems and Technology” Track is introduced at the HICSS conference in 2002. The goal of this Minitrack is to enhance publications on the issue of IT governance and its mechanisms. It is expected to get submissions from academics and practitioners involved in research on IT governance, Business/IT alignment, IT Balanced...

This research examines the factors that are important to the corporate governance of information technology. It focuses on those aspects of IT management that will be relevant to senior management and governing boards. The paper uses data from a survey of 817 Australian commercial and industrial organisations, and analyses the responses to questions about a number of key processes identified by...

©2008 EDUCAUSE. Reproduction by permission only. Our respondent institutions embodied all of the diversity of mission, public/private control, organizational structures, and cultures that typify North American higher education. As we’ve noted from time to time in this study, there is plenty of room, and plenty of direction from common sense, to adapt IT governance structures to institutional ne...

IT management of today only to a surprisingly low degree is based on sound methods. Rather it is considered still as an art attributed to the capabilities of individual managers. On the other hand, there is little academic support for the challenges of IT management. To fill this obvious gap, various best practice frameworks have been developed. These frameworks cover both support of management...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically rethink the concepts and the theoretical foundations of IT governance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on multiple case studies. Eight cases of outsourced information system projects where failures occurred were selected. An outsourced information system failure (OISF) is suggested as ...

The importance of business processes and the increasing centrality of IT to an organization’s performance have called for a specific focus on business process governance and IT governance in contemporary enterprises. Despite the wide scope of business process management, which covers both business and IT domains, and the profound impact of IT on process innovations, the association between busi...