The growing importance of enterprise risk management and the resulting integration efforts put the need for separate IT risk management frameworks in question. In this research we analyse common and distinct elements of the COSO enterprise risk management and ISACA Risk IT frameworks. The analysis affirms the hypothesis that separate IT risk management frameworks are redundant.

decriminalization limits and narrows the sphere of criminal law through two methods: to eliminate the criminal description of special behavior (a) and to remain or not remain it in the public jurisdiction of other formal control mechanisms (b). if it is left in the public jurisdiction, it requires non-criminal sanctions. therefore, decriminalization is a process that at least, has got two outlo...

Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) is an approach to requirements engineering dealing with intentionality in accordance with the relations among different actors. KAOS and i* (i-star) frameworks have been receiving many references as being important GORE proposals. This paper presents an conceptual analysis comparing characteristics of those methods giving examples related to actors’...

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S ADAGE THAT AN OUNCE OF PREvention is worth a pound of cure is worth remembering at this worrisome time for health care and the economy. The prevalence of chronic illnesses in the United States is projected to increase, from 133 million persons in 2005 to 171 million in 2030. Health care spending accounts for 16% of the gross domestic product and may reach 25% by 2025. Rising...

Given the importance of IT investments in today’s organization, firms tend to spend increasing amounts of time and resources to better manage IT projects. However these projects continue to have high failure rates thus highlighting the need for improved risk management. A stream of IS research has focused on identifying several causes of managerial risks. The theory base that has been used in t...