of a keynote speech IT governance is one of those concepts that suddenly emerged and became an important issue in IT. In academic and professional literature, articles mentioning IT governance in the title began to emerge during the late 1990s. In the context of the leading academic HICSS conference, it was defined as the organizational capacity exercised by the board, executive management and ...

has been high on the agenda of organisations. Many projects regarding IT governance have been initiated in various companies and government institutions, to achieve better alignment between IT and the organisation and to obtain the necessary involvement of senior business management in the value creation from IT-enabled investments. Prior research has demonstrated a relationship between IT gove...

It’s increasingly acknowledged that firms cannot be competitive if their IT strategies are not implemented methodically. A number of proposals have been made to prioritize strategic IT plan executions and determine the most appropriate models and architectures. While IT governance primarily focuses on day-to-day IT operations, enterprise architecture primarily focuses on designing the future st...

In many organisations, information technology (IT) has become crucial in the support, sustainability and growth of the business. The pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT governance, which consists of the leadership, organisational structures and processes that ensure the organisation’s IT sustains and extends the organisation’...

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...

In recent years it has become questionable whether corporate boards are able to direct and control IT effectively. There seems to be a general lack of boardlevel information regarding IT which may lead to ineffective governance over it. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how this scenario relates to the agency problem and how agency theory may be used to offer a theoretical framework for a...