IT governance is an executive level concern in many enterprises today, but a method for credible, reliable, and cost-efficient IT governance maturity assessment has been lacking. Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (Cobit) is best practice in the area, but the method requires an experienced analyst to perform the assessment and the provided analysis framework is vague and ...

Strategic alignment is a conviction that is considered extremely important in understanding how organizations can apply their arrangement of information technology (IT) into substantial boosts in achievement. To attain alignment advantage, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) prepares a framework of best practice approch for IT Service Management in all countries and Control Obj...

To fit the ever-changing business context, developing large scale networked and collaborative strategies involve increasing both enterprise and information system agility and interoperability. At the same time, lean and six sigma theories have also been used in industries to improve the industrial process itself so that profitability, quality and reputation are increased. In order to achieve th...

IT Governance hat zum Ziel, dass die Unternehmens-IT die Strategie und Geschäftsziele des Unternehmens möglichst effizient unterstützt. Um dies umzusetzen, existieren mehrere international anerkannte Verfahren und Standards wie z.B. COBIT, ITIL oder ISO 20000. Diese sind jedoch konzeptionell gehalten und machen meist keine Vorgaben zur technischen Umsetzung. Dieser Beitrag untersucht, wie mit H...

The existence of the enterprise architecture is an attempt of managing and planning over the evolution of information systems in the sphere of an enterprise with model-based. In developing the enterprise architecture, there are several tools definition of components in the system. This tool is known as enterprises architecture (EA) framework. In this paper, we present a method to build a model ...

In large-scale SOA development projects, organizations utilize Enterprise Services to implement new composite applications. Such Enterprise Services are commonly developed based on service design methodologies of a SOA Governance process to feasibly deal with a large set of Enterprise Services. However, this usually reduces their understandability and affects the discovery by potential service ...

As organisations strive to improve their capabilities in the areas of Service Management and Service-oriented Architectures (SOA), SOA Governance is becoming an increasingly important success factor. However, the concept of SOA Governance is complex and not well-understood, and the adoption of an adequate SOA Governance approach in an organisation can be difficult. Tools that support SOA Govern...

In this paper, after giving a brief definition of Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), ISO 27001, IT governance and COBIT, pros and cons of implementing only COBIT, implementing only IS

With the increasing dependence of enterprises on IT, and with the widely spreading use of e-business, IT governance is attracting increasing worldwide attention. A proper IT governance would promote enterprise performance through intelligent and efficient utilization of IT. In addition, standard IT governance practices would provide a suitable open environment for e-business that provides compa...