The paper provides an overview of existing research related to the impact of IT quality on an organization's business excellence, as well as an analysis of the current IT status in a higher education institution in the Republic of Croatia. The article also describes methods of self-evaluating IT maturity levels within an organization and shows how the COBIT methodological framework can be used ...

Further to literature references, and building inter alia of COBIT, this document provides an analysis of the control objectives in respect of IT project governance. It is clear from project management literature that insufficient emphasis is placed upon project governance in its own right and that currently governance in respect of larger projects, if indeed it is implemented at all, is enacte...

Currently, organizations move from the need to produce high rates of profitability, by the satisfaction of their customers, partners or employees, and by the maintenance of high levels of competitiveness to enable them to face competition and ensure their survival. With the evolution of Information Systems and the Information Technology, increasingly organizations based its activities on these ...

Healthcare professionals currently working in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease (ACKD) units must cope with difficult situations regarding assisting patients with the dialysis decision-making process, and they are often untrained for these conversations. Although we have evidence from the literature that these skills can be learned, few professionals feel confident in this area. A Communication a...

-It cannot be denied that nowadays information is a very important asset for any modern organization. Therefore protecting its security is very important and becoming a top priority for many organizations. Unfortunately there is no single formula that can guarantee 100% of information security. Therefore there is a need for a set of benchmarks or standards to ensure the best security practices ...

(IT-)Berater stehen immer wieder vor derselben Herausforderung, nämlich, effizient und effektiv herauszufinden, wo beim Kunden (und seiner IT) Verbesserungspotenziale vorhanden ist. Dies führte im folgenden Beitrag für den IT-Bereich zur systematischen auf dem IT-GovernanceFramework COBIT beruhenden Entwicklung eines Werkzeugs und einer Methode zur Analyse von IT-Abteilungen. Ziel ist es, eine ...

IT Governance methods and frameworks have been applied in most large for-profit organizations since these enterprises realize the benefits of IT Governance for their business. However, former research and our own surveys show that frameworks such as ITIL and COBIT are not very well established in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) as well as in Emergency Management (EM) organizations. Thus, we ...

Does good IT governance improve the effect of IT? This paper presents the IT Organization Modeling and Assessment Tool (ITOMAT) which has been created to overcome operationalization and subjectivity weaknesses in the Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) framework. ITOMAT was applied to assess IT governance maturity in four case studies. Simultaneously, external metr...