1. Edition - December 2005
65.90 Euro
2005. 304 Pages, Hardcover
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN-10: 0-471-74359-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-74359-0 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
Because of the business value attributed to information technology, the high costs of this technology and the problems arising in the e-business experimental phase, IT is an example of a domain in which governance is necessary. This book is about a realistic governance of information and IT in corporations. The authors' view is that "new technology" can only achieve its optimum impact when it is properly managed. Money and behvavior are key factors: the money that information and IT must generate and the activity and latitude of people in the organization from top to bottom. Everything is ultimately measured against the performances that determine the organization's success.

From the contents
PART ONE: MANAGEMENT: GOVERNANCE AND ITS HUMAN DIMENSION.

Chapter 1. Types of Governance, Business Performance, and Common Sense.

Chapter 2. Impact and Challenges of Betrayed Trust.

PART TWO: ACCOUNTABILITY: AN ECONOMIC-BASED BUSINESS FOCUS FOR IT.

Chapter 3. A Basis for IT Management.

Chapter 4. IT Portfolio Management.

Chapter 5. Activity-Based Costing, Economic Value Added, and Applied Information Economics.

PART THREE: SUPERVISION: STIMULATING DESIRABLE BEHAVIOR.

Chapter 6. Take Action When Necessary.

Chapter 7. Leadership: Overseeing Change.

Chapter 8. Issuing Rules is Maintaining Supervision.

Chapter 9. Frameworks and Accountants as Means of Supervision.

Appendix A: From Control to Drift.

Appendix B: Cobit IT Governance Maturity Model.

Appendix C: Ten Definitions of Corporate Governance in the European Member States.

Appendix D: KIMBIA, the Portfolio Model of Rabobank Nederland: Management/Business ICT Alignment Implementation Chains.

Index.