Current issues in IT governance

Abstract

Nowadays most of organizations of all sizes and sectors rely on informationprovided from IT to achieve their business goals. IT has a vital role to play on businessperformance. However, business may fail due to inefficient alignment of IT to businessrequirements. Organizations may do not focus on the integration among business strategy /ITstrategy and clearly state business/IT collaboration in the organization. On the other hand,they focus on IT costs and related expenditures. These issues drive the need of IT governancewhich ensures IT functions are working efficiently to push towards business goals. ITgovernance practices aims to converting high cost of IT investments to a lucrative valuebusiness. Other practices such as corporate culture, accountability and recognizing/managingrisks can be considered as good practices too. This discussion paper attempts to present someIT governance practices.