BENEFITS OF IT GOVERNANCE
IT Governance allows organization to strategically plan, organize and support the delivery of high quality IT services. Strong IT governance promotes the extraction of maximum value from IT systems while allowing your organization to maintain effective security while adhering to regulatory requirements. Because it provides broad means to verify that strategic goals and requirements are being implemented simultaneously with effective day-to-day execution of quality operation, implementing IT governance delivers optimization and alignment.
In all, good governance results in organizations realizing the full value of their technology investments and keeping the IT infrastructure in line with strategy from a compliance and regulatory point of view.
COBIT 4.1
COBIT is a comprehensive framework guaranteeing the delivery of high quality IT services. The framework allows an organization to tailor its technology related activities into processes that cover various domains that are strategically important to implement and support the IT function within an organization. Although domains fall within the area of responsibilities the organization IT managers and are therefore crucial to securing senior management support for technology programs. As well domains are critical for non-IT to implement policies of a strategic nature but whose implementations must be propagated down the chain of technology infrastructure and its users while maintaining core values of security. COBIT offers a certain amount of flexibility as various organization do technology differently. It can adjust to size, strategies, location and above business and technology architecture. Its orchestration requires high-level managerial involvement while its depth encompasses end-users work flow.
It is therefore the primary tool allowing an organization manage risk strategically, operationally and at the user/system levels. It is the de-facto framework for internal control and IT related risk management. And being a high level also helps upper management to keep the organization compliant from a regulatory side.
DOMAINS, PROCESSES AND CONTROL OBJECTIVES
The framework uses 4 domains of activities subdivided into 34 Processes that are implemented by the introduction of their organic 318 documented control objectives.The 4 domains of activities covered by COBIT 4.1: Plan & Organize, Acquire & Implement, Deliver & Support, Monitor & Evaluate. It offers visibility into the IT alignment with the business strategy, that benefits are realized from the IT orchestration, that the organization use of IT and other resources is optimized (automation for efficiency), that risks are properly managed.It also allows an organization to measure the performance of its IT This maturity model is introduced for senior manger to rate their organization on IT level of optimization. This in itself offers the flexibility and ability to govern change organization-wide and to introduce innovation in order to adjust to evolving business environment challenges.
PLAN AND ORGANIZE
This strategic domain of activities ensure the methodical documenting of the organization IT strategic plan. It is required to develop a meticulous understanding the architecture with its technology baseline plans and processes.
ACQUIRE AND IMPLEMENT
This domain ensures acquisition and maintenance of technology infrastructure and applications. It requires
orchestrating the procurement function and selecting suppliers.
On the IT management side measures, activities and processes must be implemented in order to ensure properly managed change in configuration.
DELIVER AND SUPPORT
This section establishes strong support processes for the IT function;
introduction to the concept of service levels agreements,
the provisioning of training and educating users
and maintaining security and continuity of operations and services
MONITOR AND EVALUATE
providing robust IT governance stewardship is strongly emphasized around 7 control objectives that include strategic alignment , risk management, performance measurement and value delivery.
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