IT Governance

Governance determines who makes the decisions.

defined corporate governance as providing the structure for determining organizational objectives and monitoring performance to ensure that objectives are attained

average, when moving from poorest to best on corporate governance, firms could expect an increase of 10 to 12 percent in market value.

We define IT governance as specifying the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in using IT

we place IT in an organizational context as one of the six key assets (human, financial, physical, intellectual property, IT, and relationships) that must be governed to create value