Business Strategy and Applications in Enterprise IT Governance

Business Strategy and Applications in Enterprise IT Governance

Wim Van Grembergen, Steven De Haes

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 350

ISBN13: 9781466617797|ISBN10: 1466617799|EISBN13: 9781466617803

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1779-7

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Within the IT-related business domain, it is important to advance theory building and practices regarding management and governance issues.

Business Strategy and Applications in Enterprise IT Governance emphasizes how organizations enable both businesses and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from IT enabled corporation investments. This publication distributes leading research that is both academically executed and relevant for practice in the professional IT and business community.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

A Research Journey into Enterprise Governance of IT, Business/IT Alignment and Value Creation (pages 1-13)

Wim Van Grembergen, Steven De Haes

Enterprise governance of IT is a relatively new concept in literature, and is gaining more interest in the academic and practitioner’s world. Enterprise governance of IT addresses the definition and implementation of processes...

Chapter 2

Analysing the Impact of Enterprise Governance of IT Practices on Business Performance (pages 14-36)

Steven De Haes, Wim Van Grembergen

Enterprise governance of IT (EGIT) is about the definition and implementation of processes, structures and relational mechanisms that enable both business and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT...

Chapter 3

Linking the Strategic Importance of ICT with Investment in Business-ICT Alignment: An Explorative Framework (pages 37-55)

Bjorn Cumps, Stijn Viaene, Guido Dedene

In this article, we introduce a framework that can be used by organizations as a positioning instrument to think of business-ICT alignment decisions in light of the strategic importance of ICT (Information and Communication...

Chapter 4

Structuring SOA Governance (pages 56-73)

Michael Niemann, André Miede, Wolfgang Johannsen, Nicolas Repp, Ralf Steinmetz

Companies’ IT Systems are confronted with constantly changing market conditions, new competitive threats and a growing number of legal regulations. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm provides a promising way to address...

Chapter 5

Professional Analysts and the Ongoing Construction of IT Governance (pages 74-86)

Johan Magnusson

This article addresses the role of the professional analysts as actors within the field of IT Governance. Through a content analysis of over 400 reports from the largest commercial research firm, instances of normative statements are...

Chapter 6

IT Governance: An Alignment Maturity Perspective (pages 87-101)

Jerry N. Luftman, Tal Ben-Zvi, Rajeev Dwivedi, Eduardo Henrique Rigoni

Aligning Information Technology (IT) and business has been a persistent and pervasive problem for over three decades. Studies show that one of the essential components for organizations seeking to improve their alignment maturity is...

Chapter 7

Explorative Study on the Influence of National Cultures on Business/IT Alignment Maturity (pages 102-122)

A. J. Gilbert Silvius, Steven De Haes, Wim Van Grembergen

A key success factor for a successful company in a dynamic environment is effective and efficient information technology (IT) supporting business strategies and processes. Organizations that successfully align their business strategy...

Chapter 8

Prioritising and Linking Business Goals and IT Goals in the Financial Sector (pages 123-144)

Steven De Haes, Wim Van Grembergen

In today’s complex and constantly changing business world, business/IT alignment is high on the agenda of executive management. To achieve such alignment, it is important that an organization should have a clearly established...

Chapter 9

Aligning IT/IS with Business Strategy Re-Visited: A View from Complex Adaptive Systems (pages 145-163)

Kevin Grant, Ray Hackney, David Edgar

This paper explores the co-relational process activities of information technology and systems (IT/IS) and business strategy alignment. The notion of “process” as being strategy and strategic alignment has been observed but not...

Chapter 10

The Viable Governance Model: A Theoretical Model for the Corporate Governance of IT (pages 164-181)

Edward Lewis, Gary Millar

Empirical studies into the governance of Information Technology (IT) have advanced our understanding of the mechanisms used to control the management of IT. However, there has been relatively little research into the formulation of a...

Chapter 11

A Conceptual Model for Aligning IT Valuation Methods (pages 182-201)

J. Gilbert Silvius

The relationship between IT and value is complex and often disputed. Researchers and practitioners have created numerous models and valuation methods to capture this value. Although payoffs from IT investment are a function of...

Chapter 12

Improving the Organizational Integration of IT Governance Tools: An Explorative Study (pages 202-217)

Hauke Heier, Hans P. Borgman

Why are many information technology (IT) governance software implementations challenged and what are the critical success factors (CSFs) for the rollouts? This question has recently gained importance, as IT governance is high on the...

Chapter 13

The Adoption of Open Source Desktop Software: A Qualitative Study of Belgian Organizations (pages 218-235)

Kris Ven, Geert Van Kerckhoven, Jan Verelst

More organizations are currently migrating toward open source desktop software (OSDS). However, such migration is complex. More insight into the process will assist decision makers in making a well-informed decision on whether or not...

Chapter 14

A Research Journey into Maturing the Business Information Security of Mid Market Organizations (pages 236-259)

Yuri Bobbert, Hans Mulder

Most information security methodologies are aimed at large enterprise organizations with a top-down structure, while relatively smaller organizations have insufficient knowledge to adopt this methodology. Most of the frameworks used...

Chapter 15

Detection of Strategies in IT Organizations through an Integrated IT Compliance Model (pages 260-279)

Antonio Folgueras Marcos, José Carlos Alva Tello, Belén Ruiz-Mezcua, Ángel García Crespo

In the past few years, many frameworks and standards have been developed to cover different aspects of IT to provide best practices, such as COBIT, ITIL, CMMI, ISO/IEC 20000, ISO/IEC 38500 and ISO/IEC 27000, and improve IT governance...

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