Implementing Information Technology Governance: Models, Practices and Cases: Models, Practices and Cases

Van Grembergen, Wim · De Haes, Steven

Sep 2007 · IGI Global

About this ebook

In many organizations, information technology (IT) has become crucial in the support, sustainability, and growth of the business. This pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT governance.

Implementing Information Technology Governance: Models, Practices and Cases presents insight gained through literature reviews and case studies to provide practical guidance for organizations who want to start implementing IT governance or improving existing governance models, and provides a detailed set of IT governance structures, processes, and relational mechanisms that can be leveraged to implement IT governance in practice.

About the author

Wim Van Grembergen is a full professor at the Economics and Management Faculty of the University of Antwerp (UA) and executive professor at the Antwerp Management School (AMS). He teaches information systems at master and executive level, and researches in IT governance, IT strategy, IT performance management and the IT balanced scorecard. Within his IT Alignment and Governance (ITAG) Research Institute (www.uams.be/itag) he conducts research for ISACA/ITGI on IT governance and supports the continuous development of COBIT and VAL IT. Currently he is evolved in the development of COBIT 5. Dr. Van Grembergen is a frequent speaker at academic and professional meetings and conferences and has served in a consulting capacity to a number of firms. He has several publications in leading academic journals and published books on IT governance and the IT balanced scorecard. His most recent book Enterprise Governance of IT. Achieving strategic alignment and value is published in 2009 (Springer, New York).

Steven De Haes (PhD) is a professor of Information Systems Management at the University of Antwerp Management School (UAMS) and the Economics and Management Faculty of the University of Antwerp (UA). He has teaching assignments in many executive and master programs in the domain of IT governance, IT assurance, strategic alignment, value creation, IT performance measurement, etc. Dr. De Haes is actively engaged in applied research within the IT Alignment and Governance (ITAG) Research Institute (www.uams.be/itag) and acts as an advisor to firms in these domains. He has several publications in leading academic and professional journals and has presented research results at many international conferences. In 2009, he co-authored with Wim van Grembergen the book Enterprise Governance of IT: Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value (Springer). [Editor]