IT governance is a board-led management framework - not a software 'solution' or a single, proprietary framework - for making IT an integrated, value-adding part of the business.

This book assesses the strengths and weaknesses - in the context of competitiveness, corporate governance demands and regulatory requirements - of current frameworks (including COSO, CoBIT, ITIL, ISO 15000, ISO17799, AS 8015, GAISP).

The book contains a substantial chapter on the role of the CIO and an optimum management structure (including CKO, CTO, CISO, etc) for the IT department that brings together all the key roles and responsibilities.



It also looks at essential tools such as the

IT balanced scorecard,
the Baldridge criteria,
capability maturity models (including CMMI and OPM3),
the Zachman Framework for enterprise architecture,
project governance (including portfolio management, OPM3 and agile project management methodologies),
operational risk and risk management frameworks such as Basel2 and the Treadway Commission's ERM,
financial concepts in the IT environment such as ROI and TCO,
IT performance optimisation,
IT audit
and so much more.