IT Governance: Implementing Frameworks and Standards for the Corporate Governance of IT

Corporate governance increasingly provides the context within which twenty-first century organisations have to assess and deal with investments in, and risks to, their corporate information assets and the Information and Communications Technology (ICT/IT) infrastructure, within which those information assets are collected, manipulated, stored and deployed. But what is corporate governance, and why is it important to the IT professional? Why is IT governance important to the company director, and what do directors of companies – both quoted and unquoted – need to know?

This book will answer these vital questions and set out – for managers, executives and IT professionals – the practical steps necessary to meet today’s corporate and IT governance requirements.

The Calder-Moir Framework

The book also explains how to integrate each standard and framework using The Calder-Moir Framework (download for free from www.itgovernance.co.uk/calder_moir.aspx), which was developed specifically to help organisations manage and govern their IT operations more effectively, and to coordinate the sometimes wide range of overlapping and competing frameworks and standards. It also specifically supports implementation of ISO/IEC 38500, the new international standard for best practice IT governance.

• Gain practical guidance on deploying and navigating frameworks and standards
  Board executives and IT professionals can learn to maximise their use of the numerous IT management and IT governance frameworks and standards – particularly ISO/IEC 38500 – to best corporate and commercial advantage.
• Find out how to develop an overarching framework
  Within a ‘super framework’, or ‘meta -framework’, you can integrate each of these standards and frameworks whilst making sure that each can deliver what it was designed to do. Developing an overarching framework will enable your organisation to design IT governance to meet your own needs.

Buy this book to strengthen your business infrastructure and meet effectively today’s corporate and IT governance requirements.

Alan Calder is an international authority on IT Governance and CEO of the fast-growing UK based company, IT Governance Ltd. In association with Steve Moir, he originated the innovative Calder-Moir IT Governance Framework.