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The Evolution of IT Governance
Until recently, each organization's IT functions, controls and processes were largely the organic bi-product of the culture and personalities of a series of executives and technical heroes. Based on this observation, it is not surprising to find the practices and definitions of IT Governance are vastly different from organization to organization. In some companies, an IT Architectural group is seen as responsible for the function of IT Governance. However, this function is typically limited to envisioning and setting standards for hardware and software. But don't ask these guys and gals to actually help you implement anything they have transcended the mundane. In other organizations, governance takes on the pure function of audit and policing. In these companies, limited guidance is provided on what, who and how. You just get your fingers rapped for misbehaving. While each of these elements plays a part in the concept of governance, there is a more holistic view of IT Governance emerging. IT Governance is really about establishing a vision and direction for IT that supports the business objectives and actually establishes an organization, structures and processes that make sure the individual components and domains play nice and work together for the common goal. One of these key structures is defining how to use the various best practice standards in an integrated fashion.The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. ~Douglas Adams
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