MANAGEMENT OF IT GOVERNANCE

Management of IT Governance

Management of IT Governance

Introduction

Due to the progressively more dependence on the computer for nearly all things, appropriate management of Information Technology has not been seen as more significant as it has become today. Devoid of fine Information Technology supervision nearly all conceivable catastrophes could happen. This paper looks at the Information Technology managers' roles that they play within their organization's strategic and support infrastructures, the need for fine Information Technology supervision and a couple of companies, which remained unsuccessful at governance of Information Technology.

Discussion

Normally managers of Information Technology are additionally engages in the support infrastructures due to the purpose of Information Technology being the strategic infrastructure of the company. Therefore, managers of Information Technology have to be a strategic planning part so that they could decide if the system of Information technology could assist the plans of the company. The goal of an Information Technology manager must be for ensuring the alignment of the support infrastructure of the company with the strategic infrastructure of the company (Huhta, 2011). Within the past five decades, an expanding role has been played by technology within the life of majority of the organizations. The Information Technology role within companies has moved past its conventional role as a support towards an essential component of the companies' strategies (Henderson & Venkatraman, 1990). Governance of Information Technology is essential for maintaining control of the Information Technology infrastructure of the company. As mentioned within the article by the title of 'What is Information Technology Governance? And why is it important for the IS Auditor' the most important Information Technology governance goals are assuring that business value is generated by the investments within the Information Technology, and mitigating risks, which are connected to the Information Technology. This could be achieved through the implementation of an organizational structure in the company of roles that are well-defined for the responsibility if infrastructure, applications, business process and information (Boyd, Brisebois & Shadid, 2007). For instance, through the Soft Wares available for integration of enterprise, the enterprise systems of current era are able to integrate older legacy applications with the contemporary application that are based on the web (Rizky, 2009). An example could be that for handling the power dilemma challenge, more energy efficient servers are tapped by buyers in order to save a significant amount of money every year. Acknowledging the requirement for increased energy effectiveness, manufacturers of servers have been optimizing their architectures (their strategic infrastructures) and support infrastructures (Kadivar, 2011).

Governance can be defined as establishing chains of communication, responsibility, and authority for empowering the public. A close analysis of this description shows that the term 'governance' comprises of exchanging information, being held accountable for a particular decision, duty, or task, and providing official power for acting. Information Technology governance could be explained as entailing a couple of distinctive constituents. The process constituent, which described the rights of making decision linked to Information Technology in addition to the policies and mechanisms utilized for controlling and measuring ...