IT Governance

An organization finds itself in a constantly changing environment. Thus theimportance of information and dependency of Information Technology isgrowing. In times of increasing information density and due to theworldwide web organizations seem to act without any time limitations ortrading borders. With strong competition on buyers' markets and decreasingprice margins the effective and efficient utilization of IT is a necessity tostrengthen business performance to achieve corporate goals and to realizecompetitive advantages.Therefore IT has to be adjusted to corporate goals and strategies. Businessand IT have to move in the same direction. A relatively new topic in this areais IT Governance which provides a set of tools and guidelines to build up aframework to manage information and IT to support and boost businessperformance and goals.This book is based on the question: Is IT Governance an innovative solutionfor Information Management and as such another step in its evolution; or isIT Governance a new topic alongside the development of InformationManagement?This book addresses students as well as practitioners who are interested ingetting an overview of the origin scope and impact of IT Governance.