IT Governance: Guidelines for Directors

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1 Brochure More information from IT Governance: Guidelines for Directors Description: IT is far too important to be left to the IT department! Your business will stand or fall on the quality of its IT governance. Information technology can enable you to improve your operations and cut costs. And by changing the way you deal with your customers, IT may even have the potential to transform your entire business. However, IT involves an element of risk. For the sake of your bottom line, these risks are something your company needs to be capable of managing. Corporate governance: The banking crisis has thrown the spotlight on corporate governance. All too often, corporate governance is understood in the boardroom only as a financial issue. The reality is that the IT function is vital to the running of your business, so the issue requires leadership from the people at the top. Breaches in information security have the potential to alienate your customers and to damage your company's reputation. Unless your company is protected from cybercrime, the consequences could cripple your business or lead to heavy financial losses. Failure to comply with the information security provisions of corporate governance codes may even cause your company to be denied a presence in entire countries. The road to information security goes through corporate governance. This means that information security has to be a specific board-agenda item, and a priority at CEO level. Intellectual capital: Technology is revolutionising business and society. While you can easily judge how much a factory is worth, some of your company's most important assets may be the intangible ones. The real worth of your company is a matter of its intellectual capital as well as the sites and machinery in its possession. In today's world, the ownership of information patents, designs, databases is more important than ever. This kind of information is held on computer systems. So your company needs to be as serious about protecting its digital information from industrial espionage and cybercrime as it is about protecting its warehouses from robbery and arson. A business enabler: Having an effective IT governance framework in place will help you to safeguard your company against an information security breach. At the same time, your IT governance framework can open doors for your business. When there is widespread concern about identity theft, taking information security seriously is a way for you to attract new custom. Adoption of global best practice in regard to risk management is now essential for gaining access to the world's largest capital markets. Ultimately, an effective IT governance framework is a business enabler. By ensuring that your IT systems are properly integrated with your business, and in harmony with your overall business goals, your company will be in a far better position to drive through changes and improvements. Establishing an IT governance framework is essential for the success both of IT projects and for the larger projects that need support from across the whole organisation. Benefits to business include: - Give your business an edge; If you can make your company stand out for how well it protects customer privacy and customer data, you can give it a competitive advantage. - Bolster corporate governance: In almost every organisation, financial reporting depends on the IT infrastructure, so how can you separate accounting from computing? Compliance with the major corporate governance codes makes it easier for your company to operate internationally. You cannot achieve this compliance without effective IT governance - Protect your intellectual capital: Once business information is stored in digital form, it is exposed to new kinds of risk. Ultimately, information security is something for which the board of directors and the CEO are responsible. A careless attitude

2 towards information security will end up damaging your company. If you want to protect your business information from cybercrime, you need to make information security a specific boardroom issue. - Fuse your IT systems with your strategic goals: Nothing runs itself, not even a computer, and the idea that IT can magically create an entire new market went out with the dot-bomb era. Technology is only a tool. It can only transform a business when the board is determined to make that happen. So if you want your IT systems to work for your business, then the people at the top have to be in control of them. As the author comments, The key benefit of an effective, integrated IT governance framework is the leap forward in competitiveness that is achieved through the complete integration of IT into the strategic and operational management of the organisation. Buy this book and start making your IT systems work for your business! IT Governance: Guidelines for Directors is only available in Adobe ebook format Contents: Introduction - Symptoms of inadequate IT governance - Key boardroom issues: - Competitiveness - Shareholder accountability - Compliance - Directors' personal liability 1. Why IT governance matters - Governance background - Information economy, intellectual capital - Competitiveness - Governance convergence - Strategic & operational risk management - Regulatory compliance - Information risk - Strategic system deployment & project governance - Benefits of an IT governance framework 2. Governance and risk management - Fiduciary duties - Governance frameworks - OECD Principles - BIS and Basel 2 - Operational Risk - Capital markets & financial reporting convergence - Converging audit requirements - UK Companies Act EU 8th Company Law Directive - Corporate Governance in Europe - Combined Code and Turnbull Guidance - The Turnbull Report - Revised Combined Code - Sarbanes Oxley - Internal controls and audit - Risk management framework - Risk assessment - Controls - Risk management - Conclusions 3. Intellectual capital - Knowledge assets - Tangible relevance - Structure of intellectual capital

3 - The role of IT governance - Beyond knowledge management - Protecting intellectual assets - Third party IPR - Conclusion 4. Compliance - Privacy and Data Protection - OECD Guidelines - Tomorrow - National regulation - EU, UK, US, APEC regulation - Anti-spam legislation - Freedom of Information legislation - Computer Misuse legislation - Human Rights - Other legislation - Record retention and destruction - Conclusion 5. Information Risk - Overview of threats and impacts - Information security governance - Complexity, and larger organizations - Threats to larger organizations - Vulnerabilities in larger organizations - Impacts on larger organizations - Traditional' external threats - Traditional' insider threats - Organised Crime - Terrorism - Emerging trends - Information security best practice - The need for metrics - Guidelines for Directors 6. System deployment and project risk - Project failure - Project governance objectives - Execution risk - Executive level project governance - Board level project governance - Conclusions 7. Designing an IT governance framework - Business context and culture - IT governance framework - Business, information and ICT strategies - IT Steering and executive committees - Hierarchy of IT decision making - Reporting and monitoring framework - External management systems and standards - Metrics 8. IT Governance in action - Operationalization' of strategy - Responsibility and accountability - IT goals, functional organization & communication - Information strategy ICT strategy - Application strategy - Enterprise IT architecture - Project governance

4 - Portfolio management - Risk management - Change management - Information security and compliance - IT performance optimisation 9. Issues for the public sector and not-for-profits - Public sector organizations - Voluntary sector organizations 10. It's all about leadership - Board leadership - CEO leadership - CIO leadership - IT users Further reading Useful websites ITG Resources Index Ordering: Order Online - Order by Fax - using the form below Order by Post - print the order form below and send to Research and Markets, Guinness Centre, Taylors Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland.

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