A corporate governance perspective on IT governance

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IT governance encompasses the processes for aligning business and IT efforts to accomplish optimal value from the business by means of the implementation of effective IT control and accountability, performance and risk management. Despite IT governance awareness in recent years, there is a lack of a holistic view of the organization’s IT governance that could help board directors to have an overall map of the current situation and anticipate the further steps needed to raise its level of maturity. This text proposes a classification scheme for IT governance according to two orthogonal dimensions: the stakeholders’ perspective (from corporate board to end-users) as well as the primitives that are an object of IT governance. The proposed scheme, evolved from enterprise architecture research, is in line with other solutions aimed at aligning the business and IT within organisations.

Keywords: IT Governance, Corporate Governance, Control and Accountability, Risk Management, Enterprise Architecture

JEL Classification: M15

Received: 28.04.2021
Accepted: 03.05.2021

How to cite: Correia, A., & Água, P. B. (2021). A corporate governance perspective on IT governance. In S. Hundal, A. Kostyuk, & D. Govorun (Eds.), Corporate governance: A search for emerging trends in the pandemic times (pp. 107–114). https://doi.org/10.22495/cgsetpt19