The IT Skeptic - Comments for "Governance support"

I know what you mean...

JamesFinister — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:28:43 +0000

....the possible catch though is it makes "governance support" tasks sound even more like an overhead rather than a value add. we can of course debate if governace can be a value add - I've asked elsewhere if it makes sense to talk about ROI for IT governance.

letting people use the word

skeptic — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:19:17 +0000

Governance support is indeed part of management, but people insist on calling it governance. By labelling it "governance support" one makes clear that it isn't governance while still letting people use the word

Imposing structure on reality

JamesFinister — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:00:54 +0000

In my "proper" audit days I always took the view that I would never ask a manager to produce information for me as an auditor that they shouldn't already be producing for themselves as a manager. i think that holds good for governance. On the other hand it can help to formalise the link in order to keep the governors doing governance. I find ISO 38500 useful because it really focusses on what governance is about.

James Finister

Suspect of Governance Support as a not neede concept

Federico — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:44:05 +0000

Skep,
in my view the concept of Governance Support does not need to be added if you take into consideration the relationship between IT Governance ad Management. You have evaluated this in a positive way some time ago, naming Mark Toomey. On the basis of this relationship I think that policy enforcement, strategic planning, measurement, audit , reporting - that is correct to consider as parts of operations that support IT Governance - can be considered as components of the Management, that is controlled by the IT Governance and that in fact supports it
Federico

You & me against the philistines of debasement

Charles T. Betz — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:28:01 +0000

My blog has been subtitled "Enabling IT Governance" for some years now, following exactly the same thought process.

Charles T. Betz
http://www.erp4it.com