The IT Skeptic - Comments for "The grey area between governance and management"

Governance is boring

JoePearson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:45:48 +0000

Governance is boring, says IT Skeptic

Well-known blogger the IT Skeptic rocked the IT management world on June 15th with the suggestion that governance may in fact be boring.

It's kind of a cliche, isn't it. I think governance fails to grab attention because working on the detail of governing seems too disconnected from its purpose - and very disconnected from what practitioners see as the real value of IT or ITSM. Perhaps this is also why "governance" gets co-opted to mean "management". http://www.itskeptic.org/node/633#comments

No comment...

kengon — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:42:05 +0000

Well,

I didn't find that there was a whole lot I wanted to say about it. I agree that it's important. Maybe the general reaction is the same.

kengon

The least popular post in a long time

skeptic — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:35:17 +0000

Well this is interesting. This is by far the least popular post I can recall: a total of 9 reads and no comments?

Governance is boring?
Or hair-splitting semantics is boring?

I think this stuff is important: ambiguity in roles, and especially in accountability, is a major under-miner of cultural change and process transformation.