Maintaining IT's Corporate Impact Through a Governance Framework

Posted June 30, 2007 | Leadership | Leadership |

IT'S TWO ROLES

Information technology is a basic commodity for most businesses. It enables practically every function, from electronic stock trading to supermarket cash registers, which in effect places it on the same footing as other basic services such as the physical plant or human resources. That placement also argues that IT has no role in the strategic management of the organization.

About The Author
Nancy Mead
Nancy Mead is senior member of the technical staff in the Networked Survivable Systems Program of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and a faculty member in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Mead is currently involved in the study of survivable systems architectures and the development of professional infrastructure for software engineers. Her research interests are in the areas of software… Read More
Bille Shoemaker
Dan Shoemaker
Dan Shoemaker is the Director of the Institute for Cyber Security Studies, a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence, at UDM. Dr. Shoemaker is a well-known speaker and writer in the area of cyber security. He is a professor at UDM, where he has been the Chair of the computer and information systems program since 1985. He is also a visiting professor in cyber security at London Southbank University. His PhD is from the… Read More
Antonio Drommi
Antonio Drommi is the Associate Director for the Centre for Assurance Studies at UDM, a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance. Mr. Drommi has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems at UDM since 2002. He lectures on various subjects in the software management and IT discipline. One of Mr. Drommi's research and lecture interests is human factors in IT and its relationship to information assurance and… Read More
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