COBIT Implementation Guide

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cope. It provides an implementation guide.

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In this video, we're going to talk about Kobe IT principles to implement a governance program and recommendations.

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Kobe provides guidance and recommendations for implementing an I T governance program within an organization.

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Thes practices are important to ensure your i t governance is useful, comprehensive and remains relevant to the organization.

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One guidance is not to separate business and I t related activities.

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This is not a good practice to silo I t. As often the I T department plays a role in almost every department, depending on your organization.

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Thus separating I t from business related activities does not allow i t to support the attainment of overall business objectives and goals that the enterprise desires.

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Another guidance is to implement the I T governance program as an integral part of corporate governance in order to cover the business end to end and I t functional areas of responsibility.

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In the first module, we went over how corporate governance and what that ISS.

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It is a way in which to combine the interests of stakeholders into rules, policies and processes into an organization.

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Corporate governance encompasses information governance and I t governance

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Consequently, I t governance should be seen as an integral part of corporate governance to cover the business in a comprehensive manner.

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Additionally, cope it guides that enterprises need to have an executive buy in to implement i t. Governance

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Without executive buy in, you will not have adequate direction, time and resource is to meaningful e implement a governance program.

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Thus, it's essential that executives realize and communicate the importance of this program and allocate inappropriate budget time and resource is for implementation.

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Why do you think it's important to have executive buy in that specific to your business that maybe I didn't address

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cope? It stresses the importance of program management as an integral part of the implementation lifecycle.

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You will need a program manager that fulfills the overall design that addresses the governance and management objectives.

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Without that, things may become unorganized, slipped through the cracks and can mean ultimately that the ICTY governance program is implemented

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in a half manner or it doesn't fulfill the overall governance and management objectives that set by the organization.

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Lastly, Kobets suggests that organization should empower business I t stakeholders and role players to take ownership of I T related governance and management decisions.

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You may be able to get valuable insight and allow for the organization to adopt and adapt to the I T governance program company wide.

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Empowering more people to make decisions can lead the company to have better insight as to how the program should be implemented.