E-MailPress Release: Stat of the Week -- Which one of the following best describes IT governance in your organization?
Which one of the following best describes IT governance in your organization?
Dennis Adams, Associate Professor, Decision and Information Sciences, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, discusses how the size of an organization often determines the governance structures in place. "In our survey, we asked respondents to describe IT governance in their organizations. If we look at the data set as a whole, we see that 38% describe it as being "fragmented across the organization," and 24% say that no formal set of processes is in place. However, when we split our data set into large and small companies, a different picture emerges: 43% of small organizations feel that there are no formal IT governance processes in place, while only 15% of large organizations suggest this. This is probably the most salient outcome of this study, namely, that as organizations grow, the need to create a governance structure for IT emerges. This structure, however, is not ideal. For these large organizations, 40% feel that the process is fragmented and only 20% say the processes are based upon best practices."
*Excerpted from "IT Governance in 2009: A Thorn in IT's Side" Cutter Benchmark Review, Vol. 9, No. 9.