Strategies for Information Technology Governance

Publisher Marketing: In many organizations, Information Technology (IT) has become crucial in the support, the sustainability and the growth of the business. This pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT Governance. IT Governance consists of the leadership and organizational structures, processes and relational mechanisms that ensure that the organization's IT sustains and extends the organization's strategy and objectives. This records and interprets some important existing theories, models and practices in the IT Governance domain and aims to contribute to the understanding of IT Governance. Contributor Bio:  Van Grembergen, Wim Wim Van Grembergen is professor at the Business Faculty of UFSIA (University of Antwerp) and is a guest professor at the University of Leuven (KUL). He teaches information systems at the undergraduate and executive level, and researches in business transformations through information technology, audit of information systems, and IT evaluation. Dr. Van Grembergen presented at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) in 1997 and 1998 and at the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) Conferences in 1998, 1999 and 2000. He was Track Chair of "IT Evaluation Methods and Management" for the 2000 and 2001 IRMA-conference. He published articles in journals such as Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Corporate Transformation, Journal of Information on Technology Cases and Applications, IS Audit & Control Journal and EDP Auditing (Auerbach). He also has several publications in leading Belgian and Dutch journals and published in 1997 a book on business process reengineering in Belgian organizations and in 1998 a book on the IT Balanced Scorecard. Currently, he is editing a book on IT evaluation. He is engaged in the development of CobiT 3rd Edition. Until recently he was Academic Director of the MBA Program of UFSIA and presently he is coordinator of a master program on IT-audit. Professor Van Grembergen has consulted with a number of organizations and is a member of the Board of Directors of an IT company servicing a Belgian financial group.