Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack: IT Governance and its Mechanisms

In many organizations, information technology has become crucial in the support, sustainability and growth of their businesses. The pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT governance. IT governance is the organizational capacity exercised by the Board, executive management and IT management to control the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and in this way ensure the fusion of business and IT. The minitrack "IT governance and its mechanisms" is soliciting papers on theories, models and practices in the IT governance domain and aims to contribute to the understanding of IT governance and its structures, processes and relational mechanisms.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Theoretical models for IT governance and business/IT alignment
* Practices and cases on IT governance
* IT governance structures, processes and relational mechanisms
* IT governance related to enterprise governance
* IT governance roles of the Board and Executive Management
* Maturity models for IT governance and IT processes
* IT balanced scorecard
* Business/IT alignment through the balanced scorecard
* E-metrics
* Strategic information systems planning
* COBIT, VAL IT, ITIL and other quality models
* Other mechanisms for IT governance: IT steering committees, information economics, service level agreements, .
* IT governance and regulatory codes/acts such as Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley
* Business (Corporate) governance of IT

Chair:
Wim Van Grembergen(Primary Contact)
University of Antwerp
Prinsstraat 132000 Antwerpen, Belgium
Phone: +32-3-220-4076
Fax: +32-3-220-4799
Email: wim.vangrembergen@ua.ac.be