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 of the Minitrack

• 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

• Business value creation through IT

• Business cases for IT enabled business investments

• CIO and IT leadership

• 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, CMMI 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

• ISO standard 38500 Corporate governance of IT

• Business (Corporate) governance of IT
   

Minitrack Chair:

Wim Van Grembergen
University of Antwerp
Prinsstraat 13
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
Phone: +32-3-220-4076
Fax: +32-3-220-4799
E-mail: wim.vangrembergen@ua.ac.be