Guidelines for the Implementation of Enterprise Governance of IT

Abstract

There is no real “silver bullet” (the ideal way) for implementing and maintaining effective Enterprise Governance of IT within an organization. Having developed a high-level Enterprise Governance of IT model does not imply that governance is actually working in the organization. Conceiving the governance model is the first step, implementing it into the organization is the next challenging step. An important challenge is: how do you get started? This chapter provides some key success factors, guidelines to get started and outlines a balanced scorecard (BSC) for enterprise governance of IT, to manage and measure the outcome of the governance project. Readers, who are not familiar with the BSC perspective, should first read Chap. 4 on the IT BSC.