Question

Discuss the purpose of IT governance. How does IT governance vary from industry to industry or business environment to business environment? How do you determine the IT policies and procedures needed? Provide examples to support your answers.

Answer 1

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The purpose of IT governance:

This is an essential part in an organization which involve taking responsibility through sound decisions in order to support the investment through IT to achieve the origination's goals.

Provide a technical structure to show the need of an organization and offer a possible solution to the investment or problem.

It bring all stockholders onboard in order to communicate, set goals, and participate in the whole process to realize accountability on whatever they want to achieve.

When comes in the aspect of IT related issues like maintenance, preventive measure it this It governance that helps.

How they vary from industry to industry or business environment to business environment:

It vary from both industry to industry and from one business environment and this is due to different strategy in:

• The IT department - this entails the enterprise governance.
• The business itself - This are the objective of the organization.

This influence the result when striving to achieve the organization's goal.

For determining the IT policies and the procedures needed:

1. You identify the organizational need and objective then the policy are derived with respect to these needs and objective.
2. You assign the responsibility to each and every stakeholder base on capability.
3. Develop the of the information pertaining these policies.
4. Prepare and document a draft copy of this policies.
5. From the draft document you can consult on the document from the higher management or stakeholders.
6. Finalizing the task if you have any thing to change after the review in the above procedure, then getting a sign off from the stakeholders.
7. Then having it signed off you need to implement the policy and circulating it.

Example to support my answer

You cannot use organization accounts for your personal use in the IT organization.

Explanation:

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