CHAPTER 4: OVERVIEW OF COBIT 5 – GOVERNANCE OF ENTERPRISE IT
‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’
Isaac Newton(1643-1727)
This chapter explains the basic concepts that make up COBIT 5.
Why COBIT 5 was developed
Within a year of COBIT 4.1 being published in May 2007, the international Standard ISO/IEC 38500: 2008 Corporate Governance of IT was published. It was at this point that some ISO/IEC 38500 insiders started to express in public that the COBIT 4.1 framework which incorporated powerful IT governance approaches such as business goals driving IT goals driving IT processes was really only IT management rather than IT governance. This concern was addressed in February 2009 by an article by Gary Hardy, one of ...
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