Chapter 5IT Governance Building Blocks

DOI: 10.4324/9781003377023-7

IT governance is the organizational function that ensures IT demand and capacity are well managed. The demand for IT resources in every organization is almost infinite. Every day, an end-user, a departmental manager, or a division leader thinks, “wow, wouldn’t it be great if IT could …” Or they read a blog post about a new application, a new device, or a new capability and think it would be great to implement. They might see an opportunity to improve their operations through deploying technology in a different way or deploying a new technology altogether.

We cannot control organizational demand; it will always be near infinite and budgets will never be. However, we can manage ...

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