COBIT 5 and Enterprise Governance of Information Technology: Building Blocks and Research Opportunities

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven De Haes ◽  
Wim Van Grembergen ◽  
Roger S. Debreceny
Materials ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken P. Chong

The transcendent technologies include nanotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and biotechnology as well as the enabling and supporting civil infrastructure systems and materials. These technologies are the primary drivers of the twenty first century and the new economy. Mechanics and materials are essential elements in all of the transcendent technologies. Research opportunities, education and challenges in mechanics and materials, including nanomechanics, carbon nano-tubes, bio-inspired materials, coatings, fire-resistant materials as well as improved engineering and design of materials are presented and discussed in this paper.


Author(s):  
Hélder Fanha Martins ◽  
Maria João Ferro

Given the growing demand for the use of teams as fundamental building blocks in organizations (Furst, Blackburn, & Rosen, 1999), particularly geographically distributed teams, it is essential to establish a means to ensure their high performance and productivity. The first step to improve our understanding of what makes these teams effective is to identify a series of best practices that should be followed by all those involved in what we call online collaborative teams (OCT): their organizations, leaders and members. OCT are groups of individuals who work on interdependent tasks, share responsibility for outcomes, and join their efforts from different locations. These teams are now being used by many organizations to enhance the productivity of their employees and to reach a diversity of skills and resources. Information technology can support their activities by reducing travel costs, enabling expertise to be captured where it is located, and speeding up team communication and coordination processes. Unfortunately, these distributed teams are not always productive.


2020 ◽  
pp. 104225871989941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean A. Shepherd ◽  
Marc Gruber

The lean startup framework is one of the most popular contributions in the practitioner-oriented entrepreneurship literature. This study seeks to generate new insights into how new ventures are started by describing the five main building blocks of the lean startup framework (business model, validated learning/customer development, minimum viable product, perseverance vs. pivoting, market-opportunity navigation), enriching the framework with existing research findings, and proposing promising research opportunities in a way that reduces the academic−practitioner divide. In so doing, we hope to enhance researchers’ understanding of the startup process; provide knowledge for educators; and, ultimately, improve the startup process for practitioners.


2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. P. Chong

The transcendent technologies, which are the primary drivers of the twenty first century and the new economy, include nanotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and biotechnology as well as the enabling and supporting civil infrastructure systems and materials. Mechanics and materials are essential elements in all of the transcendent technologies. Research opportunities and challenges in mechanics and materials, including nanomechanics, carbon nano-tubes, bio-inspired materials, coatings, fire-resistant materials as well as improved engineering and design of materials are presented and discussed.


2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
J. G. Kotzé

The dawn of the 21st century has given rise to a new competitive paradigm; brought about by globalisation, information technology and biotechnology developments and the work force revolution. This article identifies the shortcomings of traditional approaches to strategy formulation as measured against the demands of this evolving paradigm. The development of high potential strategic positions, the building and refining of distinctive competencies, the strengthening of strategic fit relationships, the maintenance of balance between the requirements of old and new business and the establishment and maintenance of a strategic thinking and learning culture are building blocks of strategic supremacy in the hypercompetitive 21st century.


Author(s):  
Hans Solli-Sæther ◽  
Petter Gottschalk

In this chapter on outsourcing opportunities, a common conceptual understanding of important issues of the business practice of our interest is established. First, we take a look at how researchers have defined the term outsourcing. An updated outsourcing definition will serve as a common platform for understanding the sourcing universe presented in the following section. Next, we describe in more detail the building blocks of the sourcing universe – insourcing, information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) outsourcing, business process outsourcing, transformational outsourcing, and global outsourcing. At the end of the chapter, we discuss some key aspects of the important outsourcing decision.


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
H Vernon Anderson ◽  

Computers are the necessary substrate for everything that occurs in cardiology and all of medicine, yet computer technology has been implemented in a piecemeal manner. Multiple single solutions have been introduced to solve individual problems, with no coherent planning for integration and communication across all the multiple computer platforms. Data and data elements are the building blocks of what we call information. In order to maximally utilize the enormous capacities that computers offer in handling information, the data elements must be precisely defined and stored in computers in a uniform manner. This requires data standards. In cardiology, national professional societies led by the American College of Cardiology are developing data standards along with necessary technical specifications that will help achieve the desired goal of a fully interoperable health information network.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Nina Fadilah Najwa ◽  
Tony Dwi Susanto

<p>Perkembangan transisi Teknologi Informasi (TI) saat ini menyebabkan penelitian terkait dengan tata kelola TI semakin meningkat.Tata kelola TI berperan besar dalam sebuah organisasi karena telah berubahnya peran dan relevansi TI dalam organisasi sehingga diperlukan pemahaman yang jelas terkait dengan tata kelola TI saat ini.Tujuan penulisan ulasanliteratur ini yaitu untuk mengulas perkembangan topik Tata Kelola dan peluang penelitian lebih lanjutterkait tata kelola TI sehingga dapat memberikan pemahaman tentang tata kelola TI. Metodologi yang digunakan pada ulasan literatur ini mencakup: 1) pendefinisian pertanyaan penelitian; 2) penetapan sumber literatur; 3) penentuan kata kunci pencarian literatur; 4) Pemilihan literatur; dan 5) ekstraksi data dan sintesis.Berdasarkan hasil ulasan literatur yang dilakukan, penelitian tata kelola TI secara luas diterapkan pada organisasi bisnis.Terdapat beberapa metode dan kombinasi dari beberapa metode yang digunakan dalam tata kelola TI, mencakup <em>Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies</em> (COBIT), <em>Information Technology Infrastructure Library</em> (ITIL), <em>Information Technology Balanced Scorecard</em> (IT-BSC), dan metode-metode lain. Tren penelitianyang saat ini banyak dilakukan mencakup <em>cloud computing governance, criteria success factor IT governance,</em> penerapan dan atau evaluasi tata kelola dengan berbagai metode pada sektor bisnis, tata kelola TI pada universitas, peran tata kelola dalam pemerintahan dan rumah sakit. Peluang penelitian direkomendasikan berdasarkan <em>future</em> dan limitasi dari masing-masing <em>paper</em> yang dibahas.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em><em>The development of the current Information Technology (IT) transition has led to more research on IT governance. IT governance plays a major role in an organization because it has changed the role and relevance of IT in the organization so that a clear understanding of current IT governance is needed. The purpose of this literature review is to review the development of Governance topics and further research opportunities related to IT governance so as to provide an understanding of IT governance. The methodology used in this literature review includes: 1) defining research questions; 2) determination of literature sources; 3) the determination of literature search keywords; 4) Selection of literature; and 5) data extraction and synthesis. Based on the results of the literature review conducted, IT governance research is widely applied to business organizations. There are several methods and combinations of several methods used in IT governance, including Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Information Technology Balanced Scorecard (IT-BSC), and other methods . Current research trends include cloud computing governance, IT governance success factor criteria, governance implementation and or evaluation with various methods in the business sector, IT governance at universities, governance roles in government and hospitals. Research opportunities are recommended based on the future and limitations of each paper discussed.</em></em></p>


Author(s):  
Steven De Haes ◽  
Wim Van Grembergen

Recently a new version of COBIT, the good-practice framework for enterprise governance of IT, was released. Although is it not always clearly articulated in its documentation, this new COBIT 5 framework incorporates many concepts and theories out of the IT and general management literature. This paper wants to position COBIT as a framework for enterprise governance of IT, and explores how the core principles and building blocks of the framework are derived from insights from theory and literature. This discussion could help or inspire other scholars to derive potential research questions and hypothesis around this practice-oriented framework, as a basis for future research programs.


Author(s):  
Mohamed A. Raouf

When an organization decides that it is time to invest in a digital transformation journey or even in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, it is going to make a big decision. This will significantly impact most elements that contribute to its success and growth. Organized and structured planning and preparation will be required from different aspects. This chapter describes the key success—or failure—factors in implementation focusing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). SMEs usually have limited time, resources, skills, and budget compared to large firms. Throughout the journey of transformation, they need to focus on scoping and contracting phases distinguishing between digital transformation and regular information technology contracts. This chapter defines the building blocks to have a successful transformation. Contracting and scoping are considered at the heart of managing the complete digital transformation journey.


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