Boards and executive management have long known the need for enterprise and corporate governance. However, most are beginning to realize that there is a need to extend governance to information technology as well, and provide the leadership, organisational structures and processes that ensure that the enterprise’s IT sustains and extends the enterprise’s strategies and objectives.

ISACA recognized this shift in emphasis in 1998, and formed the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) to focus on original research, publications, resources and symposia on IT governance and related topics. In addition to the work carried out by the ITGI, ISACA addresses the topic through a regular column in and occasional dedicated issues of the Information Systems Control Journal, conference sessions and tracks, and education courses.

COBIT 5 Design (Exposure Draft)

Enterprise Value: Governance of IT Investments
The Val IT publications help those with an interest in value delivery from IT. The series of three volumes is available for free download:

• Getting Started With Value Management
• The Val IT Framework 2.0
• The Business Case

• Value Management Guidance for Assurance Professionals: Using Val IT™ 2.0
• Val IT™ Mapping: Mapping of Val IT™ 2.0 to MSP™, PRINCE2™ and ITIL® V3

SharePoint® Deployment and Governance Using COBIT® 4.1

Implementing and Continually Improving IT Governance
This publication enhances, expands and improves on the content of the prior ISACA IT Governance Implementation Guide Using COBIT^® and Val IT™, 2nd Edition publication. It incorporates valuable references to cutting edge research from the recent ISACA publications The Val IT™ Framework 2.0 and The Risk IT Framework, as well as from the recently issued ISO/IEC 38500 standard on IT governance. This guide provides an approach for implementing and maintaining effective IT governance in such a way that the implementation team can get started in an effective and efficient manner.

The tool kit zip files for ISACA members now contain 22 supporting documents in various formats. The tool kits include an Excel Process Maturity Tool based on the COBIT maturity model and designed to provide practical support for its use, highlighting the need to address IT governance, perform a gap analysis and identify areas to mature.

Cloud Computing Information/Resources

An Executive View of IT Governance
During May to August 2008, more than 250 interviews were conducted in 22 countries with executives of both large and small companies in a variety of industry sectors.
Ultimately, the responding executives affirmed their belief in the need for IT governance, discussed its relationship to enterprise governance, and indicated how well they are achieving one of the cornerstones of IT governance: alignment of business and IT strategy.  The publication concludes with an additional layer of analysis, assigning index scoring to clusters of similar data sets.

ITGI™ Enables ISO/IEC 38500:2008 Adoption
This document explains the practical implications of each principle of ISO/IEC 38500:2008–Corporate governance of information technology, together with how ITGI’s guidance enables good practice. It summarizes how COBIT, Val IT and related guidance support adoption of the standard’s principles and implementation approach. A list of currently available products and web links is included in this document.

IT Governance and Process Maturity
This project achieved the research objective of developing robust benchmark information and providing a means for organizations to answer the question, ‘How do we compare with our peers?’

Unlocking Value: An Executive Primer on the Critical Role of IT Governance
The guide explains what IT governance is and why it is important. It describes the key players in the enterprise in IT governance and explains how effective IT governance is implemented. It provides guidance on determining the current enterprise IT governance status and steps for improvement.

New Book From ITGI Provides Missing Element in Information Integrity Frameworks
An organization’s information and other intangible assets account for more than 80 percent of its market value, according to the IT Governance Institute® (ITGI®). As a result, impairments to the integrity of information can be devastating to a company and its senior executives, who are held increasingly accountable for their organization’s financial information.