IT Governance Archive
THE KING CODE OF GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES (known as KING 3 or KING III) is still (in my opinion) the most advanced and useful of the world’s corporate governance codes. I’m a particular admirer of the fact that the King Committee …
As I see it, those organisations that survived 2008 are only going to get through 2009 if they manage cash really carefully. Cash management is only useful if it takes into account the full range of possible risks faced by …
The Top Ten Predictions for Green IT in 2009 are based on Gartner’s view that the combination of economic meltdown and Obama’s commitment to eco-friendly policies will drive a signficant increase in Green IT activities and investment in 2009. Our recent …
Some evidence is emerging that that ISO/IEC 38500, the best practice standard for IT governance, is catching on. We’ve certainly seen steady demand for copies of the ISO38500 standard itself, as well for the ISO38500 Pocket Guide and, more importantly, …
To help Human Resources and Training Managers get the most from their budgets we have introduced our new IT Governance Training Passports. In a single purchase, these allow organisations to acquire any combination of IT training, tools and support services …
The Realtime IT Compliance blog carried a significant post the other day – the first signs of US civil lawsuits against companies losing customer data. In this case, it is a $54 million claim against Best Buy for losing a …
I read in ComputerWeekly that the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee is to re-open its inquiry into e-crime and the security of personal data, apparently due to the Government’s “vacuous, idle and irrelevant” response to its initial recommendations. …
I have written before about the uncertain leadership and consequent weak governance at the top of the NHS IT reform programme. Yesterday, we heard that director general Richard Granger has indeed finally left his role. But as to who takes …
We have seen a lot of media interest this week in the poll we recently did on the issue of IT governance, which underlined how few boards currently have their arms around this important responsibility. Some of the articles to …
Also from ComputerWeekly, Chief Information Officers need to take a leading role in setting up formal information classification schemes to stop them over-engineering them to comply with security regulations, according to a report from the Information Security Forum. Well, yes …
