IT Governance Structures, Processes and Relational Mechanisms: Achieving IT/Business Alignment in a Major Belgian Financial Group

Public and Private Sector IT Governance: Identifying Contextual Differences

“…It is difficult to identify all the factors that influence the choice of these elements (De Haes & Van Grembergen 2005). The best possible mix of structures, processes and relational mechanisms will differ for each organization and depend on multiple contingencies including sector and the operating environment of the organization (Ribbers et.al., 2002).…”

“…The concept of IT governance emerged in the late nineties as a subject matter for academic research (see the works of Brown, 1997;Sambamurthy & Zmud, 1999;Peterson, O'Callaghan & Ribbers, 2000;De Haes & Van Grembergen, 2005). Before this body of work the use, monitoring and control of IT was largely encapsulated in IT management theories (see for example Watson, 1989).…”

A Model of Effective IT Governance for Collaborative Networked Organizations

“…Although there are studies on best practices and success factors of IT governance, they target a single organization (Ferguson et al, 2013;Ko & Fink, 2010;Rusu & Nufuka, 2011;Weill & Ross, 2004;Weill & Woodham, 2002). There are also studies that prove the importance of collaborative network IT governance and the business value of IT to the network (CamarinhaMatos et al, 2009;Rabelo & Gusmeroli, 2006;Prasad, Green, & Heales, 2012;Haes & Grembergen, 2005;Melville, Kraemer, & Gurbaxani, 2004), but these do not define CSFs or…”

“…There are numerous success factors, which are widely suggested by many researchers (Joshi, Bollen, & Hassinl, 2013;Weill & Woodham, 2002;Grembergen & Haes, 2005;Rusu & Nufuka, 2011), considered to be critical to IT governance effectiveness within organizations. These factors involve transparency and disclosure of IT-related information (Joshi, Bollen & Hassinl, 2013;Weill & Woodham, 2002), risk mitigation, handling and management (Joshi, Bollen, & Hassinl, 2011;Rusu & Nufuka, 2011) and raising governance awareness among employees and managers (Weill & Woodham, 2002;Rusu & Nufuka, 2011;Grembergen & Haes, 2005). Moreover, three key determinants were identified by Ferguson, Green, Vaswani, and Wu (2013) that positively influence the level of effective IT governance within an organization.…”

“…-IT Governance Structure: This structure can be viewed as how the IT function is carried out; for example, through designating responsibility to an IT executive and relevant IT committees (van Grembergen and de Haes, 2005). The IT governance structure is the single most important predictor of whether an organization will derive value from IT (Weill & Ross, 2004a).…”