Straw Poll of the Role of IT and other Professionals in the Governance of ICT - was Re: [LINK] IT can lead to big savings: Tanner

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Linkers,

One of the difficulties with the Governance of ICT
is to engage the right skills and knowledge, at the right time.

What has also emerged, is that the risk management approach
is flawed in that it does not allow for uncertainty (1) and ignorance (2).

The Australian Standard(3), identifies a wide range of advisors :-

*Senior Managers,
*Members of Groups mnitoring the resources within the organization
*External business or technical specialists, such as legal or accounting
specialist, retail assocations, or professinal bodies.
*Vendors of hardware, software, communications and other ICT products.
*Internal and external service providers (including consultants)
*ICT Auditors

I am interested in your thoughts (to the list or offlist) of the specific
role/contribution/responsibilities of various disciplines/professions in the
governance of ICT.

I will provide a summary of the results on the
Ramin Communications Website and be
using them in my paper to ET GOVICT2008 (4)

Marghanita

(1)Implementing a plan to Counter Project Uncertainty  Rice Oconnor Pierantozzi
MIT Sloane Management Review Winter 2008
(2)<http://www.publicservice.co.uk/pdf/pfi/winter2001/p152.pdf>
(3)<http://www.ramin.com.au/itgovernance/as8015.html>
(4)A Conference on the Ethical Governance of ICT and the Role of Professional
Bodies, 1 - 2 May 2008
<http://www.cappe.edu.au/upcoming-events.htm#ETGOVICT2008>

-- 
Marghanita da Cruz
http://www.ramin.com.au
Phone: (+61)0414 869202


Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> <snip>
>> IMHO, economists should keep their hands off IT systems, they've done 
>> enough damage already and they have been trying to save money since 
>> well before 1995. They would be better off letting departments make 
>> their own decisions within a framework of technology and data 
>> standards, rather than diverting management attention away from real 
>> problems and towards fighting off unnecessary interference.
> <snip>
> 
> It would appear the feeling is mutual. From 2002:
> 
>> The biggest surprise of the conference was the tongue-lashing the 
>> industry received from the Commonwealth Bank chief executive David 
>> Murray.
>>
>> The speech, which was peppered with popular swipes at Microsoft, 
>> culminated in him blaming the US IT community for "single-handedly 
>> wrecking the world economy through an over-hyped market which lead to 
>> unrealistic investments".
>> His company outsources most of its computing systems to EDS and is a 
>> significant buyer of IT products and services. 
> 
> <http://www.tapsns.com/news.php?newsid=12>
> 
> Marghanita


-- 
Marghanita da Cruz
http://www.ramin.com.au
Phone: (+61)0414 869202