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]

Results are here:
<http://www.ramin.com.au/itgovernance/straw-poll-ICT-roles-responsibilities.shtml>

further comments welcome.

Marghanita

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 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>
> 


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