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Addressing the ingredients of a governance system

Addressing the ingredients of a governance system

From the course: Learning COBIT

Addressing the ingredients of a governance system

- [Presenter] To satisfy governance and management objectives, each enterprise needs to establish, tailor, and sustain a governance system built from a number of components. Components are factors that individually and collectively contribute to the good operations of the enterprise's governance system over information and technology. I like to think of these components as ingredients to any IT governance system. There are seven components of a governance system identified in the COBIT framework. These include processes, organizational structures, information, people, skills, and competencies, principles, policies, and procedures, culture, ethics, and behavior, and services, infrastructure, and applications. These components interact with each other resulting in a holistic governance system. They can be of different types. Of course, the most familiar are processes. Processes describe an organized set of practices…

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