Transforming Enterprise IT: Speaker Name/Title Date

Transforming
Enterprise IT
Speaker Name/Title
Date
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IT Requires Executive Oversight
With good reason:
• An apparel manufacturing company’s difficulties in installing

supply chain software cost it an estimated US $200 million
• A publicly traded company admitted that a virtual collapse of its

financial reporting system reduced its market value by one-third
in a single day
• An operational meltdown after the merger of two transportation

companies was traced to the inability to coordinate their IT
systems
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Oversight Can Lead to Value Creation
IT can provide significant benefits, too:

• A major airline’s supply chain transformation improved the
forecast of demand, reduced procurement costs and increased
service levels while costs fell
• A technology products and services company saved US $12

billion over two years by linking up disparate pieces of its supply
chain, thereby reducing inventory levels

IT Governance Is the Key Issue
• Enterprises are sacrificing
money, productivity and
competitive advantage by
not
implementing effective IT
governance
• Executives need a better

way to:
– Direct IT for optimal
advantage
– Measure the value provided
by IT
– Manage IT-related risks

®
COBIT is a Road Map to Good IT Governance
• Accepted globally as a set of tools that ensures IT is working

effectively
• Functions as an overarching framework
• Provides common language to communicate goals, objectives
and expected results to all stakeholders
• Based on, and integrates, industry standards and good
practices in:
– Strategic alignment of IT with business goals
– Value delivery of services and new projects
– Risk management
– Resource management
– Performance measurement

Developed by the Leader in IT Governance
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
Professional association with 86,000 constituents.

Worldwide leader in IT governance, control, security
and assurance.
Offers the CISA, CISM and CGEIT certifications.

®
COBIT Business Benefits
COBIT® provides guidance for executive

management to govern IT within the
enterprise
• More effective tools for IT to support business goals
• More transparent and predictable full life-cycle IT costs
• More timely and reliable information from IT
• Higher quality IT services and more successful projects
• More effective management of IT-related risks

Harmonising the Elements of IT Governance
IT
Governance
Resource
Management

A Closer Look at

COBIT® Answers Key Business Questions
Is my information technology
organisation doing the right things?
Are we doing them the right way?
Are we getting them done well?
Are we getting the benefits? *
* Based on the “Four Ares” as described by John Thorp in his book The Information Paradox,
written jointly with Fujitsu, first published in 1998 and revised in 2003

®
The COBIT Framework

®
COBIT Defines Processes, Goals and Metrics
Relationship
Amongst
Process,
Goals and
Metrics
(DS5)

Defined Responsibilities for Each Process
RACI Chart
A RACI chart identifies who is Responsible,
Functions
Accountable, Consulted and/or Informed.
Activities
A/
Link business goals to IT goals. C I
R
I C
Identify critical dependencies and current A/

C C R C C C C C C
performance. R
Build an IT strategic plan. A C C R I C C C C I C
Build IT tactical plans. C I A C C C C C R I
Analyse programme portfolios and manage

C I I A R R C R C C I
project and service portfolios.

®
COBIT Products and Their Primary Audience
COBIT, Risk IT and

Implementing and
Val IT frameworks
Continually Improving
IT Governance
COBIT User Guide for
Service Managers
COBIT and
Application Controls

®
COBIT Harmonises Other Standards
• COBIT is often used at the highest level of IT governance

• It harmonises practices and standards such as
ITIL, ISO 27001 and 27002, and PMBOK
– Improves their alignment
to business needs
– Covers full spectrum of
IT-related activities
27001/2

Used by Organisations Worldwide
‘We continue to recommend that enterprises use [COBIT]
to challenge their established IT governance procedures
and to improve the controls they have in place.’
—Gartner
also used by Allstate, Harley-Davidson,

the Bahrain Civil Service Bureau and many others
(for complete case studies visit www.isaca.org/cobitcasestudies)

Getting Started
Visit www.isaca.org/cobit to download the COBIT® framework

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With good reason:

• An apparel manufacturing company’s difficulties in installing

• A publicly traded company admitted that a virtual collapse of its

• An operational meltdown after the merger of two transportation

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IT can provide significant benefits, too:

• A technology products and services company saved US $12

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• Executives need a better

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• Accepted globally as a set of tools that ensures IT is working

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Control Objectives for Information and related Technology

Professional association with 86,000 constituents.

 2009 ISACA All Rights reserved. 6

COBIT® provides guidance for executive

• More effective tools for IT to support business goals

• More transparent and predictable full life-cycle IT costs

• More timely and reliable information from IT

• Higher quality IT services and more successful projects

• More effective management of IT-related risks

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Are we doing them the right way?

Are we getting them done well?

Are we getting the benefits? *

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Identify critical dependencies and current A/

Build an IT strategic plan. A C C R I C C C C I C

Build IT tactical plans. C I A C C C C C R I

Analyse programme portfolios and manage

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COBIT, Risk IT and

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• COBIT is often used at the highest level of IT governance

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also used by Allstate, Harley-Davidson,

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