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The governance landscape: Steering and measuring development organizations to align with business strategy

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/feb07/ericsson/index.html

Maria Ericsson, IBM Rational Services, 15 Feb 2007. From The Rational Edge: Are you seeking a clear explanation of organizational governance? This paper describes different levels of governance and how they affect critical management concerns such as productivity and risk. It also explores the link between good governance and the ability of software development organizations to align their processes with business strategy.
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Teaming up for SOA

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/05/10FEcollabgov_1.html

By Phillip J. Windley: Governance policies chiseled in stone aren't SOA, they're DOA. Here's how to keep governance collaborative and effective.
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Systems of Systems: Scaling Up the Development Process

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/06.reports/06tr017.html

Abstract: Some systems have some but not all properties of systems of systems (SoS). We refer to these as SoS-like systems. This report reviews the fundamental process and project-management problems of large-scale SoS-like programs and outlines steps to address these problems. The report has eight sections. Section 1 summarizes current thinking on the nature of future complex systems, and Section 2 discusses the systems-design problems of the future, particularly the partitioning of massive systems into system-of-systems structures. Section 3 points out how large-scale systems development efforts have typically failed because of project-management and not technical problems, and that the solutions to these problems are known and highly effective, but not widely practiced. It explains why, if the project-management problems of the past are not promptly and effectively addressed, large-scale systems development programs will likely be unmanageable. Section 4 discusses the requirements for a scalable process, and Section 5 both reviews and explains the quality-management principles upon which any scalable process must rest. Section 6 reviews the nature of the project-management problems currently faced by large-scale software-intensive system development efforts and explains why attempts to scale up current methods to very large-scale systems work will almost certainly fail. Section 7 describes process strategies for supporting development of a network-like system of systems and it outlines the process and project-management topics needing further research and development. Finally, Section 8 reviews the process considerations for supporting the very large-scale integrated development programs of the future. The report concludes that, unless steps like those outlined in this report are taken in conjunction with continuing technical research and development, the large-scale systems development efforts of the future will almost certainly fail, and often catastrophically.
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A helping hand with IT governance

http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RSS/Articles/2006/09/19/218517/A helping hand with IT governance.htm

There’s no need for wrong turns on the road to achieving effective IT governance. Frameworks can offer a clear path to better risk management and value. Within many organisations IT governance is up there with military intelligence and rap music as one of the great oxymorons of our time.
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SOA governance and the prevention of service-oriented anarchy

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0609_col_simmons/0609_col_simmons.html

Success with SOA, at an enterprise level, mandates adoption of a robust and disciplined governance framework. Although organizations may differ on the specific functions enabled within their governance model, a common set of capabilities needs to be addressed for SOA. This column discusses the need to build effective governance frameworks while examining customer examples.
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Enterprise Architecture as Strategy

http://architectureasstrategy.com/

New book from Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson. Top performing companies like 7-Eleven Japan, Cemex, ING DIRECT, Toyota, and UPS are using enterprise architecture to reduce costs while increasing strategic agility. Based on interviews and surveys at over 150 companies, this book describes how leading companies use architecture to guide the evolution of a core foundation of IT systems and business processes.
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ITIL’s dead elephant: CMDB can't be done

http://www.itskeptic.org/node/25

CMDB can’t be done. Not as ITIL defines it. At least not with a justifiable return on the investment of doing it - it is such an enormous undertaking that any organisation attempting it is going to burn money on an irresponsible scale. The truth about CMDB is no secret. It is a “dead elephant”: a great putrescence in the corner of the room that everyone studiously ignores, stepping around it and ignoring the stench, because life will be so much simpler if they do not acknowledge the obvious.
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Living without ITIL's CMDB

http://www.itskeptic.org/node/33

so many of us in process methodologies and operations delivery tend to be anal obsessives. Lighten up and stop trying to find one repository to rule them all. Let our data be untidy. Let go of that old “everything has to be complete and correct” mindset. Live without CMDB.
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IT Governance: Round Em Up!

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190500746

The move toward IT governance has become a veritable stampede in recent years. But to seize the initiative, IT execs must implement best practices and saddle up with the right mix of technologies and approaches.
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Mission Intelligence: Governance: It Takes Two to Tango

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190500749

Governance is about the IT and business sides of the house coming together to change behavior and produce more efficient--and more satisfying--project lifecycles. What projects are we doing right now? Do we know how much it costs to run them? Five years ago, Brigham Young University's Office of Information Technology (OIT) couldn't answer those basic questions. Like many organizations, OIT built stuff and then gave it to the users. Allocated certain funds for the year, users knew they had to "use it or lose it." So, business VPs and other users made sure they had requisitions in to the penny--and then pulled out all the political stops to make sure IT put their projects high on the priority list.
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The importance of IT governance

http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/governance/0,3800011701,39160093,00.htm

'IT governance' may not be the term on everyone's lips - but the discipline comprises the techniques IT chiefs need to win over the board and so is essential to their own and their organisations' success.
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Data Infrastructure Hygiene and the Imperative of Organized Growth

http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1057838

Maintaining an organized, clean data infrastructure is important for compliance, management costs and the agility to meet changing demands and make decisions quickly. Examine your processes to decide how you can free up resources to do more valued work.
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The Importance of Information Stewardship

http://www.bpm-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=44238

In putting together a framework for successful information stewardship, the CIO or other top network executive needs to make clear to the business how information and business processes mesh together. This executive then champions the strategy but doesn't own the information
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The Emperor has no clothes. Where is the evidence for ITIL?

http://www.itilskeptic.org/node/21

There isn’t any. Not the kind of hard empirical evidence that would stand up in, say, clinical trials. There is more evidence for quack alternative medicines than there is for ITIL. The facts are that few organisations even bother to examine the business case before embarking on ITIL; even fewer measure results; and the few that do are building their business case in the absence of any solid research to justify their estimates. The Emperor has no clothes.
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A Method to Redesign the IS Portfolios in Large Organisations

http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.25

Remco Groot, Martin Smits, Halbe Kuipers. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05). Over the past decades, large organisations have developed increasingly complex portfolios of information systems to support business processes. Maintenance and leveraging of these so-called system complexes have become a major challenge to many executive boards. The challenge is even bigger for organisations that are the result of mergers. The question arises whether, from both an operational and a strategic perspective, it would be feasible to migrate to a single (new) system complex. In this paper, we describe the 'picture approach', a method for analysing, redesigning and combining system complexes in information-intensive organisations. The method was applied successfully in three cases (insurance companies), all operating multiple system complexes. The method consists of mapping an organisation's information systems and showing their roles in the business processes. The picture approach is evaluated in three ways, one of which is a comparison with design principles for process modelling in Enterprise Application Integration.
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Controlling IT resources

http://content.ll-0.com/mercury_singapore/2nd_130206.pdf?i=041906053228

Roland Lim looks at why IT governance is crucial for businesses and what they can do to achieve it. The Business Times, Monday, February 13, 2006
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An essential library for IT governance

http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2006/02/an_essential_li.html

Excellent reading list from Charles Betz
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Transparency - The Saviour of IT and of Business

http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=13027

By Tony Lock, IT-Director.com, 1st December 2005
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Vibeke Trolle Hansen

http://slashdemocracy.org/vibeke/

Masters thesis about Enterprise architecture and IT governance
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NASCIO: Governance Models to Advance Communications Interoperability

http://www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=97338

National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) announced the release of its new research brief, We Need to Talk: Governance Models to Advance Communications Interoperability. A product of NASCIO's Interoperability and Integration Committee, this brief is intended to provide an overview of the challenges states face in developing communications interoperability initiatives.
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Can a CIO Become too Strategic?

http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=146009,00.asp

By Debra D'Agostino, CIO Insight, February 5, 2005. Kotter: While CIOs need to prove the business value of IT to the executive team, they must also remember to teach the value of business to IT workers.
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Chief Information Officers: Responsibilities and Information and Technology Governance at Leading Private-Sector Companies

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05986.pdf

Report to Congressional Requesters. September 2005. United States General Accountability Office, GAO.
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Enterprise Architecture View: Meta Impact

http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1038110

Do you really know the impact and cost of application changes in your enterprise environment? Column by Michael Jennings published in DM Review Magazine, October 2005 Issue.
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What IT leaders do

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.aspx?ar=1652&L2=13

Companies that rely on IT governance systems alone will come up short. Eric Monnoyer and Paul Willmott. The McKinsey Quarterly, Web exclusive, August 2005
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Describing the Elephant: The Different Faces of IT as Service

http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=319

Terms such as grid, on-demand, and service-oriented architecture are mired in confusion, but there is an overarching trend behind them all. ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 6 - July/August 2005 by Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, Steven Tuecke, Univa
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