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Everyone these days is talking about saving the planet. Natural resource depletion is at an all-time high, and is evidenced by today’s events such as the oil “crisis.” The notion of going “Green” means something different to everyone. Does it mean putting...
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In my last post, I discussed how a fully decentralized model affects views on alignment , so now let's take a look at how a fully centralized model affects alignment. In a fully centralized organization, there is basically one central CIO with many...
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Wow what a big week for itSMF Oz and probably a bigger week for itSMF USA in a week and guess what, I am lucky enough to be at both. itSMF Oz saw one of its largest turn out with more than 600 registrations attending the 3 day conference. We have come...
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It is inappropriate, if not impossible, to talk about IT Governance without focusing on transparency. The term is used again and again and has become an aspiration for IT organizations that increasingly understand the importance of providing and sharing...
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I attended the ISACA International Conference in Toronto the last week of July to speak on IT Governance. The presentation was to provide an overview on the genesis and purpose of IT Governance along with my views of how IT Governance addresses the goals...
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There has recently been a lot of attention to a number of demographic trends that may impact the mainframe world. One, of course, is the impending retirement of a large portion of the mainframe workforce. Another is the retirement of the baby boomer generation...
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The ITSMF e-Symposium is the IT Service Management Forum's monthly online conference. This month, I'm pleased and proud to be one of the speakers. The conference takes place on Wednesday, August 27 at 9:00 a.m. in NY, 2:00 p.m. in London and 9...
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I met with Senior IT project and portfolio decision-makers of a major financial institution last week. I gave two presentations: the first on IT Governance and the next on Project and Portfolio Management (PPM). We had two hours for each presentation...
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The COBIT ® Steering committee, which I chair, develops guidance to assist the practitioner community in the execution of their roles. We are pleased to announce that the long awaited and highly demanded COBIT and ITIL ® V3 Mapping is available for download...
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On August 11th, 2008, CA published a security notice to address two vulnerabilities in the CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System SDK. Title: CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System SDK kmxfw.sys Multiple Vulnerabilities CA Advisory Date: 2008-08...
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The official ISACA press release announcing Val IT 2.0 can be found here . Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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To continue the conversation on aligning IT with the business, I’d like to dive deeper into the two sides of the issue that I raised in my previous post. To explore this topic further we need to look at the following dimensions How IT is organized within...
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In a good example of how seemingly innocuous personal information can be used to cause significant harm, a British woman's pictures and information were copied from her Facebook profile and used to create a false profile on a Canadian fetish site...
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On August 1st, 2008, CA published a security notice to address multiple vulnerabilities in CA products that embed Ingres. Title: CA Products That Embed Ingres Multiple Vulnerabilities CA Advisory Date: 2008-08-01 Reported By: iDefense Labs Impact: A remote...
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Measuring the value of governance is a daunting challenge shared by IT Governance practitioners. Yet, without empirical evidence, it is difficult to prove strategic business advantage. At best, most folks can only show IT cost savings or cost avoidance...
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