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• Failing quickly does not equate to agility!

  This past weekend I contributed my time and energy with 9 other global ISACA experts on the development of our position and contributions to the emerging governance standards as part of the ISO liaison taskforce. The taskforce was established to focus... Posted Sep 21 2011, 11:22 AM by Robert Stroud with | with no comments Tags: IT Governance, Governance, service management, standards, agility

• COBIT SIG: Growing rapidly in North America. What are you missing?

  The itSMF USA COBIT Special Interest Group (SIG) commenced in March 2010, and is one of the fastest growing SIGs within the itSMF movement. The purpose of the SIG is to increase visibility and interoperability between the ITIL and COBIT Frameworks through... Posted Feb 22 2011, 12:58 PM by Robert Stroud with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: IT Governance, Governance, IT, VAL IT, Robert Stroud, cobit 5, risk IT, service management, SIG

• South Africa and Development of a Governance Standard

  Whilst in South Africa recently to work on the update for the corporate governance of IT standard (ISO/IEC 38500), I escaped from the team for a few moments to give a little color to the development of an ISO standard. For those of you not familiar with... Posted Oct 04 2010, 02:27 PM by Robert Stroud with | with no comments Tags: IT Governance, Governance, Best Practices, framework, ISO, ISO|IEC, ISO/IEC

• Connecting business processes to governance for better service delivery

  While I was in India earlier this year at the ISACA Asia Pacific Conference in Mumbai, India, one of the topics that were discussed in many sessions and with the press was the ongoing quest for business and IT alignment. The fundamental missing step is... Posted May 05 2010, 11:00 AM by Robert Stroud with | with no comments Tags: IT Governance, ISACA, value, Robert Stroud

• ISACA “Thriller in Manila” – keeping the pace!

  Have you ever started on a project at work and after a period of time simply lost sight of the destination or simply found it too hard and moved on to something else? With so many rapid changes in computing including cloud, virtualization, changing user... Posted Apr 15 2010, 09:40 AM by Robert Stroud with | with no comments Tags: IT Governance, COBIT, ISACA, VAL IT, Robert Stroud, RiskIT