A Cosmological Approach to IT Governance: Val IT and CobiT Lessons Learned at the United Nations

摘要

As Carl Sagan once said, "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." This tenet served as the basis for an IT governance restructuring within the United Nations (UN) Secretariat. The project has been underway for nearly one year, and many outcomes and lessons learned have emerged. By taking a "cosmological" approach to defining and managing a governance system, the methodology has produced positive results to institutionalizing a Val IT/CoBiT-based governance framework. The approach, tools and lessons learned are provided as a case study of this experience.