Governance

Trust, growing within the Cloud

As noted within it is not surprising to see QA organizations increasingly focusing more so on governance matters. In present and future times it will also not be surprising to have this focus increasingly include relationship management, perhaps even increasingly relative to the cloud. It will also not be surprising to see resources, organizations, services and products which help enable or grow trust relationships from various perspectives (including within the cloud, and perhaps relative to sharing).

By 2010 it is very possible that relationship management will truly begin surpassing traditional IT skills within many organizations. Furthermore by 2020 it is very possible services will have significantly grown within, and migrated to, the cloud … particularly as trust grows inherently.

Report and Model (Responsibility and Governance)

This report may help generate a few good ideas; and this model may help further thinking relative to maturing governance, including relative to data.

All the best in the years of the future. Thank you for all you do.

Framework revised 2008; is it helping, or can it?

Perhaps the 2008 revision of MOF can help improve the inherent quality of your organization, for example perhaps relative to service management functions associated with Business and IT alignment, IT Governance, Compliance and Risk Management.

As noted within MOF’s 5.1 GRC SMF document, certainly this is true…

“Governance, risk, and compliance are potentially far-reaching and interwoven activities that require participation by everyone in the organization”

If you have not already, perhaps do some related reading and thinking. Feel free to also share whether the revision has been a help to your organization, or whether you believe it can be in the future. Thank you for doing so.

Have a great weekend.

The relationship between CobiT and Val IT

A quick post to share awareness…

There is some potential interesting reading in Volume 3 2008 of CobiT Focus. Articles in the July issue include one on the relationship between CobiT and Val IT; and another on IT Risk Management. There are more however. You can view the newsletter here.

Compliance, Governance, Security (and ideally value that’s increasingly inherent)

Sounds like an interesting blog: Regulatory Compliance, Governance and Security. Welcome aboard Charles.