sized organizations. Large scale empirical research It is the purpose that IT governance assessment method is used in large scale empirical research on IT governance. As was done by Weill and Ross, it will be interesting to study a large number of organizations again with the improved IT governance assessment method. This time more knowledge and insight can be gained of IT governance of organizations, which could not have been found in previous research. It will be interesting to find out how organizations with high IT governance effectiveness have organized their IT governance. The specific features of these successful organizations can be identified which can be prescribed to other organizations in general and in specific conditions. This prescription of IT governance deduced from practice will be better than theoretical IT governance prescription. The relationship between types of competitive strategy of organizations and IT governance can be investigated. Weill and Ross have categorized the strategies of the studied organizations in their research in three types of competitive strategy: operational excellence, customer intimacy and product leadership. They tried to find out relations between types of competitive strategy of organizations and the distribution of IT decision making rights in organizations. An enhanced understanding of the relationship between types of competitive strategy and IT governance can be gained by also studying the relations between types of competitive strategy and distribution of IT decision control in addition to IT decision making rights. List of figures and tables Figures Figure 1. Research approach 9 Figure 2. IT governance main elements 17 18 Figure 3. IT governance assessment method Figure 4. Strategic alignment model (Henderson & Venkatraman, 1993) 29 Figure 5. Balanced scorecard (Kaplan & Norton, 1992) 32 Figure 6. IT governance investigation method with selected methods 34 38 Figure 7. Corporate Governance Hierarchy Figure 8. IT Governance Hierarchy 40 Tables 16 Tabel 1. Common elements among IT governance definitions
sized organizations. Large scale empirical research It is the purpose that IT governance assessment method is used in large scale empirical research on IT governance. As was done by Weill and Ross, it will be interesting to study a large number of organizations again with the improved IT governance assessment method. This time more knowledge and insight can be gained of IT governance of organizations, which could not have been found in previous research. It will be interesting to find out how organizations with high IT governance effectiveness have organized their IT governance. The specific features of these successful organizations can be identified which can be prescribed to other organizations in general and in specific conditions. This prescription of IT governance deduced from practice will be better than theoretical IT governance prescription. The relationship between types of competitive strategy of organizations and IT governance can be investigated. Weill and Ross have categorized the strategies of the studied organizations in their research in three types of competitive strategy: operational excellence, customer intimacy and product leadership. They tried to find out relations between types of competitive strategy of organizations and the distribution of IT decision making rights in organizations. An enhanced understanding of the relationship between types of competitive strategy and IT governance can be gained by also studying the relations between types of competitive strategy and distribution of IT decision control in addition to IT decision making rights. List of figures and tables Figures Figure 1. Research approach 9 Figure 2. IT governance main elements 17 Figure 3. IT governance assessment method 18 Figure 4. Strategic alignment model (Henderson & Venkatraman, 1993) 29 Figure 5. Balanced scorecard (Kaplan & Norton, 1992) 32 Figure 6. IT governance investigation method with selected methods 34 Figure 7. Corporate Governance Hierarchy 38 Figure 8. IT Governance Hierarchy 40 Tables Tabel 1. Common elements among IT governance definitions 16
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