Information Technology Governance in Practice: A Project Management Office’s Use of Early Risk Assessment as a Relational Mechanism

Literature Review: Connections Between It Governance And Pmos

IT governance is an organizational capacity exercised by the highest levels of management in order to formulate and implement IT strategy that is fully aligned with business objectives. The goal of effective IT governance is to leverage the organization’s IT infrastructure in order to ensure business value from IT investments and to mitigate risks from new IT initiatives (Bowen et al., 2007; De Haes & Van Grembergen, 2005). The formulation and implementation of IT strategy within the IT governance context requires both organizational leadership and appropriate organizational structures and processes (De Haes & Van Grembergen, 2005; Peterson, 2004).