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COBIT 5 is the latest edition of ISACA’s globally accepted framework. It provides an end-to-end business view of the governance of enterprise IT, reflecting the central role of information and technology in creating value for enterprises of all sizes. The principles, practices, analytical tools and […]

ITIL advocates that IT services are aligned to the needs of the business and support its core processes. It provides guidance to organizations and individuals on how to use IT as a tool to facilitate business change, transformation and growth. The ITIL best practices are

Simple answer: Get yourself familiar with knowledge that is available. Basically, to build the knowledge for sourcing, outsourcing and related governance models, you would have to focus on the available knowledge sources. Laws First and foremost, you need to get to know local/national, laws under

In one of my last blogs, I was reflecting on “Private Cloud and the impact to the existing IT Service Management System”. This view took in consideration design, transition and operation of an internally managed private Cloud. There might be reasons to review the internally

As outlined in my last blog (“Private Cloud and the impact to the existing IT Service Management System”), the impact of the cloud services to an existing IT Service Management System is quite significant. Besides of the completeness, maturity, level of detail and automation challenges

There are quite a lot of companies hopping the “private cloud train” the last months. Reasons for considering private cloud deployments are: Business data have to be “on premise” Industrialization, automatization, standardization of internal IT Re-use of investments already made (virtualization, server, storage) Development of

Seit letztem November steht ein (kostenpflichtig) einsehbarer Draft eines Internationalen Standards für das Outsourcing zur Verfügung mit der Arbeitsbezeichnung „ISO/DIS 37500 Guidance on Outsourcing“. DIS steht für „Draft International Standard“. Geplant ist, die Arbeit an diesem Draft in 2014 abzuschliessen und ihn 2015 formal in

Nachdem inzwischen viele IT-Dienstleister und interne IT Support-Organisationen ihre Hausaufgaben erledigt und ITIL® zumindest ansatzweise implementiert haben, stellt sich oft die durchaus berechtigte Frage: Wie geht es nun weiter? Zunächst natürlich mit kontinuierlicher Verbesserung dessen, was bereits existiert – dieser Ansatz bildet ja der Grundstein

Kein Tag vergeht, ohne neue Enthüllungen über die weltweiten Spionage-Aktivitäten der amerikanischen Geheimdienste, namentlich der NSA. Die USA lassen sich ihre Spionage die unvorstellbare Summe von jährlich 52 Milliarden Dollar kosten. Doch längst geht es nicht mehr um Überwachung im Namen der Sicherheit und der