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IT governance has become critical to enterprise success: CPA Australia

The profile of IT as an important corporate governance issue continues to grow.  Hard on the heels of the KPMG Global IT Project Management Survey comes a publication from CPA Australia, entitled "IT Governance: A Practical Guide for Company Directors and Business Executives".  For information and ordering, please refer to the press release on the CPA Website

Principal author of the CPA Guide is Chris Gillies - one of Australia's leading practicing company directors with strong hands-on IT experience.  She is backed up by a leading academic and Gartner researcher, Dr Marianne Broadbent.  Chris Gillies is a long term friend of Infonomics, and has been instrumental in the establishment of IT and business change governance at board level for organisations such as Centrelink and Bendigo Bank.  The very practical 59 page guide is peppered with illustrations based on real world experience, and contains numerous straight-forward checklists that directors and executives can use to see whether they have adequate coverage in their IT Governance.

The guide is backed up by a CD with a single file that provides spare copies of the tables and checklists in the document, so reviews can be done over and over again.

Infonomics applauds the CPA initiative to further spread the word that IT Governance is a vital matter for executives and directors.  The messages in the guide are entirely consistent with the messages in the Australian Standard.