What a month! Where do I start? Perhaps at the end, working back…
As I write this introduction to the March IT Governance Letter, I am sitting in the Qantas Club lounge in Auckland, awaiting QF134 for the run to Melbourne. Over the past week, I’ve had the pleasure of talking about Australia’s world leading standard for IT Governance with audiences in Brisbane, Canberra (twice), Wellington and Auckland.
During the course of the week, I’ve linked in with a serious push to internationalise AS8015, and seen indications that Australian governments have seen the value ion the standard. I’ve explored the matters relating to the Australian Customs Imports system further, and started to wonder more about what the Australian Tax Office is doing.
Earlier in March, Infonomics has been delighted to establish new relationships and to establish sponsorship arrangements for the IT Governance Letter. And we have moved forward on a plan to have the issues of IT Governance debated at the highest levels of Australian business.
We may well write 2006 as the year in which corporate governance of ICT came of age and became a core element of how organisations operate. We hope that the high levels of interest shown in the past few weeks continues.
Our one disappointment during the month has been the lack of response to the 2006 readiness diagnostic. Only one response was received. That’s not enough to enable us to complete any sort of modelling exercise, so we find we are not able to deliver on our previous offer. But our disappointment there is mitigated by the confirmation from some quarters that people and organisations have completed the questionnaire themselves, and have learned from it. We sincerely hope that as a result, their success rate will improve, and that if nothing else, they will remind others that Infonomics can and does help organisations achieve better performance.
Meanwhile, we hope that you find this month’s edition interesting, and that you will stay with us as we ride the wave of interest and grow Infonomics into the world’s leading independent advisor on corporate governance of ICT.
Mark Toomey
19 March 2006
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