IT GOVERNANCE :AN INTRODUCTION

In this digital era, Information Technology (IT) has become a core element for businesses to make their operations more efficient, improve product quality, comply with statutory requirements, manage risk and security - in short, generate overall business value. As the dependence of organizations on IT had grown, the IT budgets have increased significantly. Thus, the management were required to optimize IT investment and extract maximum value out of every dollar spent on IT resources. That was how emerged a need for having appropriate IT governance practices in organizations.