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Five Critical Success Factors for Introducing Val IT
By Sarah Harries and Peter Harrison, FCPA
ISACA Journal Volume 3, 2009
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l ¼±ÅÃÇÑ ÅõÀÚ¸¦ ±¸ÇöÇϴµ¥ ¼º°ø °¡´É¼ºÀ» ³ôÀÓ, ±×·¯ÇÑ ÅõÀÚµéÀº ±â´ë ¼öÀÍÀ» ½ÇÇöÇϰųª ÃÊ°úÇÑ´Ù.
°¡Ä¡ °ü¸® ¿©ÇàÀ» À§ÇÏ¿© Val IT °°Àº ½ÃÇèÀ» °ÅÄ£ ÇÁ·¹ÀÓ¿öÅ©¸¦ µµÀÔÇÔÀ¸·Î½á, ±× ±æÀº ¸Ö¾îµµ Àß º¸ÀÏ °ÍÀ̸ç, ¶ÇÇÑ ³ë·ÂÇÒ ¸¸ÇÑ °¡Ä¡°¡ ÀÖ´Â Á¾ÂøÁö°¡ ÀÖ´Ù.
Endnotes
1 IT Governance Institute, Enterprise Value: Governance of IT Investments, The Val IT Framework 2.0, 2008, www.isaca.org
2 Harrison, Peter; Sarah Harries; ¡®Recognising the Need for Val IT: Identifying Tipping Points for Value Management¡¯, Information Systems Control Journal, vol. 3, 2008
3 Op cit., The Val IT Framework 2.0, page 11
4 IT Governance Institute, Enterprise Value: Governance of IT Investments, Getting Started With Value Management, 2008, www.isaca.org
Authors¡¯ note:
The authors invite feedback on this series of articles. They are keen to hear about experiences in implementing value management and Val IT, and what has worked or not worked for Journal readers. They can be reached at valitcomments@isaca.org.
The authors would like to thank John Thorp for his contribution to these articles.
Sarah Harries
was with Fujitsu Services (UK) until February 2008 specialising in value management, where she also chaired Fujitsu¡¯s global VM community of interest. She is now head of value management at Openreach, a BT Group Business.
Peter Harrison, CGEIT, FCPA
is a member of the Val IT Steering Committee, and the value management leader within IBM Australia¡¯s strategy and change practice.
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