Addressing Sustainability in IT-Governance Frameworks

2. Aspects Of It Governance

One major aspect of governance in the context of IT is the development and facilitation of IT governance frameworks. The objective is to define standardized processes and control metrics for IT provision (Stantchev & Stantcheva, 2012) and to offer approaches for the application of these artefacts in real world organizations (Stantchev & Stantcheva, 2013). Commonly used frameworks area include the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) (Van Bon, 2008) and the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) (Lawton, 2007). Furthermore, in the German tradition of information systems research IT Controlling is considered a major aspect of the governance of IT (Kütz, 2005). The particular focus there lies in topics such as IT cost accounting and target costing.