Governance

COBIT

Acronym : COBIT

COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) is an IT governance framework that connects business goals to IT goals and provides management and control practices for each domain.

Why it matters

It helps executive leadership and IT speak the same language about the value IT creates, rather than treating IT governance as a purely technical matter.

Concrete example

An IT department uses COBIT to structure its governance dashboard and present it to the executive committee in business terms.

Related notions

IT governanceStrategic alignmentInternal control

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