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Ten Principles of IT Governance

Actively design governance for your enterprise - Management should be encouraged to actively design IT governance around the enterprise objectives and performance goals.

Know when to redesign - A change in governance is required with a change in desired behavior; using IT to transform operations and improve global sharing, information management, transparency, and communication.

Involve senior managers - More effective IT governance means more senior management involvement. CIOs must be actively involved in IT governance for success.

Make decisions - Good governance requires choices; governance can highlight conflicting goals.

Clarify exception-handling processes - Exceptions are how enterprises learn; exceptions challenge the status quo.

Provide the right incentives - IT governance is less effective when incentive and reward systems are not aligned with organisational goals.

Assign ownership and accountability for IT governance - IT governance must have an owner and accountabilities responsible for all governance.

Design governance at multiple organisational levels - Consider IT governance at several levels; enterprise-wide IT governance driven by a small number of strategies and goals, leading to enterprises with separate IT functions.

Provide transparency and education - The more education, the more transparency of the governance processes, the more confidence in the governance.

Implement common systems across key assets - Take close look at how IT governance fits into corporate governance.

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Kinetic Events announces panel discussion | IT Leaders West Africa Summit

Panel Discussion:

West Africa’s growth economy and its place in the emerging global landscape

There is a severity of inequality within West Africa and the way the growing presence of information technologies appear to be deepening the country's already large urban-rural gap, raising the possibility that the spread of IT will exacerbate social tensions and wealth inequities, leading to the effective disenfranchisement of millions of rural West Africans - still a majority -- from the fruits of their country's development, although the benefits can be enormous.

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