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h. CobiT and IT Governance - The Essentials

CobiT (v4.1) is a key best-practice framework for implementing IT Governance. It is therefore essential to understand the structure of the CobiT framework and all its components, before starting any initiatives to launch IT Governance in your organisation.

What does IT Governance really mean and how can IT Governance help to make IT more reachable for the business and which frameworks help to implementing this? All such questions will be addressed in this training.

Description

This training is an important starting point for each person involved in launching IT Governance or involved in a program to optimize the structure of IT processes and to define and implement control objectives in these processes.
The objective of this training is to provide a detailed explanation of all CobiT components and to clarify the definition and principles of IT Governance. This includes an explanation on how IT Governance helps to address IT management issues and who should be responsible for IT Governance. It also provides an answer on the questions ‘Why do we need a control framework?’ and ‘How is this driven by the need for IT Governance?’.
Finally also the relation of CobiT to other standards and best practices, the benefits of using CobiT and the products and support that ITGI provides will be highlighted.

Objectives

Participants completing this training will be able to:
• Understand the CobiT framework and all its components
• Understand why the use of a framework is important to the introduction of IT Governance
• Find all related material that is available via ITGI and ISACA

Audience

All persons involved in the implementation of IT Governance or the use of CobiT, from a high managerial level to a practical implementation level. This includes:
• Strategy Planners, Auditors, Quality Managers, Risk Managers
• Top Executives and Managers (Business, IT and Facilities)
• Program, Portfolio or Project Managers, Change Managers
• IT Governance Consultants

Content

The training contains the following topics:
• CobiT: Overview of the CobiT Framework
• CobiT: A Control Framework
• IT Challenges: The link to a Control Framework
• CobiT: Details of the Framework and Components
• Detailed Explanation of 2 CobiT Processes
• CobiT and Other Standards
• CobiT: Resources and Benefits

Course material

The training material provided includes all presentation materials, notes and additional handouts.

Speaker

Greet Volders is Partner & Managing Consultant at Voquals and is specialized in CobiT, IT Governance and the development of (controls on) IT processes. Voquals was one of the pioneers in Belgium to provide CobiT trainings and to give advice in IT Governance, which has grown to one of the core businesses of Voquals. In addition, Voquals is also specialized in the optimization of internal processes conform to SOX and CMM.
Since 2002, Greet has been an active member in several development teams for CobiT and was part of the team who created CobiT Quickstart. In 2004, Greet became an accredited trainer for CobiT.

Other related trainings:

• IT Governance: Trends, Frameworks and Methodologies (1 day)
• Standardising IT Governance: ISO 38500 (1 day)
• ITIL V3 Foundations (2 days)
• Change Management workshop (1 day)

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