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ISO/IEC 38500 – the new international standard for IT governance

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06th July 2008

Author: Alan Calder

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In the 21st century, IT governance has become a much-discussed topic amongst IT professionals. It is not that well understood by senior managers, company directors, board members and chairmen – which is a pity, because IT governance is a key topic for exactly these people.
The emergence of ISO/IEC 38500 – the international standard for the corporate governance of information and communication technology – puts boards around the world in a position from which they can take effective action to apply core governance principles to their information and communication technology.

ISO/IEC 38500 is an international standard that defines IT governance in an agreed, standardised way.
It is a ‘high level, principles based advisory standard’. It provides ‘broad guidance on the role of governing body, [and] it encourages organisations to use appropriate standards to underpin their governance of IT.’ ISO/IEC 38500 does not, in other words, replace those standards and frameworks (such as CobiT, ITIL, ISO27001, etc) that an organisation may already have deployed for the better governance of its IT; what it does do is provide a coherent framework for ensuring that the board is appropriately involved in the effective governance of IT.

ISO/IEC 38500 is clear that governance is distinct from management. It identifies the role of an organisation’s governing body, and aligns that with the governing body’s role as described in the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, as revised in 2004, and in the Cadbury Report on Corporate Governance of 1992.
The standard makes itself applicable to organisations of all sizes, regardless of purpose, design or

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