© 2011 Sixhills Consulting LtdIT Governance High Level OptionsFour basic options for “distributing the power“ can be identifiedP4World Class Technology - IT GovernanceDecentralisedCentral“Anarchy“•Users do what they want •Very responsive but highly cost-intensive and risky; results in highly incompatible systems“User initiative“•User take control to combat non-responsiveness•Danger of redundant, cost- intensive and incompatible systems “Ordered Liberty“•Fast response IT tries to anticipate user needs to enforce standards•Depends on highly enlightened management and large-scale IT resource“IT -Dictatorship“•Lowest cost, tightly controlled and standardised systems•Non-responsive to changing user demandsDegree ofdecentralisationEnforcement of corporate – wide policiesLooseTightIT Governance Solutions Space
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