Learn in the textbookInternal Control and IT Governance
DefinitionIT governance (ITガバナンス) is the organizational mechanism and capability through which management has a strategy drawn up for using IT to reach business goals and steers its execution in the right direction.
ExplanationThe aim is to tie IT investment and use to business strategy and raise the company's competitiveness and value. JIS Q 38500:2015 describes what management does with three activities: Evaluate current and future IT use, Direct by setting policies and plans and assigning responsibility, and Monitor results and compliance with policy. This Monitor names an activity of management and belongs to a different framework from monitoring (モニタリング), the basic component of internal control.
AnalogyIt is like a ship's captain who sets the destination and route, then checks the ship's position along the way and orders course corrections.
Memory hookGovernance comes from the Greek word for steering a ship, the same root as government.