An Executive Information System (EIS) is a type of management information system intended to facilitate and support the information and decision making needs of senior executives by providing easy access to both internal and external information relevant to meeting the strategic goals of the organization. It is commonly considered as a specialized form of a [...]
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IT Application Portfolio Management (APM) is a practice that has emerged in mid to large size Information Technology (IT) organizations since the mid 1990s. Application Portfolio Management attempts to use the lessons of financial portfolio management to justify and measure the financial benefits of each application in comparison to the costs of the application’s maintenance [...]
Val IT is a suite of documents that provide a framework for the governance of IT investments, produced by the IT Governance Institute (ITGI). It is a formal statement of principles and processes for IT portfolio management.
Val IT allows business managers to get business value from IT investments, by providing a governance framework that consists [...]
Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) is an international professional association for information system audit. ISACA is an affiliates member of IFAC[1] and IT Governance Institute.
The ISACA was founded in 1967 [2], when a group of individuals with jobs auditing controls in the computer systems, which were becoming increasingly critical to the operations of [...]
Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) provides operational guidance that helps organizations to achieve mission-critical system reliability, availability, supportability, and manageability with Microsoft products and technologies.
MOF is based on an internationally accepted set of IT service management best practices called the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) from the UK government’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC). MOF can be [...]
ASL is a methodology used in the IT industry.
The Application Services Library (ASL) is a public domain standard, which describes a standard for processes within [[application management}Application Management]] (the discipline of producing and maintaining information systems and applications). The term “library” is used because the ASL standard is based on the descriptions of best practices [...]
The Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) is a set of best practices (framework) for information technology (IT) management created by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) in 1992. COBIT provides managers, auditors, and IT users with a set of generally accepted measures, indicators, processes [...]
organizations with the essential elements of effective processes. [1] The latest release of CMMI — CMMI for Development (CMMI-DEV), Version 1.2 — was released in August 2006. CMMI for Development addresses product and service development processes.
Another release of CMMI — CMMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ), Version 1.2 — will be released in November 2007. CMMI for [...]
What is Six Sigma?
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Six Sigma is a set of practices originally developed by Motorola to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects. A defect is defined as nonconformity of a product or service to its specifications.
While the particulars of the methodology were originally formulated by Bill Smith at Motorola in 1986[2], Six Sigma was heavily inspired by six preceding [...]
Business Process Management (BPM) is a field of knowledge at the intersection between management and information technology, encompassing methods, techniques and tools to design, enact, control, and analyze operational business processes involving humans, organizations, applications, documents and other sources of information.[1] The term ‘operational business processes’ refers to repetitive business processes performed by organizations in [...]
