Exam 11: IT Governance

The _________________international strategy type is best served by IT governance mechanisms of decentralized structure, local office CTO or CIO, and application investment decisions made by local offices to meet local market requirements.

Organizational risk is the source of project risk that is related to the external environment such as the size and scope of the markets being addressed.

The governance mechanisms for dealing with support or commodity-like functions are the responsibility of senior administrative levels of the organization's management structure.

Typically, important strategic applications do not require traditional financial assessments.

Define IT governance.

Career cross-over is an example of a process-based governance form.

The process of examining the financial underpinnings of a corporation as one of the first steps in a large-scale IT purchase, with the goal of understanding risks associated with the relationship best describes _________________.

Typically, a function that is not a core competency but is a critical success factor should be implemented using a strategic alliance.

_________________is the international strategy whereby organizations expand oversees in search of new markets, usually by employing agents or trading partners to market and distribute their products in different geographic markets.

Each of the following is most likely to be a symptom of misalignment between business and IT except:

Which of the following best describes the selection and use of organizational processes to make decisions about how to obtain and deploy IT resources and competencies?

The thing(s) an organization must do to be successful best describes_________________ .

The automatic extension of a contract agreement if the vendor is not notified by a predetermined future date best describes _________________.

Typically, an organization has separate steering committees that address each of the following levels except:

List five symptoms of misalignment.

In the transnational/metanational form of international strategy, a primary governance mechanism utilized is a federated IT structure.

A best practice for strategic alignment is to have a steering committee comprised of a group of IT and functional business executives at any of the _________________levels and_________________.

A most likely function to be outsourced is project management.

Each of the following is part of the selection and use of organizational processes to make decisions about how to obtain and deploy IT resources and competencies except:

Which of the following IT governance alternatives best describes when IT staff work in the business unit and business unit staff work in IT?