Information and Communication Technology

Running head: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Information and Communication Technology
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Question 1
Does your host company have in place a formal IT Governance framework? Some clues as
to its existence might be that there is a Corporate Governance or IT Governance policy
document; the corporate intranet might contain references to governance. Structures may
exist, at higher levels that are the decision making bodies and which control activities in the
company for all levels through delegated authority.
No, the host company Phoenix technology does not have the place in the formal IT
Governance network. The Phoenix technology is the small ITindustry that provide the network
security tools to the online business sectors. The company has the strength with less than 500
employees.Having the intranet does not state the company has been following the IT
governance(Olutoyin and Flowerday2016.). The company has less than 200 employees. The IT
governance is quite limited in the small enterprise in the company. This is due to the limited
resources in the small business; the company might face some financial setbacks in
implementing the IT governance in the company. In order to imply the IT governance framework
in the company the following characteristics are needed to be implement in the firm.
1. The company would have to provide3 provision for business without any higher
authority structures namely board of the directors.
2. The plans made under this governance must be done under the provided limited
resources.
3. The framework should not be prone to the problems of IT jargon and the framework
should be understandable to all the people belonging to the organisation.
4. The framework that has to be implemented should be easy and simple to implement
5. The framework implemented should be cost effective

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The framework should be made in context of the preinstalled software packages like
spreadsheets, word processors, email, MS office tool kits, data management kits.
Question 2
Describe a situation in your internship, or previous work, where you have taken account of
an Australian Standard in fulfilling your ICT task, and why. If you have not already
experienced such situation, describe a situation in your internship where you will need to
take account of an Australian standard in fulfilling your ICT task, and why.
As an intern in the Phoenix technology, I have not experienced any case where I had to
use the Australian standard to fulfill the ICT task (Hillson and David,2017).. The ICT might need
help of the Australian standard in decision making while doing an IT project. The requirements,
the decision have involved in the case of the It projects are due to business disruption,
unacceptable cost or any mitigation risk is taken under the Australian standard. The Australian
standard makes sure that there is a proper work delivered by the developer to the customer.
Suppose if I have been given a task for the development of Network security software. Under the
Australian standard, I will make sure that there is It project has met the objective set by the
client, it is understandable, it could. The software might be followed under the data protection
act. The quality of the software will tested and implemented under the Australian Standard of IT
governance (Bergeron et al. 2015).The Australian standard will provide me the way to deliver
the effective, efficient methods so that the project seemed to be acceptable to the client. The
Australian standard helps in careful planning of the project and help setting the ethical rules for
the increasing the productivity of the organization. Under the Australian act, the demonstration
of the prototype is primarily done in order to ensure the quality of the project. As an intern in