IT Leadership Strategy and IT Governance

This document discusses IT leadership skills, IT governance approach, process and structure, difference between CoBit and ITLL, threats and mitigation of information resources and more.

Running head: Information Technology Leadership
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP
Name of the Student
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Week 11:
Difference between the CoBit and ITLL:
One of the fundamental difference between the framework of CoBit and ITLL is that
the framework CoBit works by enhance the utilization of the organizational resources as well
as by mitigating the risk present in the organizational structure which has a significant impact
on the services of the respective business service. Whereas, the ITLL framework works by
managing the lifecycle of the IT services. Followed by the above aspects the key differences
between CoBit and ITLL are listed below:
CoBit- According to the studies it has been noticed that the primary objective of the CoBit
methodology is to interrelate the objectives of an Information Technology in a business in
order to structure the duties and the responsibilities of the IT team leader. In order to establish
the objectives it provides an effective utilization of the resources for the purpose to build,
maintain, reduce as well as enhance the privacy standards of the of an IT process in an
organizational platform. Those resources includes the Frameworks, Objective controls,
maturity models as well as the process description.
Followed by the above aspects this process holds five major principles in order to complete
the process:
 Addressing the demands of the stakeholders.
 Analysis of the entire organizational activities.
 Incorporation of single integrated framework.
 Application of Holistic approach.
 Separation of Governance from the organizational management.

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ITLL- However, the framework of ITLL works by offering a highly effective IT services to
the organization for the betterment of the service lifecycle. Followed by the above aspect
ITLL works by completion of five important stages those are described below:
 Strategy development- in which the IT service will provide an effective strategy in
order to deliver the accurate services which are needed for the stakeholders by
addressing all the organizational requirements as well as by analyzing the business
impacts.
 Implementation of Service Design- in which it will structure an IT service process by
considering the organizational structure in order to address the aim of the business.
 Transition of the IT Service- defines and analyses the risk as well as the mitigation of
the mentioned planning.
 Operation of Services- stands to assure the delivery of the services to the customers.
 Service Improvement- stands to analyze the key performance indicator in order to
reduce the possibilities of the problems related to the bottleneck.
IT leadership Skills:
After successfully analyzing the important leadership skills for the betterment of the
technological innovation several traits has been noticed which are listed below:
 Self-Controlling and managing skills- For the incorporation of the technological
innovation it is highly essential to have efficient self-managing skills in order to
effectively utilize the time, emotion as well as the strength and the weakness of the
sources.
 Strategic Mind- is highly essential as a person with strategic mind holds the
capability to work in a structured way in order to address the organizational as well

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as the customer needs. Followed by this it helps to predict the future demands by
which the organization can proceed with further innovation.
 Communication- Being an effective communicator is very important as it will help
the team leader to share the opinion with the others for the betterment of the team
work. Along with that effective communication skills holds the feature to easily
engage any person to discuss and implement the business goal and innovation.
 Being accountable as well as responsible- holds a significant impact towards the
working with the determined framework for any sort of organizational development.
 Complexity management skill- is also very important in order to strategies the
innovation in an organizational services as holds the ability of the person which can
effectively resolve the complex problems related to any organization process.
 Team Management- Followed by the above process it is essential have an effective
team management skills in a team leader as this designation holds the responsibility
to work with the team by effectively collaborating with them as well as by sharing
the ideas with team members.
 Adaptive Nature- Along with all the mentioned skills it is also essential for the
team leader to have the adaptive learning nature by considering the rapid growth of
the technology.
Managing knowledgeable technical expert:
Followed by the aspect to incorporate the technical expert in the organizational
structure for the betterment of the organizational services it is also very essential to
effectively utilize the skills of those experts in order to get more accurate result. Thus, it is
important for the team leader to effectively distribute the experts among few specific teams in
which the skills of the experts will be effectively utilize for the betterment of the

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organizational services. Along with that the leader must conduct effective communication
process by which those experts can share their knowledge among the other employs.
IT Governance:
In this section the concept of the IT governance will be discussed, which has stated
that the fundamental purpose behind the incorporation of IT Governance in the business
structure consisting the IT services is to provide effective solution to achieve the
organizational objectives. Followed by this objective it allows the organization for effective
evaluation, prioritization as well as the selection process by ensuring that there will be the
maximum utilization of the organization resources. While discussing about the ITG it is also
essential to discuss about the ITDG and the ITSG which provides the process of effective
decision making as well as the supply side governance which holds the fundamental
responsibility to enhance the decision making and operations of the organization which have
a direct impact on the betterment of the organization.
IT governance Approach, process and Structure:
Followed by the studies on the IT Governance it has been noticed that currently the IT
approaches in the IT services holds the objective to extract the potential benefits for the
organization. Along with that the fundamental reason behind this approach is to reach the
stage of maximum optimization. Followed by these approaches IT governance also utilizes
provides the process by which the approached IT framework can be utilizes in order to
enhance the organizational structure. Along with the organizational IT governance process
there is also a significant impact of the IT governance structure for the betterment of the IT
services as it provides effective solution to the organization for effective utilization of the
resources as well as the stakeholders.

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Difference between Managers and Leaders:
Considering the aspects of the responsibilities of managers and leaders, several
significant difference has been noticed which are mentioned below:
Leader Manager
The fundamental responsibility of a leader is
to manage a team thus, it is not necessary
for the leader to be a manager.
Manager holds the responsibility of the
organizational management.
There is no necessity for the leader to be in
a formal group as a leader can be in an
informal group as well.
Managers are only structured for the
organizational framework.
Leadership does not depends on the
manager ship skills.
However, to be a manager it is essential to
be a good leader.
Transformation Leadership:
After analyzing the working process of the Transformation leadership it has been
noticed that these types of leadership works by encouraging the team members to be more
creative and innovative for the betterment of the organization. In this leadership process the
team members trust their lead for any sort of decision making as well as for the selection of
any desired solution.
Followed by these aspects there are few key skills present those are listed below:
 Ego management.
 Self-Control.
 Ability for effective decision making.
 Creative.
 Inspirational.

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 Ability of adapt.
 Proactive-ness.
Innovative Technological Leadership:
The fundamental concept of the Innovative Technological Leadership is to encourage
the team members for being more creative and innovation which will help to develop the
improved technology for the betterment of the organizational structure. Followed by the
above objective it has been noticed that one of the major key aspects of an innovative leader
is to think innovatively as well creatively.
In order to be a good Innovative Technological Leader below listed aspects are very essential
for the team leader:
 Effective Idea Generation.
 Idea Evaluation.
 Effective Team Management capability.
 Strategic Mind.
 Effective decision making ability.
 Expert technological knowledge.
Week 12:
Threats and mitigation of the Information resources:
Considering the cyber-attacks happened in the Melbourne Hospital it has been notice that
the hacker has hacked the patient’s data in order to alert the hospital management for
incorporating effective security to protect the organizational data. From the analysis several
threats has been identified which are listed below:
 Weak information security procedure.

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 Infective Malware attack.
 Along with that the attacks related to the mobile malware can be avoided.
 Less utilization of the encryption process to secure the organizational resource.
 Along with that the incorporation of the third party access invokes the data loss in an
organizational structure.
Followed by the above mentioned threats it is very important to adopt the encryption
decryption process for the data transmission in order to provide more security to the
organizational data. Along with that the IT professional present in the organization must
incorporate the authorized data access process in order to control the unwanted access of
organizational data.
IT professional-
In order to become a successful IT professional it is very essential to have the below
mentioned attributes:
1. Passion towards the technology- of a person is very essential to be an expert IT
professional.
2. Data Management- in order to be a successful IT professional it is very important to
have a deep knowledge about the data management as the information management is
one of major success factor of IT system.
3. Adaptive Nature- of a person holds nature in order to be a successful IT professional
as the information technologies are rapidly with the time.
4. Good technological Concept- Followed by the above aspects it is also essential for the
person to be good in technical operation.
5. Versatility- Along with that one of the impactful skill is the versatility of the person as
due to this the person will surely help an organization to become more creative.

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