Information technology governance practices in Malaysian public sector

Organizations need to establish effective IT governance practices in order to stay competitive. The aim of this research is to determine the extent of IT governance practices in Malaysian public sector and to determine factors contributes towards IT governance practices. Questionnaire was const...

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Main Authors: Maidin, Siti Sarah, Arshad, Noor Habibah
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
English
Published: IEEE 2010
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description Organizations need to establish effective IT governance practices in order to stay competitive. The aim of this research is to determine the extent of IT governance practices in Malaysian public sector and to determine factors contributes towards IT governance practices. Questionnaire was constructed and distributed to IT management level personnel in public agencies in Klang Valley and Putrajaya. From the findings, it can be noted that 65.7 percent (65.7%) of the respondents has practiced IT governance in their organizations. There were several factors being identified as contributors towards IT governance practices such as senior management involvement in IT, corporate performance measurement systems, corporate communications systems, risk management, strategic alignment, value delivery, ethics/culture of compliance and resource management. Thus, the findings and discussion in this paper could assist Malaysian public sector to incorporate effective IT governance practices in their daily operation.
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spelling iium-587982017-10-24T03:04:46Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/58798/ Information technology governance practices in Malaysian public sector Maidin, Siti Sarah Arshad, Noor Habibah T Technology (General) Organizations need to establish effective IT governance practices in order to stay competitive. The aim of this research is to determine the extent of IT governance practices in Malaysian public sector and to determine factors contributes towards IT governance practices. Questionnaire was constructed and distributed to IT management level personnel in public agencies in Klang Valley and Putrajaya. From the findings, it can be noted that 65.7 percent (65.7%) of the respondents has practiced IT governance in their organizations. There were several factors being identified as contributors towards IT governance practices such as senior management involvement in IT, corporate performance measurement systems, corporate communications systems, risk management, strategic alignment, value delivery, ethics/culture of compliance and resource management. Thus, the findings and discussion in this paper could assist Malaysian public sector to incorporate effective IT governance practices in their daily operation. IEEE 2010 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58798/7/58798-Information%20Technology%20Governance%20Practices%20in%20Malaysian%20Public%20Sector.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/58798/8/58798-Information%20technology%20governance%20practices%20in%20Malaysian%20public%20sector_SCOPUS.pdf Maidin, Siti Sarah and Arshad, Noor Habibah (2010) Information technology governance practices in Malaysian public sector. In: 2010 International Conference on Financial Theory and Engineering (ICFTE 2010), 18-20 June 2010, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5499381/ 10.1109/ICFTE.2010.5499381
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title_short Information technology governance practices in Malaysian public sector
title_sort information technology governance practices in malaysian public sector
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/58798/7/58798-Information%20Technology%20Governance%20Practices%20in%20Malaysian%20Public%20Sector.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/58798/8/58798-Information%20technology%20governance%20practices%20in%20Malaysian%20public%20sector_SCOPUS.pdf