Today I will be discussing whether or not IT governance and
the COBIT framework are more concerned with large businesses rather than small
to medium sized enterprises (SME). I personally disagree that IT governance
should only be for larger businesses; however I agree that COBIT is not suited
for SMEs.
Firstly whilst larger businesses have more IT to govern over
does not mean that they should be the only ones practising it. The consequences
are just as detrimental if poor practises are in place no matter the size. Even
for an individual like myself; I lost a USB which contained a terms worth of
school work. I placed a lot of stress on myself due to that poor governance
choice.
Secondly I believe COBIT is more suited to larger businesses
due to the broadness of it. A SME do not have very many staff and usually does
not have a dedicated IT department meaning implementing COBIT would be much
harder. Getting external help is not necessarily a good idea either as it is
expensive. In addition Devos (2012) found that implementing COBIT in SME’s
yielded disappointing results due to size issues.
Therefore I recommend that IT governance be practiced by all
sizes of business however SMEs should seek out a better framework than COBIT
that fits there business size more.
References
Devos, J. (2012). Rethinking IT governance for SMEs. Industrial
management + data systems, 112 (2), p. 206.
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