COBIT – business framework for governance and management of enterprise IT

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT Describe each of the following five management concepts or models. Explain why each of these concepts or models is important.

IT portfolio management.

Business/IT alignment.

CMMI – Capability Maturity Model Integration.

COBIT – business framework for governance and management of enterprise IT.

ITSM/ITIL – IT service management and in particular the IT infrastructure library.

Analyze the potential or actual applicability of each management concept to your organization or one you know, utilizing citations to at least four literature sources.

Describe supply chain management advances that have been recently adopted by your organization or one with which you are familiar.

How did this advance contribute to the solution of a real business challenge faced by the organization?

What is the role of IT in support of the supply chain?

Consider one enterprise integrated application advance that has been recently adopted by your organization or one with which you are familiar.

Explain the advance in layman’s terms.

Evaluate how this advance contributed to the solution of a real business challenge.

Using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Guide for Conducting Risk Assessments publication, linked in the Resources under the Required Resources heading, evaluate the NIST guidelines for conducting risk assessment in a company or organization.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTSWritten communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th ed.) style and formatting.

Number of resources: Use a minimum of four resources.

Length of assessment: Four typed, double-spaced pages.

Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.