'IT Governance in Higher Education Institutions: A Systematic Literature Review' paper by Tunisian partners have been published in the IJHCITP journal
IT Governance for Tunisian Universities
A Erasmus+ Project belonging to Capacity Building, in the field of Higher Education
The work entittled "IT Governance in Higher Education Institutions: A Systematic Literature Review" done by the Tunisian partners, have been published in the International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals (IJHCITP). This paper is intended to study practices on IT Governance outside the consortium of the project as state of the art previous to the development of the project. After the study, and as a difussion activity related to the project, Tunisian partnes sent it to the IJHCITP and finally has been published.
The study stressed the Information Technology (IT) being a very important aspect for higher education institutions (HEI) in both teaching, research and administration. The managers of those institutions are more and more aware that IT is a strategic tool for their institutions. On the other hand, IT Governance is getting attention from the practitioner and research side, given the need to govern IT extending the organisation's strategy and objectives into IT. IT Governance helps to set clear expectations, to gain participation, open communications, establish accountability and provide executive management oversight. Thus, it is important to consider IT Governance and the alignment with business strategy for HEIs.
In this article, authors present a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on IT Governance in HEIs using a collection of scientific and non-conventional data (grey literature). The motivation that drives this literature review is the further development of an IT Governance framework for Tunisian universities. This article aims to define the situation of the IT Governance in other countries and also to provide a map of the state of the art of IT governance in HEIs in various countries.
Results show a mixed situation of IT Governance in HEIs. Some countries have the support of top level management to introduce IT Governance in HEIs by adopting regulatory frameworks and common laws. But other countries relay in their strong culture of IT Governance. The different case studies presented in this review show that there is no consensus on the IT Governance framework or standard to use in HEIs. An important number of institutions are implementing COBIT or ISO best practices. On the other hand, some countries have developed their own frameworks. Even there is no a single way to implement an IT Governance framework designed for HEI, it is also true that there are two mandatory aspects that are necessary to implement in IT Governance deployments: firstly, establishing a committee structure for IT assets and secondly, enable effective communication between the IT, the business and the stakeholders.
IT Governance for Tunisian Universities
This project is aimed to gather a set of researchers from four universities with a wide experience in developing and deploying ITG framework models from 3 different countries (Spain, Germany and Norway) to develop, adapt and test a new ITG framework to be implemented in HEIs in Tunisia. Expected results of this project include a better governance model for IT in Tunisian HEIs as well as an overall modernization of the governance processes for HEIs and a contribution of the cooperation between EU and Tunisia.
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Event date: 10/02/2018
Publication date: 12/02/2018