The Linear Conditional Probability Matrix Generator for IT Governance Performance Prediction

Mårten Simonsson, Robert Lagerström, Pontus Johnson

2008

Abstract

The goal of IT governance is not only to achieve internal efficiency in an IT organization, but also to support IT’s role as a business enabler. The latter is here denoted IT governance performance, and cannot be controlled by IT management directly. Their realm of control includes IT governance maturity, indicated by e.g. different IT activities, documents, metrics and roles. Current IT governance frameworks are suitable for describing IT governance, but lack the ability to predict how changes to the IT governance maturity indicators affect the IT governance performance. This paper presents a Bayesian network for IT governance performance prediction, learned with experience from 35 case studies. The network learns using the proposed Linear Conditional Probability Matrix Generator. The resulting Bayesian network for IT governance performance prediction can be used to support IT governance decision-making.

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Simonsson M., Lagerström R. and Johnson P. (2008). The Linear Conditional Probability Matrix Generator for IT Governance Performance Prediction . In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-43-2, pages 170-179. DOI: 10.5220/0001736301700179


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@conference{msvveis08,
author={Mårten Simonsson and Robert Lagerström and Pontus Johnson},
title={The Linear Conditional Probability Matrix Generator for IT Governance Performance Prediction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={170-179},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001736301700179},
isbn={978-989-8111-43-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2008)
TI - The Linear Conditional Probability Matrix Generator for IT Governance Performance Prediction
SN - 978-989-8111-43-2
AU - Simonsson M.
AU - Lagerström R.
AU - Johnson P.
PY - 2008
SP - 170
EP - 179
DO - 10.5220/0001736301700179