José Carrillo Verdún

Information Technology to Help Drive Business Innovation and Growth

This paper outlines how information technology (IT) can help to drive business innovation and growth. Today innovation is a key to properly managing business growth from all angles. IT governance is responsible for managing and aligning IT with the business objectives; managing strategic demand through the projects portfolio or managing operational demand through the services portfolio. IT portfolios offer the possibility of finding new opportunities to make changes and improve through innovation, enabling savings in capital expenditure and the company’s IT operations staff time.

Framework for the development and reuse of educational resources in the area of Information Systems Management for different degrees at a technical university

This paper presents an innovative approach based on the collaboration among teachers from different faculties in a technical university that participate in several degrees in the same discipline and have not previously worked together. The main results consist on educational resources that can be reused through guides in the contexts of different courses. These resources have been applied in the classroom in the academic year 2010-11.

Project Prioritization as a Key Element in IT Strategic Demand Management

This paper describes demand management and its life cycle, taking into account the IT priorities model and project prioritization as a key demand management element.

Defining a Process Framework for Corporate Governance of IT

IT governance is a discipline of corporate governance. Standard ISO/IEC 38500 set the basis for implementing IT governance. Nevertheless, IT governance is based in a set of best practices. There have been attempts to implement IT governance from different perspectives, none based on processes. This paper defines a process framework to implement IT governance in organizations, regardless of their size and type.

The IT implicated within the enterprise architecture model: Analysis of architecture models and focus IT architecture domain

This paper describes the importance of Information Technology in improving business; due to technological changes and the strong impact of technology on all areas of business it is necessary to clearly distinguish the importance of the IT architecture domain, and its architecture types within enterprise architecture. Today business managers need fast and reliable access to information for decision-making which involves the integration of all business units within the company in order to achieve these objectives; it is very important to consider the role of enterprise architecture as a key element in achieving good business management.

IT strategic alignment maturity model for SMEs case study: Uruguay

This article introduces a maturity model meant to measure the strategic alignment of IT in SME type organizations in Uruguay. It has been developed through an empirical study conducted in La República Oriental del Uruguay on Corporate Governance of Information Technology, to measure the IT strategic alignment present in these organizations. Analysis made on the surveyed organizations, provided the foundation for the development of a new maturity model that fits SMEs in Uruguay. This developed maturity model and its application in SME organizations -of Uruguay in this case- is hereby presented.

Bridging the Gap between Technology and Business within Corporate Governance of Enterprise: Focus Areas of Special Attention in the Technology Domain

This paper describes the importance of technology within the corporate governance of companies, representing two main domains in enterprise architecture: business architecture and IT architecture, helping to bridge the gap between the two main domains. IT Architecture is considered as a key domain in corporative governance, giving the adequate support to business architecture that helps to improve business. Due to evolution in markets of products and services, and technological changes, as well as the strong impact of technology on all areas of business, it is necessary to clearly distinguish the importance of the IT architecture domain, as well as focus attention on the different areas related in the technology domain.

IT Governance in Family Owned Enterprises: A Spanish Approach

IT governance is the discipline of corporate governance that covers IT. Governing IT is not a simple discipline: researchers and practitioners have developed frameworks, best practices, etc. The standard ISO/IEC 38.500 sets the principles, and activities to be carried in the organization to implement IT governance. Family owned enterprises introduces a specific particularity regarding not only governance but also IT governance: the family. This paper presents an analysis of IT governance in family owned enterprises considering this singularity, from the Spanish perspective. Also, introduces two examples of implementing IT governance in family owned enterprises.

The risks analysis like a practice of secure software development. A revision of models and methodologies

The following document, presents and analyzes the Risks Analysis in the whole software development life cycle, framed like one of the recommended practices for secure software development. It present and compare a set of Risk Analysis methodologies and strategies, considering like criteria some classifications propose by different authors and the objectives that they persecute to orient them towards of evaluation criterion for the secure software development.