It Governance In The Oil Based Economies Of The Gcc

Download or read book IT Governance in the Oil-Based Economies of the GCC written by Mohamed Zaki and published by Mohamed Zaki. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Technology has turned indispensable to the business continuity and the competitiveness of today’s organizations. In the same way, IT governance has become essential in ensuring that IT is efficiently and effectively delivering its objectives aligned with the business. The research in this book had examined the role of IT governance in an organization in the booming economy of that period of the research (2010 -2012) by means of analyzing a case study of a state-owned organization in the oil and gas sector in the State of Qatar. Through applying qualitative research methods, the research explored the challenges, assessed the relevance of IT governance frameworks to the various contexts, identified techniques and success factors by which IT governance can achieve its objectives without hindering or slowing down the pace at which that organization was growing during that period of the study. Based on extensive research, the book explores and depicts the local business culture, the practice related to corporate and IT governance then discloses and discusses several misconceptions and misconducts observed.