Towards an abbreviated model of IT governance for Palestinian government sector according to COBIT 5 framework

Other Title(s)

نحو نموذج مصغر لحوكمة تكنولوجيا المعلومات للحكومة الفلسطينية وفقا لإطار COBIT5

Dissertant

Lubbad, Rami Riyad Muhammad

Thesis advisor

Ashur, Yusuf Husayn Mahmud

Comitee Members

Abu Samrah, Ayman Ahmad
Abu Muammar, Faris Mahmud

University

Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Commerce

Department

Department of Business Administration

University Country

Palestine (Gaza Strip)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2014

English Abstract

-This study aimed to identify the most priority high-level processes of IT governance for Palestine government sectors and suggest an abbreviated model of IT governance according to COBIT version 5 framework as the basis to integrate IT governance framework in the Palestinian government sectors.

This research used a survey methodology to collect the information, and designed 10 rating scale to obtain priority ratings from Palestinian government sector for each of the high level IT processes.

Comprehensive survey technique was used, and distributed to 57 responders of ITrelated managers in Palestinian government of Gaza.

Fifty-one surveys were compiled to form a ranked list of the most priority IT governance processes for the Palestinian government sectors.

The findings of the study revealed thirteen IT governance processes that considered top prioritized by the respondents and laid between ranks 7.55 and 6.65 of 10.

Since twelve of the list were also identified by the other studies, this emphasizes that these processes are to be independent of context (international or national) and organizational settings.

One IT process is a unique to Palestinian government sectors were also identified.

Furthermore, the study identified three processes were not listed in high ranked list of this study but were considered as a prioritized processes for IT governance in previous studies.

The study recommends to taking into account these processes when implementing IT governance for Palestinian government sector.

The study suggests a proposed an abbreviated model of IT governance contains 16 high-level processes derived from COBIT 5 that may applicable for Palestinian government sector.

The proposed model contains the list of 13 high-level processes that revealed in this study and the other 3 processes were identified by other authors.

The study recommended the Palestinian government to give more concern to standardize their IT governance processes and to adopt implementing an IT governance framework according to the proposed model in this study.

The study also encouraged other researchers to take procedures in applying such research on other samples or sectors, especially on government sectors.

Main Subjects

Business Administration

Topics

• Management
• Palestine
• Information technology
• Management information systems

No. of Pages

104

Table of Contents

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-534907