IT Governance in German Savings Banks

Zusatztext

Managers of information technologies are responsible and accountable for synchronizing IT strategy with business strategy, effectively and efficiently delivering IT services as well as creating and sustaining value. As part of the corporate governance IT governance provides regulations, principles and responsibilities for IT related decisions to deliver value to the organization. This work investigates the maturity level of IT governance and the structure of decision making in the German Savings Bank Finance Group. These types of banks are public sector financial institutions with the legal status of a corporation established under public law and are economically independent institutes with their own executive boards. However all savings banks share one common service provider for most of their IT services, the Finanz Informatik, and on common challenge.

Autorenportrait

Sascha Pult is business coach and keynote speaker with focus on IT-enabled business change. He holds a degree in mathematics and information science as well as an Executive MBA from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading, UK. The main area of his business management research is in the field of the dynamic IT capabilities.

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