Certain segments of the computer press write endlessly about governance. Research groups produce reams of white papers about it. CIOs with a certain type of background talk on and on about it. So, what is governance exactly?

There are as many definitions and interpretations of governance as there are IT consultants and pundits. That means we are going to be stuck with my interpretation of governance as it applies to the real world. Governance is all about rules and guidelines that allow you to manage performance and risk for IT systems. Governance is used to operate, manage, and maintain IT systems within the organization. That is the core of governance: rules to live by. What interests me more specifically is governance as it applies to certain systems within IT. Corporate governance is all about running the organization; IT governance is about running IT; and system or application governance is about running a particular system or set of applications.

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