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Improving IT project oversight
Author(s) -
Iijima Timothy
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of corporate accounting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1097-0053
pISSN - 1044-8136
DOI - 10.1002/jcaf.20705
Subject(s) - implementation , business , audit , scale (ratio) , accounting , internal audit , process management , engineering management , computer science , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
Organizations spend a disproportionate share of their IT budgets on “projects”—primarily systems implementations. But because of their scale and their impact to company operations, the risk of these IT projects is significant. Despite that, oversight by external and internal audit tends to be only cursory! What practical steps can companies take to fix this problem? © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.