EXPLORING THE APPROACHES FOR COBIT PROCESS IN MALAYSIAN 100 TOP CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMPANIES

As IT plays important role in sustaining and extending the organization’s strategies and objectives, it is part of management responsibility to ensure that expectation for IT are met and IT risk are mitigated. Developed by ISACA, Control Objectives for information and related technology (COBIT) serve as an assistance to organization in aligning IT strategy with business strategy as it laid down the framework for excellence IT control framework. Through questionnaires to top 100 Public Listed companies with good corporate governance practice, the study is expected to discover the approaches of implementing COBIT framework in Malaysia and try to explore whether there is variation among the industries. The empirical evidence may enable organizations to evaluate the implementation of IT Governance, and begin to properly pursue effective strategies to improve the quality of IT control activities.

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