COBIT as a Method for Deliberate and Emergent Strategies

A good, respectively successful IT governance
program is characterized by an intensive business-
IT alignment. Thus, COBIT, as a method of IT
governance, must be judged as to whether it
succeeds in establishing a strategic fit between
business strategies and an IT strategy. Therefore,
the question arises whether the kind of strategies
that appear in practice are sufficiently supported
by COBIT.
There are different approaches to classify strategies.
The following article deals with the differentiation
between deliberate and emergent strategies and
their support when they are implemented with the
COBIT framework. The development and the
implementation of deliberate strategies (in the sense
of planned measures packages) are relatively
obvious to those who are regularly confronted with it
in their daily routine. Emergent strategies, on the
other hand, look different—the words “emergent” (in
the sense of unintended) and “strategy” could cause
a discrepancy.
The following article points out that the COBIT
framework is very helpful when implementing both
types of strategies.