CGEIT · Question #560
An enterprise's IT department has been operating independently without regard to business concerns, leading to misalignment between business and IT. The BEST way to establish alignment would be to…
The correct answer is A. business to help define IT goals. To best establish alignment between a misaligned IT department and business concerns, the business should be required to actively participate in defining IT goals.
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An enterprise's IT department has been operating independently without regard to business concerns, leading to misalignment between business and IT. The BEST way to establish alignment would be to require:
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- Abusiness to help define IT goals.
- Bbusiness to fund IT services.
- CIT to define business objectives.
- DIT and business to define risks.
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(28 responses)- A82% (23)
- B11% (3)
- C4% (1)
- D4% (1)
Why each option
To best establish alignment between a misaligned IT department and business concerns, the business should be required to actively participate in defining IT goals.
For IT to truly support business objectives, its goals must be directly derived from and aligned with business strategies. By involving business stakeholders in defining IT goals, IT initiatives are naturally directed towards solving business problems, creating value, and ensuring that IT resources are leveraged in a way that directly contributes to organizational success, thereby fostering alignment.
Requiring business to fund IT services is a financial mechanism and doesn't inherently ensure strategic alignment of goals.
IT defining business objectives would exacerbate the problem of IT operating independently, as business objectives should originate from the business itself.
IT and business defining risks is part of governance, but defining IT goals directly from business needs is a more fundamental step for alignment.
Concept tested: Business-IT alignment strategy
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