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Interview
In Search of Good Governance
An interview with Jack McCredie
9/12/2007
Will you continue your research into IT governance? Would you change your approach to the research in any way in the future? Yes, I would like to continue to learn more about which IT governance structures work well in which environments. As I mentioned earlier, I do not think there is a theoretical "best" structure. I believe that there are several good models, and that the best one for a particular campus depends on the culture of that campus, the senior campus leadership and its relationship to the IT function, the role of the campus in a larger system or peer group, the role of trustees in IT governance, the level of decentralization of other important functions such as the library, and a host of other factors. I would very much like to help develop several case studies of campuses that have well-functioning, but different, IT governance structures and try to learn more about the features that make each of these models effective.[Editor’s note: Jack McCredie will give the opening keynote at Campus Technology’s new Leadership in Practice conference, December 10-12 in San Francisco.]
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