Study of it governance in e-manufacturing

Professor Peter Weill of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his research team took five years to investigate 300 enterprises more than 20 countries and established a framework for analysis of IT governance practice (known as CISR Pattern). They define IT governance as specifying the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the use of IT. As the use of information technology involving all levels and all sectors of organizations, it is unscientific that decisions of IT investment and use are made simply by directorate or senior management. It is the core task of IT governance in an organization that who makes decisions and how decisions are made in information technology. China’s research and practice on IT Governance is still at initial and learning stage. This text, based on the research by CISR and the characteristics of China’s manufacturing informatization, offers the typical patterns of IT Governance, and carries out research on how the arrangement of the structure of different enterprise’s information management influence on the patterns of IT Governance. These archetypes suit the situation of e-manufacturing in China and IT decision rights can be specified according to these archetypes.