The Improvement Of IT Project Governance In Retail Company A And Its Applications

IT project governance boost the enterprise which make full use of informationsuperiority to maximize revenue, catching the opportunity and gain competitiveadvantage. Meanwhile, according to the characteristics of IT project, the integrationof best practice and make it institutionalized to ensure the business objective wouldbe well supported by IT.Base on the theory, model and all kinds of standard of the IT project governancewhich describes the connotation and definition, the similarities and differencesbetween the corporate governance with IT governance, characteristics andclassification of IT project governance are analyzed in detail, enumerates the presentforeign IT project governance standards and models, such as COBIT, CMMI, and thetwo model coverage, features, shortcomings, acquisition and implementation arecompared and analyzed, the best practice of IT project governance and the generalapplication in retail industry.The study of governance from the IT project with the A retail company, it list allissues according to the process of IT governance, then improve and explore these tosolve problems. At first, the IT project governance is divided into internal andexternal governance. Internal governance was base on the governance structure,distribution mechanism, decision-making power incentive starting with themechanism, supervision mechanism, the project level, assessment and motivation.External governance is divided into vendor management and IT supervision. It is notonly the IT project governance structure integrity, but also the mechanism and thebest practice. Base on the discussion of two retail IT project, it raise five majormeasures of retail A companies IT project governance to ensure the management ofproject implementation supervision, checks and balances. IT project was madedecision scientifically and appropriate management, to guarantee the project quality,schedule, cost management index the project, established a clear responsibility, right,benefit for management system framework, and then based on the framework tomake full use of project management methods to reach the project objective.