8. Implementation of IT Governance: How Can a Common IT Strategy Create a Cooperation Network?

IT governance (ITG) is an integral part of general governance—irrespective of enterprises, public administration or private social networks with Corporate Governance (CG) in mind. Our thesis is that only a common platform along with fair Information management can cope with the CG-task. To improve this mentored platform each player has to solve the separated views of CG as well as of ITG. The first step will be to hit a common IT-Strategy. The main task of ITG is the integration of business strategy and IT-Strategy. The inclusion of common goals (of CG) by sharing IT creates a win-win situation. On the one hand for the organisations—enterprises, public organisations or the civil networks—to fulfil their social responsibility in accordance with their business activity, and on the other hand for the necessary private stakeholders or citizen to have a better understanding, a common relationship or a quicker information flow concerning the actual situations. New knowledge, new trends, new procedures and political changes will influence this common network and the underlying IT-Strategy. To understand the benefits of such a network, we present different synergies and strategies of cooperation. We show the kind of services that are necessary to augment the advantages—for enterprises, administrations and the civil population. We consider the necessary control mechanisms as well as a fair system of sharing information and the responsibility, since every company bases upon trustfulness.