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COBIT 5 is based on five key principles (shown in figure 2) for governance and management of enterprise IT:
Principle 1: Meeting Stakeholder Needs—Enterprises exist to create value for theirstakeholders by maintaining a
balance between the realisation of benefits and the optimisation of risk and use of resources. COBIT 5 provides all of the
required processes and other enablers to supportbusiness value creation through the use of IT. Because every enterprise
has different objectives, an enterprise can customise COBIT 5 to suit its own context through the goals cascade,
translatinghigh-level enterprise goals into manageable, specific, IT-related goals and mapping these to specific processes
and practices.
—COBIT 5 integrates governance of enterprise IT into enterprisegovernance:
– It covers all functions and processes within the enterprise; COBIT 5 does not focus only on the ‘IT function’, but
treats information and related technologies as assets that need to be dealtwith just like any other asset by everyone in
the enterprise.
– It considers all IT-related governance and management enablers to be enterprisewide and end-to-end, i.e., inclusive
of everything andeveryone—internal and external—that is relevant to governance and management of enterprise
information and related IT.
Principle 3: Applying a Single, Integrated Framework—There are many IT-relatedstandards and best practices, each
providing guidance on a subset of IT activities. COBIT 5 aligns with other relevant standards and frameworks at a high
level, and thus can serve as the overarchingframework for governance and management of enterprise IT.
Principle 4: Enabling a Holistic Approach—Efficient and effective governance and management of enterprise IT
require a holistic approach,taking into account several interacting components. COBIT 5 defines a set of enablers to
support the implementation of a comprehensive governance and management system for enterprise IT. Enablers are...