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Use the goals cascade to ensure alignment
From the course: Learning COBIT
Use the goals cascade to ensure alignment
- [Instructor] Many organizations struggle with the idea of aligning their IT strategy with the overall enterprise strategy. One solution to this is the goals cascade. It is a generic tool that can take an enterprise's specific stakeholder needs and drivers and associate these with the various goals identified in the COBIT framework, ultimately identifying the most influential governance and management objectives, and therefore, which processes should be addressed. Information on the goals cascade comes primarily from two COBIT publications, the Introduction and Methodology that offers a high-level view and description of the cascade and the Governance and Management Objectives guide that illustrates the various mapping tables that puts this cascade into actionable results. Let's start with the Introduction and Methodology first. The COBIT 2019 Introduction and Methodology publication will introduce you to the goals cascade…