Information Technology (IT) is a key aspect for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). IT is present in almost all HEIs activities and, as a result of this importance, is a strategic asset that needs to be managed in an effective and efficient way. Moreover, IT will transform the way education is delivered, managed, and accessed by students. On the other hand, IT Governance is one of the concerns for organizations all over the world. IT Governance is the organizational capacity to control the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and in this way ensure the fusion of business and IT. Apart from generic IT Governance models and standards (COBIT, Calder-Moir, ISO/IEC 38500, …), literature reported several efforts on IT Governance for HEIs, being University-oriented IT Governance Frameworks in Spain, one of the most important, cited, and recent ones and the pioneering work from Juiz. This project gathered a set of researchers from four European universities with a wide experience in developing and deploying IT Governance (including ITG4U and dFogit) framework models from three different countries (Spain, Germany, and Norway) to develop, adapt and test a new IT governance framework to be implemented in several Universities in Albania. The project was developed in three main blocks: first, the training and capacitation of stakeholders, second, the assessment and development issues, and third the deployment. Results of this project include a better governance model for IT in Albanian HEIs as well as an overall modernization of the governance processes for HEIs and a contribution of the cooperation between EU and Albania.
Information Technology (IT) is a key aspect for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). IT is present in almost all HEIs activities and, as a result of this importance, is a strategic asset that needs to be managed in an effective and efficient way. Moreover, IT will transform the way education is delivered, managed, and accessed by students. On the other hand, IT Governance is one of the concerns for organizations all over the world. IT Governance is the organizational capacity to control the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and in this way ensure the fusion of business and IT.Apart from generic IT Governance models and standards (COBIT, Calder-Moir, ISO/IEC 38500, …), literature reported several efforts on IT Governance for HEIs, being University-oriented IT Governance Frameworks in Spain, one of the most important, cited, and recent ones [1] and the pioneering work from Juiz [2].This project is aimed to gather a set of researchers from four European universities with a wide experience in developing and deploying IT Governance (including ITG4U and dFogit) framework models from three different countries (Spain, Germany, and Norway) to develop, adapt and test a new IT governance framework to be implemented in several Universities in Albania. The project is developed in three main blocks: first, the training and capacitation of stakeholders, second, the assessment and development issues, and third the deployment. Expected results of this project include a better governance model for IT in Albanian HEIs as well as an overall modernization of the governance processes for HEIs and a contribution of the cooperation between EU and Albania.[1] Hontoria, E., Fernández, A., & de-la-Fuente, M. V.. Method for IT Governance Based on Enterprise Modelling. In Industrial Engineering: Innovative Networks (pp. 219-226). Springer London, pp. 219-226, 2012.[2] New Engagement Model of IT Governance and IT Management for the Communication of the IT Value at Enterprises Digital Enterprise and Information Systems, Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 194, pp. 129-143, 2011.[3] Gómez B., Bermejo B., Juiz C. (2017) IT Governance and Its Implementation Based on a Detailed Framework of IT Governance (dFogIT) in Public Enterprises. In: Rusu L., Viscusi G. (eds) Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58978-7_6[4] Gómez, B., Juiz, C., Colomo-Palacios, R., & Fernández, A. (2018). Information Technology Governance for Tunisian Universities (ITG4TU): a real experience of IT governance framework capacity building from European Universities. In EUNIS 2018 Conference (p. 12).[5] Gómez, B., & Juiz, C. IT Governance implementation in developing countries: applying the Spanish ITG4U framework to four Tunisian HEIs.[6] Kajo Meçe, E., Sheme, E., Trandafili, E., Juiz, C., Gómez, B., & Colomo-Palacios, R. (2020). Governing IT in HEIs: Systematic Mapping Review. Business Systems Research: International journal of the Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy, 11(3), 93-109.