Effective Governance through simultaneous use of COBIT and Val IT

All of successful enterprises globally recognize that information technology is an important supporter in economic success and a strategic cooperator. These enterprises utilize IT Governance to achieve more and more value. But whereas the involvement of business is also crucial in creating value from IT investments, the necessity of a migrating from IT Governance to Enterprise Governance of IT has been appeared. This means enterprises need to establish Enterprise Governance of IT through the frameworks so that they can clarify IT functionality and business functionality, properly. In this way, COBIT and Val IT frameworks can be facilitator. It is necessary that enterprises understand relationships between these two frameworks and utilize them simultaneously to get great success. So in this paper, we aim to declare the relationships between COBIT4.1 and Val IT2.0 to help enterprises to enable both business and IT people in supporting of business/IT alignment and realizing of business value from IT-enabled business investments.