Risk Management in IT Governance Framework

The concept of governance has an already old contour: the system by which business corporations are directed and controlled. The most praised principles regarding shareholder rights, transparency and board accountability now constitute the foundation for new tendencies evolved from such ground. Executive compensation, transparency and shareholder reporting are new issues attached to board responsibilities. Besides such almost negative approaches the board faces a more and more prominent role from risk management and IT governance perspective. Nowadays is generally acknowledged that the board is in charge for managing and controlling the risks to assets of the enterprises and business future. IT Governance has emerged as a support for corporate governance, as an important part of board’s striving efforts to perform better in a competition environment. These responsibilities, risk management and IT Governance, remain within the framework of old concept of corporate governance and are fed from its substance. The interaction between these concepts is the core interest of this research.IT Governance is defined as procedures and policies established in order to assure that the IT system of an organization sustains its goals and strategies. The management of the organisations face a new challenge: structural redefinition of the IT component in order to create plus value and to minimize IT risks through an efficient management of all IT resources of the organisation. The evolution of the present IT environment is a natural process according to which business environment should adapt.Corporate Governance, IT Governance, IT risk, Risk Management.

Audit Methodology for IT Governance

The continuous development of the new IT technologies was followed up by a rapid integration of them at the organization level. The management of the organizations face a new challenge: structural redefinition of the IT component in order to create plus value and to minimize IT risks through an efficient management of all IT resources of the organization. These changes have had a great impact on the governance of the IT component. The paper proposes an audit methodology of the IT Governance at the organization level. From this point of view the developed audit strategy is a strategy based on risks to enable IT auditor to study from the best angle efficiency and effectiveness of the IT Governance structure. The evaluation of the risks associated with IT Governance is a key process in planning the audit mission which will allow the identification of the segments with increased risks. With now ambition for completeness, the proposed methodology provides the auditor a useful tool in the accomplishment of his mission.IT Governance, Corporate Governance, IT Audit Process, IT Risk

VIRGIL MADGEARU (1887-1940) FOUNDER OF THE ROMANIAN MANAGEMENT

Characterized by eclectism and depth of scientific rigor, Professor Virgil Madgearu performed a remarkable activity in the economic sciences. Analyzing the efforts, the teaching and scientific work of the Romanian professor, his areas of expertise come off: economics, management, finance, sociology, cooperative work and study. We also found a major contribution to shaping a new discipline for those times, namely, the management of commercial and industrial companies. Realizing the importance of developing modern managerial skills among Romanian economists and leaders, Virgil Madgearu was the first who wrote, taught university courses and published the first technical and business theory, laying the foundations of science management.economic sciences, management of commercial and industrial companies, Virgil Madgearu.

The Intercultural Danube - a European Model

The EU construction began following the logic of economics, which in time it has created dysfunctions that seem to accentuate and create a quasi-general skepticism. This paper aims at analyzing the union construction and reconstruction on other conceptual premises, placing culture at the forefront of the new strategy. A multicultural Europe, based on the state ethnicity primordial is no longer current; the cultural diversity does not lead to unity, but rather it is a factor of dissolution. The Danubian model reunites races, languages and religions being so diverse that their functional diachrony justifies the idea of reconstruction, based on what it was and it did not generate tensions or conflicts. The ethnic identity did not become, in the Danube area, ethnicism, what it constitutes in a synchronic approach, as a model of rethinking the union, not by hierarchies, barriers, but rather by the opportunity of the coexistence of the peoples that connect history and the present of the horizontal axis River of a united Europe

MODERN APPROACES IN THE CONTEXT OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE

Ambient Intelligence (AmI), as a new vision and concept of the tomorrow, gathers a few features regarding both the integration of technology in the environment and the capacity technology has to recognize the user and its context, the system capacity to iAmbient Intelligence (AmI), ubiquitous computing, scenario, artificial intelligence (AI)

Comunicarea interculturală prin fantastic

Le fantastique se nourrit de l'ambiguïté, mêlant l'imaginaire et le réel dans le tissu volatil d'un même concept. Par rapport à toute autre forme de fiction, il n'exige pas un éclaircissement du mystère, refusant toute solution rationnelle ou technique. Du point de vue littéraire, le fantastique suppose la mise en oeuvre de tout un arsenal discursif révélateur d'un art subtil et habilement maîtrisé. Il implique l'idée de rupture intervenue dans un cadre ordonné et familier, dont il nie les lois considérées comme immuables, tout en dévoilant ses failles et ses tares

Stratégies Narratives de la Communication par l’Intermédiaire du Fantastique

The fantastic crisis affects the story forms and the expressive resources of language, thatbecome themselves subjects of the fantastic, questioning the boundaries between fiction and reality.Beyond a simple thematic inventory, the reflexive dimension (metafiction) becomes consubstantial tothe fantastic, designating the textual strategies meant to convey the crisis of reality postulated by themimesis. Readers, authors and characters are found within a text type which, although proclaims itselfas fictional, it "erodes" the identities, worlds and discourses. Thus, the fantastic story exhibits thenarrative processes and the elements of intertextuality, permanently placing between the brackets theborder between the world in which the story is told and the one about which the story is told