• Structure and format of the COBIT 2019 framework
• Key stakeholders of COBIT 2019
• Business benefits provided by COBIT 2019

Provide stakeholder value

• Benefits realization
• Risk and resource optimization
• Supporting the creation of business value through IT
• Transforming stakeholder needs into an enterprise’s actionable strategy
• Clarifying the purpose of the goals cascade
• Translating high-level enterprise goals into specific IT-related goals

Based on conceptual model

• Identifying key components
• Relationships between key components
• Maximizing consistency and allowing automation

Open and flexible

• Updating content
• Addressing new issues
• Maintaining integrity and consistency

COBIT 2019 Core Model

• The forty governance and management objectives
• The five-domain structure

Principles, policies, procedures

• Meeting good practice requirements for the scope, compliance, exceptions and monitoring
• Differentiating policies, principles and procedures

Processes

• Reviewing the key characteristics of the process goal categories

Organizational structures

• Implementing practices for operations, responsibility delegation and decision-making
• The key responsibilities of key organizational roles

Culture, ethics and behavior

• Creating, encouraging and maintaining desired behaviors
• Relating organizational and individual ethics with goals

Information

• Reviewing the information quality categories
• Interrelating the five steps of the information cycle with the information enablers
• Applying information attributes to layers
• Assessing context and quality of information to the user with key attributes

Services, infrastructure and applications

• Analyzing the five architecture principles that govern the use of IT-related resources
• Relationship with the other enablers

People, skills and competencies

• Defining skill requirements for each role
• Mapping the skill categories to the process domains
• Skill categories in relation to the process domains

Performance Management Principles

• Simple to understand and use
• Consistent with conceptual model
• Providing reliable, repeatable, relevant results
• Flexible to suit different organizations
• Supporting multiple assessment types

Managing performance of processes

• CMMI-based process capability scheme
• The six process capability levels
• Focus area maturity levels
• Managing performance of other components

The design process

• Understanding the need for tailoring
• Using design factors and variants
• Stages and steps in the design process

The relationship between design and implementation
The COBIT 2019 seven phase implementation approach

• What are the drivers?
• Where are we now?
• Where do we want to be?
• What needs to be done?
• How do we get there?
• Did we get there?
• How do we keep the momentum going?