Homogenization, comparison and integration: a harmonizing strategy for the unification of multi-models in the banking sector

  • Authors:

  • César Pardo;Francisco J. Pino;Félix García;Mario Piattini;Maria Teresa Baldassarre;Sandra Lemus

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Cauca, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia and Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, España;University of Cauca, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia and Alarcos Research Group,Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, España;Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, España;Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, España;Department of Informatics, University of Bari., Bari, Italy;Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, España and Superintendencia de Bancos de Guatemala, Guatemala

  • Venue:
  • PROFES'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Product-focused software process improvement
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Information Technologies (IT) play a crucial role in the development of the business processes in organizations. Acquiring the best technologies is quickly becoming as important as understanding and improving the business model of organizations. As a result, many (inter)national standards and models for IT Management, IT Government and IT Security have been developed. This situation allows organizations to choose and improve their processes, selecting the models that best suit their needs. Since several relationships between these models can be found, carrying out the harmonization of their similarities and differences will make it possible to reduce the time and effort involved in implementing them. In this paper, we present a harmonization strategy which has been defined to harmonize COBIT 4.1, Basel II, VAL IT, RISK IT, ISO 27002 and ITIL V3. This work intends to support organizations which are interested in knowing how to carry out the harmonization of these models. Furthermore, as a result of the execution of the harmonization strategy we have defined, a unified model for Banking, called ITGSM, is presented. It resolves the conflicts between the models mentioned above and provides a useful reference model to organizations that are planning to adopt them.