COBIT 5 Key Audience Messages
Enterprise Leadership
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Boards
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Executive Management
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Enterprise Management
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Other Stakeholders
Segmented Messages
The significance of information and
related technology is growing. Even at
technical levels, enterprise leaders
require strong business acumen. What’s
your biggest business issue? Your
information. COBIT 5 is a major strategic
improvement providing the next
generation of ISACA’s guidance on the
governance of enterprise IT and will
provide a renewed and authoritative
governance and management framework
for enterprise information and related
technology.
Enterprise leaders need good
information to make good business
decisions and COBIT 5’s core materials,
when applied with other ISACA’s
knowledge products, increases value
creation through effective governance of
enterprise information and technology
assets.
COBIT 5 builds on the current widely
recognized and accepted COBIT
framework, linking together and
reinforcing all other major ISACA
frameworks and guidance such as Val IT,
BMIS, Risk IT, ITAF, and Taking
Governance Forward.
COBIT 5 will connect with other major
frameworks and standards in the
marketplace (ITIL, ISO standards, etc).
COBIT 5 increases business user
satisfaction with IT, where IT is seen as a
key enabler to achieve business
objectives.
IT Professionals
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Consultants
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Assurance
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Auditors

Security

Risk and Control
Enterprise Functional Department
Management
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Business Analysts

Compliance

Finance

HR

Operations

Quality
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Regulators/Legislators
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Risk
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Others
COBIT 5 is a major strategic evolution of
COBIT 4.1, the only globally accepted
framework available for the governance
of enterprise IT, and provides the most
complete, up-to-date guidance and
management of enterprise IT to all
stakeholders including increased business
user satisfaction with IT engagement and
services.
COBIT 5 helps functional business areas
be the drivers for change as the IT
function has become more businessfocused.
COBIT 5 will include the scope of Val IT
and Risk IT within a single framework –
current users will have a more robust
functionality with better integration
(integration of BMIS and ITAF).
COBIT 5 provides a common language to
communicate with IT professionals.
COBIT 5 has a complete, consistent and
easily navigable format that promotes
access of information, functionality and
user satisfaction.
COBIT 5 consolidates all major ISACA
frameworks and research, and aligns with
other major frameworks and standards in
the marketplace, becoming one single
point of reference that can facilitate in
your interaction with IT services.
COBIT 5 consolidates all major ISACA
frameworks and research, and aligns with
other major frameworks and standards in
the marketplace, becoming one single
overarching framework enabling greater
efficiencies with time and utilization.
Among the enhancements of COBIT 5 will
be the new process capability model,
which replaces the maturity model, and
features greater focus on delivery of
required outcomes, content simplification
and consistent, repeatable reliability of
assessment results.
COBIT 5 increases business user
satisfaction with IT, where IT is seen as a
key enabler to achieve business
objectives.
COBIT 5 is a major renovation of the only
globally accepted framework available
for the governance of enterprise IT, and
allows you to create optimal value from
enterprise IT.
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COBIT 5 helps in your job and your career
by improving your ability to deal with ITrelated business issues.
COBIT 5 is a major renovation of the only
globally accepted framework available for
the governance of enterprise IT, and
provides you with the most complete,
relevant guidance on the governance and
management of enterprise IT.
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COBIT 5 Key Audience Messages
Enterprise Leadership

Boards

Executive Management

Enterprise Management

Other Stakeholders
Segmented Messages cont.
COBIT 5 provides complete, consistent
and easily navigable guidance to help
enterprises effectively govern their IT, as
well as comply with increasing legal,
regulatory and contractual obligations.
COBIT 5 promotes a more efficient and
resilient enterprise by providing a
resource to manage risks, optimize costs
and realize benefits.
COBIT 5 is intended for all enterprises,
including public, non-profit and
government; its contents are generic and
can be adapted to suit the particular
needs of your enterprise, for a
customized, end-to-end solution.
COBIT 5 helps enterprises manage ITrelated risk and ensures compliance,
continuity, security and privacy. COBIT 5
enables clear policy development and
good practice for IT management
including increased business user
satisfaction.
Executives need confidence that they can
rely on information systems and the
information produced by those systems
and get a positive return. COBIT 5
enables business executives to better
understand how to direct and manage
the enterprise’s use of IT and the
standard of good practice to be expected
from IT providers. COBIT 5 provides the
tools to direct and oversee all IT-related
activities.
COBIT 5 is a globally accepted framework
for governance and management of
information and related technology (IT)
based on industry standards and best
practices. Once implemented, executives
can ensure IT is effectively aligned with
business goals and better direct the use
of IT for business advantage.
Work is underway to produce guidance
for information security, information
assurance and risk professionals to work
effectively with the COBIT 5 framework.
©2011 ISACA
IT Professionals
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Consultants

Assurance

Auditors

Security

Risk and Control
COBIT 5 is expected to be released early
in 2012. This demonstrates ISACA’s
commitment to enhance your skills and
expand your professional knowledge.
Enterprise Functional Department
Management

Business Analysts

Compliance

Finance

HR

Operations

Quality

Regulators/Legislators

Risk

Others
COBIT 5 provides complete, consistent,
and easily navigable guidance to help
promote access of information and assist
in meeting any applicable legal,
regulatory and contractual requirements.
COBIT 5 provides opportunities to learn;
facilitating interaction and collaboration
with IT professionals within your
enterprise.
COBIT 5 is intended for all enterprises,
including public, non-profit and
government; its contents are designed to
be adapted to suit your particular needs,
for a customized solution that addresses
unique, departmental requirements.
Work is underway to produce guidance
for information security, information
assurance and risk professionals to work
effectively with the COBIT 5 framework.
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COBIT 5 Key Audience Messages
Enterprise Leadership

Boards

Executive Management

Enterprise Management

Other Stakeholders
IT Professionals

Consultants

Assurance

Auditors

Security

Risk and Control
Enterprise Functional Department
Management

Business Analysts

Compliance

Finance

HR

Operations

Quality

Regulators/Legislators

Risk

Others
COBIT 5 gives you the tools necessary to
help you understand, utilize, implement
and direct important IT-related activities,
and make more informed decisions
through simplified navigation and use.
COBIT 5 gives you the tools necessary to
help you understand, utilize, implement
and direct important IT-related activities,
and make more informed decisions
through simplified navigation and use.
Segmented Messages cont.
Common Messages For All Audiences
COBIT 5 is designed as a living document,
with a knowledge base that will
accommodate additional products and
guidance as it becomes available, thus
ensuring longevity of the COBIT 5
solution.
COBIT 5 provides an end-to-end view of
the processes and procedures that are
essential for successful management of
enterprise IT. Its adoption will help
executives at enterprises large and small
around the world.
COBIT 5’s framework structure will
include familiar components such as a
domain/process model and other
components such as governance/
management practices, RACI charts and
inputs/outputs.
COBIT 5’s initial publication introduces,
defines and describes the components
that make up the COBIT framework:
principles, architecture, enablers, using a
process assessment approach. The COBIT
5: Implementation Guide is in
development.
There will be transition support for users
of the current ISACA frameworks as they
migrate to COBIT 5.
©2011 ISACA
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