How did COBIT 4.0 evolve?
It is the intention of the IT Governance Institute and through its COBIT Steering Committee, to continuously evolve the COBIT body of knowledge. To address that goal, over the past two years the committee has led research into several detailed aspects of the control objectives and the management guidelines. The research was based on the expertise and volunteer teams of ISACA members, COBIT users, expert advisors and academics. Local development groups of 6 to 10 experts in Brussels (Belgium), London (UK), Chicago (USA), Canberra (Australia), Cape Town (South Africa), Washington DC (USA) and Copenhagen (Denmark) convened, on average, two to three times per year to work on specific research or review tasks assigned by the COBIT Steering Committee. In addition, some specific research projects were assigned to business schools such as the University of Antwerp Management School (UAMS, Belgium) and the University of Hawaii (USA). The results of these activities were fed to a number of large
