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Governance, Risk, Audit & Privacy · Intermediate

Value Delivery

Governance outcome ensuring IT and security investments deliver the expected business benefits at optimal cost.

Definition

Value delivery focuses on maximizing return on IT and security investments by selecting the right initiatives, managing them through a portfolio, and measuring realized benefits. In COBIT it relates to benefits realization, and in Val IT it is the central concept. It discourages over-investment in controls that exceed what the risk warrants.

Example

Leadership retires an expensive legacy security tool whose coverage is duplicated by a newer platform.

Exam tip

Value delivery is not just cost cutting; it means achieving benefits at an optimal cost.

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