Developing IT Governance in Brazilian Public Organizations

This paper presents a method for developing IT governance in public organizations. The method was developedin a deductive way from the confluence of theories of IT governance, participative management, strategicmanagement and planning, and public value. Qualitative data about the method application in five Brazilianpublic organizations showed that the proposed method allowed these organizations develop IT governancealigned with specific demands of this sector. Based on these case studies, results show patterns of demands forIT and IT governance mechanisms in studied organizations. This work contributes to better understand on how tostrategically align IT to public organizations value proposal.