Knowledge and Understanding:

High: knowledge about the challenges and opportunities facing decision makers in (large) enterprises with IT related laws and regulations and the transformation in decisions, at least in processes and activities (problem-solving competences).
Understanding (analytical skills) about the rapidly increasing requirements in terms of compliance, governance and risk management (based on practical cases and experience).
Good understanding about the relationship between (IT) governance, risk and compliance as well as the role of (IT) audit . Privacy requirements as a special expertise focused on the EU GDPR.

Applying Knowledge and Understanding:

High: application of certain areas of a selected reference model (e.g. COBIT 2019) to a selected company/ use case (decisionmaking ability); performing a systematic gap analysis/audit with associated reports (using a software solution) (analytical skills).

Making Judgements:

Medium: ability to propose necessary activities or controls based on a systematic and well documented gap analysis/audit (resultsoriented action).

Communications Skills:

Medium: ability to prepare and present short presentations and write a report about topics in the field of IT governance, compliance and/or risk management, inclusive an assessment of consequences and/or value proposition tradeoff (communication skills).

Learning Skills: Students ...

learn and work independently, recognize gaps in their knowledge and fill these gaps independently. They are able to reflect work resp. thought processes, and develop possible courses of action. In addition, they are able to reflect and challenge personal and external judgments and develop these with regard to the assignment.

IT Governance, Risk and Compliance