Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation:
The CGEIT Review Manual 8th Edition, in its Benefits Realization domain, emphasizes ensuring that IT investments deliver maximum value aligned with business objectives. An IT value delivery framework is a structured approach to managing IT initiatives to ensure they create, sustain, and optimize value for the enterprise. This involves defining value metrics, aligning IT projects with strategic goals, and monitoring outcomes throughout the project lifecycle.
Option D: Optimize value to the enterprise is the primary purpose of an IT value delivery framework. The framework ensures that IT investments are prioritized, executed, and evaluated to maximize benefits (e.g., revenue growth, cost savings, operational efficiency) while minimizing risks and costs. For example, it might use value management techniques (e.g., cost-benefit analysis, ROI tracking) to ensure IT projects deliver measurable outcomes aligned with enterprise goals. The manual likely references COBIT 2019’s APO05-Managed Portfolio, which focuses on optimizing the value of IT investments.
Option A: Improve value of successful IT projects is too narrow, as the framework aims to optimize value across all IT initiatives, not just successful ones.
Option B: Increase transparency of value to the enterprise is a secondary benefit. While transparency (e.g., through reporting) is important, the primary goal is value optimization.
Option C: Assist top management in approving IT projects is a governance function, not the primary focus of value delivery, which occurs post-approval during execution and evaluation.
Double Verification: The answer aligns with COBIT’s APO05 and the CGEIT domain’s focus on benefits realization. The term “optimize value” is consistent with ISACA’s emphasis on maximizing stakeholder value in GEIT.
ISACA CGEIT Review Manual 8th Edition, Domain 3: Benefits Realization (focus on value management).
COBIT 2019, APO05-Managed Portfolio.
ISACA Glossary (for definitions of value delivery), available at https://www.isaca.org/resources/glossary.
