COBIT Design Factors (DF)
	1. Enterprise Strategy
		Growth/Acquisition
		Innovation/Differentiation
		Cost Leadership
		Client Service/Stability
	2. Enterprise goals
		Portfolio of competitive products and services
		Managed business risk
		Compliance with external laws and regulations
		Quality of financial information
		Customer-oriented service culture
		Business service continuity and availability
		Quality of management information
		Optimization of internal business process functionality
		Optimization of business process costs
		Staff skills, motivation and productivity
		Compliance with internal policies
		Managed digital transformation programs
		Product and business innovation
		Customer
		Financial
		Growth
		Internal
	3. Risk profile
		IT-investment decision making, portfolio definition and maintenance
		Program and projects lifecycle management
		IT cost and oversight
		IT expertise, skills and behavior
		Enterprise/IT architecture
		IT operational infrastructure incidents
		Unauthorized actions
		Software adoption/usage problems
		Hardware incidents
		Software failures
		Logical attacks (hacking, malware, etc.)
		Third-party/supplier incidents
		Noncompliance
		Geopolitical issues
		Industrial action
		Acts of nature
		Technology-based innovation
		Environmental
		Data and information management
		Risk Category
	4. I&T-related issues
		A...T (20)
	5. Threat landscape
		Normal
		High
	6. Compliance requirements
		Low compliance requirements
		Normal compliance requirements
		High compliance requirements
	7. Role of IT
		Support
		Factory
		Turnaround
		Strategic
	8. Sourcing model for IT
		Outsourcing
		Cloud
		Insourced
		Hybrid
	9. IT implementation methods
		Agile
		DevOps
		Traditional
		Hybrid
	10. Technology adoption strategy
		First mover
		Follower
		Slow adopter
	11. Enterprise size
		Large enterprise (default)
		Small and medium enterprise
	Designing
		Step 1: Understand the Enterprise Context and Strategy
			Understand Enterprise Strategy
			Understand Enterprise Goals
			Understand the Risk Profile
			Understand Current I&T-Related Issues
		Step 2: Determine the Initial Scope of the Governance System
			Translating Design Factors into Governance and Management Priorities
			Consider Enterprise Strategy (DF 1)
			Consider Enterprise Goals and Apply the COBIT Goals Cascade (DF 2)
			Consider the Risk Profile of the Enterprise (DF 3)
			Consider Current I&T-Related Issues of the Enterprise (DF 4)
		Step 3: Refine the Scope of the Governance System
			Consider the Threat Landscape (DF 5)
			Consider Compliance Requirements (DF 6)
			Consider the Role of IT (DF 7)
			Consider the Sourcing Model for IT (DF 8)
			Consider IT Implementation Methods (DF 9)
			Consider the Technology Adoption Strategy (DF 10)
			Consider Enterprise Size (DF 11)
		Step 4: Resolve Conflicts and Conclude the Governance System Design
			Resolve Inherent Priority Conflicts
			Conclude the Governance System Design

	Design factors are factors that can influence the design of an enterprise’s governance system and position it for
success in the use of I&T