Modern children's toys are manufactured and sold nationally by Toyz Palace. There are three Toyz Palace production facilities in South Africa: one each in Durban, Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth. They have just launched their seventeenth retail location where the general public can purchase their goods.

At one of the retail locations or one of the manufacturing facilities, Toyz Palace employs around $900$ people in total. Toyz Palace's spread structure means that almost all of their business procedures are completely interconnected and dependent on ICT. For instance, the travelling sales persons use their mobile phones and tablets to market their merchandise, to place orders, etc.their products, take or

Due to the fast growth of Toyz Palace, their governance structures, duties and responsibilities have certainly not stayed abreast of modern trends in this regard. The Board of Directors consists of eight directors, including Mr Jonas who is also the CEO. All of these directors are well$-$schooled in finances, the law or human resources. None of them have got any formal knowledge of ICT or any related discipline. Ms Watson acts as the ICT director and is the most senior ICT employee. She reports to the financial director, Mr Moore. As a result of the rapid growth of the company and pervasive usage of ICT in just about all business processes, the proliferation of ICT in Toyz Palace took place in a very haphazard manner. Further, the external auditors have issued serious warnings about the lack of proper strategic alignment between the business and ICT objectives, the information security situation, the lack of proper ICT controls and total absence of ICT resource planning and management.ders, and other tasks using their smartphones and taYour instruction

You were recently appointed as a member of the ICT department. Ms Watson, your direct line manager, learnt about the fact that you recently graduated with an MPhil in IT Governance and she asked you to prepare a PowerPoint presentation for the Board of Toyz Palace.

Your presentation should:

$1.$ Convince them that ICT does not really add satisfactory value to the company in the way that it is currently managed and governed;

$2.$ Convince them that it is actually their responsibility to oversee the wellbeing of ICT;

$3.$ Convince them that proper ICT governance is part and parcel of modern corporate governance;