valid. Ensure implemented ICT performs as expected, if not better, when needed. Verify that ICT conforms to a set of formal rules. Ensure ICT respects human factors. It also includes a model demonstrating how directors should monitor and evaluate how their organization is using ICT in response to the pressures and demands being placed on the company. The standard also lays out vocabulary that helps unify other previous standards with AS 8015. As one of the first standards to lay out IT governance so simply, AS 8015 strongly influenced the development of ISO/IEC 38500:2008 Information technology — Governance of IT for the organization, an international standard that went on to make "a clear distinction between governance and management." See also Corporate governance of information technology Data governance ISO/IEC 38500 References External links Archive of early work by IT-030 Background from Ramin Communications, a significant contributor to the project Information technology governance Corporate governance in Australia Standards of Australia