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This paper shows the overview of the results of measuring maturity level of IT Governance in Croatia. In this research many companies from private and public sector were included. Also, the results of the global survey on IT governance, focused on specific topics such as IT risks and value delivery, are presented. The deductions, came out of these researches, could lead to two directions. One of them points out the need for defining targets for improvement and developing improvement plan. For this purpose it is possible to use Implementation Road Map, based on CobIT and Val IT. IT governance is a life cycle that, for a specific objective, can be entered at any point but is best started from the point of aligned business and IT strategy. Then, the implementation will be focused on delivering the value that the strategy promises and addressing the risks that need to be managed. The other deduction, especially from the survey in Croatia, specifies that is possible to use simplified version of IT Governance framework, because the breadth and depth of the guidance provided by full framework may be too detailed and overwhelming for smaller organizations. That may require too much time and money, and couldn’t be pay out at the end.