Framework overlap

Does ISO 37000:2021 cover ISO/IEC 38500:2024?

You hold ISO 37000:2021 and have been told to do ISO/IEC 38500:2024. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

30% of ISO/IEC 38500:2024 you already have

ISO 37000:2021 already covers about 30% of ISO/IEC 38500:2024, leaving 42 of 60 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 8 Likely covered 10 New work 42

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 37000:2021 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

4.1
Outcomes of good governance of IT
4.1.2
Effective performance
4.1.3
Responsible stewardship
4.1.4
Ethical behaviour
4.2
Principles, model and framework
5.10.1
Principle
5.10.3
Outcomes
5.11.1
Principle
5.11.3
Outcomes
5.12.1
Principle
5.12.3
Outcomes
5.2.1
Principle
5.2.3
Outcomes
5.3.1
Principle
5.3.3
Outcomes
5.4.1
Principle
5.4.3
Outcomes
5.5
Oversight
5.5.1
Principle
5.5.3
Outcomes
5.6.1
Principle
5.6.3
Outcomes
5.7.1
Principle
5.7.3
Outcomes
5.8
Leadership
5.8.1
Principle
5.8.3
Outcomes
5.9.1
Principle
5.9.3
Outcomes
6.2
Governance of IT practice
6.2.1
Engage stakeholders
6.2.2
Evaluate
6.2.3
Direct
6.2.4
Monitor
6.3
Management of IT practice
6.4
Framework for the governance of IT
7.2
Elements of the framework
7.2.2
Direction
7.2.3
Capability
7.2.4
Policy
7.2.5
Delegation
7.2.6
Performance
Show the 18 you already have
5.10
Risk governance
5.11
Social responsibility
5.12
Viability and performance over time
5.3
Value generation
5.6
Accountability
5.7
Stakeholder engagement
5.9
Data and decisions
7.2.7
Accountability
5.10.2
Governance implications for use of IT
5.11.2
Governance implications for use of IT
5.12.2
Governance implications for use of IT
5.2.2
Governance implications for use of IT
5.3.2
Governance implications for use of IT
5.4.2
Governance implications for use of IT
5.6.2
Governance implications for use of IT
5.7.2
Governance implications for use of IT
5.8.2
Governance implications for use of IT
5.9.2
Governance implications for use of IT

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 37000:2021 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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