Achieve IT Governance by Adopting Good Practices

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Good IT Governance Practice Enables:

• Leadership to ask the right questions and interpret the answers
• An appropriate IT governance framework to be adopted
• Critical success factors to be addressed by leadership

Focus Areas—Ask Questions—Get Answers

Measure IT Governance Performance

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Apply effective governance of IT and assess performance and identify precisely where and how improvements can be made—not just to the IT governance process itself but also to all processes that need to be managed within and around IT.

Define IT Governance Objectives and Measure Results

IT Governance: a Continuous Program of Improvement

A Primer on IT Governance

IT governance is "Specifying the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the use of IT.” 

~ Weill and Ross

IT Governance Delivers Value

Fundamentally, IT governance is concerned with IT’s delivery of value to the business and the mitigation of IT risks. Both are enabled by strategic alignment of IT with the business, and the availability of adequate resources. Management measures performance to monitor progress toward desired goals.

Development Plan for Internal IT Controls

Information Technology (IT) Governance

Monitor the internal control for IT related activities and identify improvement actions.

Hanged Man

Objectives

• Continuously monitor, benchmark, and improve the IT control environment and control framework to meet organizational objectives. 
• Monitor and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of internal IT managerial review controls. 
• Evaluate the completeness and effectiveness of management’s control over IT processes, policies and contracts through a continuing program of self-assessment. 

4 Key Elements of the World Class IT Organization

Important Features of the World Class IT Organization

1. Successful IT Governance requires that the IT organizations take a portfolio approach to managing their inventory of projects.

2. Any technology solution must reflect the current and future realities of the IT community, which will continue to be heavily dependent on scarce human resources. Information Technology areas must retain intellectual capital in the face of rapid employee turnover; enable geographically dispersed teams to work effectively; provide for the joint development of work products and effective communication processes; and accelerate time-to-market.