Improve IT Governance to Drive Business Results
Avoid bureaucracy and achieve alignment with a minimalist approach.
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Unmanaged and ad hoc approaches to IT governance cause:
- The right people are not making the right decisions about IT.
- Long decision-making cycles.
- Conflicting guidance around prioritization.
- Limited scope for the management of risk process.
- Absent or incomplete management of portfolios – no lifecycle approach.
- Undocumented, incomplete knowledge and information, and no formal knowledge transfer.
- Delayed or accelerated project implementations.
- Duplicated effort and technology redundancies between departments.
- IT-focused reporting instead of business focused.
Having an effective IT governance structure and processes will allow you to:
- Provide a formalized process for managing organizational decision making.
- Save time and money by ensuring that time spent in meetings is effective and that the right people are in those meetings, and preserve IT’s ability to make the most appropriate decision.
- Foster a culture of accountability for decision making, identifying and resolving issues, and foster communication throughout the organization.
- Optimize risk by ensuring proper risk thresholds are understood, targeted, and ultimately managed.
- Optimize your resource allocation by reducing wasteful activities through proper allocation of authority through defined, documented, and communicated roles and responsibilities.
Module 1: Identify the Need for Governance
The Purpose
Identify the need for governance in your organization and engage the leadership team in the redesign process.
Key Benefits Achieved
Establish an engagement standard for the leadership of your organization in the IT governance redesign.
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| 1.1 | Identify stakeholders. |
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| 1.2 | Make the case for improved IT governance. |
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| 1.3 | Customize communication plan. |
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Module 2: Align IT With the Business Context
The Purpose
Create a mutual understanding with the business leaders of the current state of the organization and the state of business it is moving towards.
Key Benefits Achieved
The understanding of the business context will provide an aligned foundation on which to redesign the IT governance framework.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Review documents. |
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| 2.2 | Analyze frameworks. |
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| 2.3 | Conduct brainstorming. |
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| 2.4 | Finalize the Statement of Business Context. |
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Module 3: Assess the Current Governance Framework
The Purpose
Establish a baseline of the current governance framework.
Key Benefits Achieved
Develop guidelines based off results from the current state that will guide the future state design.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Create committee profiles. |
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| 3.2 | Build governance structure map. |
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| 3.3 | Establish governance guidelines. |
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Module 4: Redesign the Governance Framework
The Purpose
Redesign the governance structure and the committees that operate within it.
Key Benefits Achieved
Build a future state of governance where the relationships and processes that are built drive optimal business results.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Build governance structure map. |
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| 4.2 | Create committee profiles. |
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Module 5: Implement Governance Redesign
The Purpose
Build a roadmap for implementing the governance redesign.
Key Benefits Achieved
Create a transparent and relationship-oriented implementation strategy that will pave the way for a successful redesign implementation.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 5.1 | Identify next steps for the redesign. |
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| 5.2 | Establish communication plan. |
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| 5.3 | Lead executive presentation. |
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