Review and Improve Your IT Policy Library
Create policies for the risks that matter most to your organization.
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Ineffective policy management can lead to the following challenges:
- IT policies are written reactively and are too narrowly scoped to address business risks.
- IT policies are not well understood or enforced by the business.
- Policies are difficult to locate and often provide contradictory prescriptions for behavior.
- Policy management challenges take up too much of your time and focus.
Better policy management will help you:
- Fully mitigate critical IT risks.
- Simplify your IT policy network.
- Standardize employee problem-solving process and behavior.
- Improve policy adherence, employee engagement, and risk awareness.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Establish & Assess
The Purpose
- Identify the pain points associated with IT policies.
- Establish the policy development process.
- Begin formulating a plan to re-design the policy network.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Establish the policy process.
- Highlight key issues and pain points regarding policy.
- Assign roles and responsibilities.
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| 1.1 | Introduce workshop. |
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| 1.2 | Identify the current pain points with policy management. |
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| 1.3 | Establish high-level goals around policy management. |
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| 1.4 | Select metrics to measure achievement of goals. |
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| 1.5 | Create an IT policy working group (ITPWG). |
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| 1.6 | Define the scope and purpose of the ITPWG. |
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Module 2: Assess Your Risk Landscape & Map Policies to Risks; Create a Policy Action Plan
The Purpose
- Identify key risks.
- Develop an understanding of which risks are most critical.
- Design a policy network that best mitigates those risks.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Use a risk-driven approach to decide which policies need to be written or updated first.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Identify risks at a high level. |
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| 2.2 | Assess each identified risk scenario on impact and likelihood. |
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| 2.3 | Map current and required policies to risks. |
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| 2.4 | Assess policy effectiveness. |
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| 2.5 | Create a policy action plan. |
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| 2.6 | Select policies to be developed during workshop. |
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Module 3: Develop Policies
The Purpose
Outline what key features make a policy effective and write policies that mitigate the most critical IT risks.
Key Benefits Achieved
Write policies that work and get them approved.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Define the policy audience, constraints, and in-scope and out-of-scope requirements for a policy. |
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| 3.2 | Draft two to four policies |
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Module 4: Create a Policy Communication and Implementation Plan and Monitor & Reassess the Portfolio
The Purpose
Build an understanding of how well the organization’s value creation activities are being supported.
Key Benefits Achieved
Identify an area or capability that requires improvement.
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| 4.1 | Review draft policies and update if necessary. |
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| 4.2 | Create a policy communication plan. |
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| 4.3 | Select KPIs. |
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| 4.4 | Review root-cause analysis techniques. |
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