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The modern enterprise understands that IT Governance is essential to enhance the value and efficiency of business operations. In today’s business economy, effective and efficient governance is critical to the success of an organization. IT governance organizations focus on the value of IT investments and what applied technologies provide real earnings impact. It offers the enterprise opportunities to transform the way it does business and is strategic to growth. This importance and reliance on IT makes IT an integral part of the governance responsibilities of the enterprise and balanced risk exposure, not only for investors but also for regulators and auditors.
Governance in any form is about leadership. And IT governance is about the way in which leadership accomplishes the delivery of mission-critical business capability. IT governance is concerned with the strategic alignment between the goals and objectives of the business and the utilization of its resources to effectively achieve the desired results.
IT governance issues manifest themselves as the organization tackles core IT issues of efficiency, control, and value delivered to the business. A root cause analysis of these issues often uncovers blockages that can only be resolved by clarifying and strengthening fundamental IT governance processes. The need to improve IT governance can often be signaled by issues involving efficiency, control and value.
Efficiency
Organizations that view the IT organization as a cost center often focus on key outcomes such as improving system throughput, enhancing system stability, increasing code productivity and reducing time to delivery. For these organizations, selecting the right metrics and measurement control systems can serve as a quantifiable entry point to improving IT governance maturity.
Control
Organizations that prioritize IT issues of security and control focus on addressing the inherent risks of IT projects, including the risks of project failure, audit failure, security and privacy breaches. For these organizations, focusing on internal IT control systems can improve IT governance maturity as IT proactively manages risk.
Value
Organizations that view IT as a value creation center grasp the central role of IT organization as a strategic asset that can help the business penetrate new markets and expand existing markets. For these organizations, a focus on product innovation and time to value can be supported through clear governance policies that help translate IT activities into measurements of business value. |
The IBM IT Governance Services are specially designed to help our customers assess key governance processes as they relate to nine of the most-requested IT areas of governance concern. The IBM IT Governance Services provides a structured service framework for assessing your organization’s IT governance maturity. It provides organizations with a services-led review that can identify and document IT governance processes and assess the efficacy of those processes.
The IBM IT Governance Services explores nine key IT governance disciplines, including
- Sponsorship and Organizational Change
- Governance Methods, Processes, Practices
- Portfolio Management (IBM Best Practices)
- Risk Management
- PMO and Review Boards
- Governance and Control Objectives (CoBIT)
- Project Management
- Software and Systems Development
- Service Management (ITIL)
Within each discipline, the IT Governance Services can help identify the current state of governance processes, measurement and control systems, and IT chains of authority and decision-making. It can then work with organizations to establish a roadmap for helping themselves to examine and improve their own processes for governing the business of IT.
IBM also provides a framework approach to managing the incremental improvement in business processes. In the situation where you
know that your key time to market initiatives are supported by particular development approaches - such as use-case development; IBM can provide leading development practice examples in use case development, and a framework approach for you to measure your progress towards applying these practices. This is called the IBM measured capability improvement framework and is one of the key techniques to improve business processes.
To learn more about the IBM IT Governance Services offering and other related topics, please review the highlights section on this page for more information.
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