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In today’s business economy, effective IT governance is critical to the success of an organization and is essential to enhancing the value and efficiency of business operations.
IT governance organizations focus on the value of IT investments and 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 offers you opportunities to transform how you do business.
The importance and reliance on IT makes IT an integral part of the governance responsibilities of the enterprise and balances risk exposure, not only for investors, but also for regulators and auditors.
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.
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, and 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.
IT governance services
The IBM IT governance services are specially designed to help you assess key governance processes as they relate to nine of the most requested IT areas of governance concern:
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)
The IBM IT governance services provide a structured service framework for assessing your organization’s IT governance maturity using a services-led review to identify and document IT governance processes and to assess the efficacy of those processes.
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 the Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) to manage the incremental improvement in business processes. When 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 MCIF to measure your progress towards applying these practices.
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