The IT systems (data, software & infrastructure) are playing more and more important role in the contemporary business. IT is heavily influencing the efficiency of any business on both sides: revenue and costs. It’s hard to imagine effective, competitive and sustainable organization without well-aligned business and IT on all activity levels. Additionally, IT also plays an important role on both short- and long-term business perspectives. For example, in the process of introducing of digital products or business decisions relying on the ability to analyze complex and big datasets.
Outside world also generates new challenges. Many authorities have started to introduce various regulations, such as SOX, AML, GDPR etc. , and this fact forces business entities to use dedicated IT systems.
To fulfill such demand, each organization needs to create a set of guidelines and rules driving decisions about IT called ‘IT Governance”. The implementation of IT governance requires the creation or modification of existing rules, processes, roles and responsibilities, as well as selection and implementation of tools. We should also expect changes within the IT Organization itself.
IT Processes & Governance encompases the following areas:
The level of investments in IT is constantly increasing in a company’s budgets, therefore organizations pay more and more attention to use it in the most efficient way.
The old approach, where IT was mainly perceived as the back-office support and the cost factor, is nowadays gone. At the present time, the IT department in most organizations has become an important partner for business or even a source of competitive advantage. The proper alignment of business and IT on all cooperation levels requires a new strategic thinking about such cooperation. Despite its importance, the implementation of IT Governance is still encountering significant challenges since there is a need to:
Due to significant differences and the lack of universal, robust standards, each company must tailor and implement its own version of IT Governance framework. This could be achieved either internally, by using own resources of an organization, or with the help of external partners, by using their expert skills.An efficient IT Governance (usually in the form of framework) consists of the following elements/activities:
This will allow to achieve the following:
Our services related to IT Governance or IT Processes:
Shorter time and lower overall costs to obtain tangible business benefits.
Limited need to build and maintain IT Governance capabilities
Access to experts with unique knowledge and experience not available internally
Lowered risk of failure/changes/rework during development & implementation of IT Governance
Shorter time and better return from investments in IT (TTV, ROI)
IT/business knowledge extracted and build into organizational rules & processes
Higher efficiency of IT Operation in both areas (new systems, maintenance of old systems)
Secure knowledge building and transfer between business and IT (both ways)
Efficient cooperation with external vendors thanks to well-defined cooperation rules or processes.
Fast organizational learning from inevitable mistakes and failures.
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