IT Governance - Approach An important guideline in accomplishing goals is that of having an approach. Here is an approach that I believe will assist in reaching organizational goals. The approach of having a Governance Committeeis one can accomplish IT Governance at various levels. Typically, when one hears the term “committee” or governing board, one … Continue reading IT Governance – Approach
IT Policy - Approach An important guideline in accomplishing goals is that of having an approach. Here is an approach that I believe will assist in reaching organizational goals. An Industry Security Policy. One approach is basing IT Policy on exiting Industry (industry as in the industry an organization operates in) security policy and applying … Continue reading IT Policy – Approach
IT Strategy - Approach An important guideline in accomplishing goals is that of having an approach. Here is an approach that I believe will assist in reaching organizational goals. Stakeholder Involvement is a very critical approach when it comes to delivering value via IT Strategy. Often times executive level management is tasked with making strategic decisions, … Continue reading IT Strategy – Approach
IT Governance - Key Methods The below can be seen as a Guideline that will assist with accomplishing goals as an IT professional. Key method: Balanced Scorecard, lays out enterprise and IT related goals and grouping them with balanced score card perspectives. [1, page 10]. This method gives a realistic approach that would make sense … Continue reading IT Governance – Key Methods
IT Policy - Key Methods The below can be seen as a Guideline that will assist with accomplishing goals as an IT professional. Key method: IT Assurance is one manner of ensuring IT Policy is being upheld on top of analyzing performance. COBIT4 describes the objective of IT Assurance as follows: “The objective of an … Continue reading IT Policy – Key Methods
IT Strategy - Key Methods The below can be seen as a Guideline that will assist with accomplishing goals as an IT professional. Key method: The COBIT4 mentions the concept of Plan and Organize as something vital to IT Strategy. The 2007 textbook makes the following statement regarding the mentioned method: “The realisation of the … Continue reading IT Strategy – Key Methods
IT Governance - Key Concepts The below can be seen as a Guideline that will assist with accomplishing goals as an IT professional. Key concept: Control Base(d) is a concept described in COBIT4 as follows: “Control is defined as the policies, procedures, practices and organisational structures designed to provide reasonable assurance that business objectives will be … Continue reading IT Governance – Key Concepts
IT Policy - Key Concepts The below can be seen as a Guideline that will assist with accomplishing goals as an IT professional. Key concept: IT Risk, IT Policy can be seen as the “rules” that keep law and order within an organization. IT Risk in a sense can be viewed as the outcomes/results of … Continue reading IT Policy – Key Concepts
IT Strategy - Key Concepts The below can be seen as a Guideline that will assist with accomplishing goals as an IT professional. Key concept: At its root “strategy” is essentially a plan that will be used to achieve a goal. Knowing this one can make the argument that the COBIT4 is the framework that … Continue reading IT Strategy – Key Concepts
CA PPM (Formerly Clarity PPM) The need for a tool to execute in order to meet your organizational goal is a very critical guideline. Here are some details of a tool I believe is appropriate. PPM stands for “Project Portfolio Management”. [1] CA PPM is a tool that will allow organizations insight and oversight for … Continue reading Appropriate Tools – CA PPM
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