IT governance is a critical initiative for your entire organisation. However, responsibility for the implementation and maintenance is delegated to the IT department. Often as organisational budgets are developed, insufficient funds are provided to the IT department. This prevents IT from providing the organisation with robust IT Governance systems.
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Demonstrating the value of IT governance
More than ever, the modern IT department needs to demonstrate its value to all stakeholders – proving IT’s place as an enabler, rather than a cost centre. A well-developed IT governance framework is one of the best tools to highlight this value. IT governance is about responsibilities and consequences.
Keeping control of the IT narrative
In a previous blog, we covered the importance of an IT governance framework. Controlling the discussion about IT within your organisation is a critical tool in maintaining an IT governance framework.
IT Governance in Local Government
Information technology systems are embedded at the core of every project and every aspect of work, from correspondence between parties, timeline constructions to even the community’s first point of access, the website. The numerous interconnected and networked features of IT systems, mean a small problem with one system may have an unforeseen complication with another, resulting in waves of disruption to future workflows.