Alignment of IT initiatives with business strategy is important to satisfy the current drive to 'do more with less'. Efficient and effective communication between the business operations and IT sides of the organisation is crucial to align expectations on outcomes, and stay in synch on resources needs and investment priorities. A suitable IT Governance framework will ensure this.
With IT Governance practices in place business leadership can be confident that IT contributes effectively to organisational objectives, and IT leadership can be confident it will have access to the right resources to meet business expectations.
IT Governance defines the process that enables the right projects to be selected and reviewed to realise strategy and business goals, taking into account resource availability in people and finance. It is about optimising the investment in change initiatives and subordinating individual projects to the business strategy rather than departmental objectives or any other sub-optimised perspective.
IT Governance ensures your organisation is running the right IT initiatives and avoid multiple project muddle and project resource contention with day-to-day activity, that is so common in some organisations.
Project Management is not enough. Each enterprise needs overarching IT Governance practices to implement a strategic initiatives framework to secure optimal business value from IT.
Plutonic Zoo provides professional services to manage the creation of an IT Governance framework that is in line with your organisation's size, maturity, and business objectives.
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| What are we offering? |
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We complement your in-house expertise. We raise awareness through workshops, interviews, and facilitation of internal meetings.
Depending on the situation we perform some or all of the following:
Create or clarify the current IT strategy and ensure it is aligned with the current business strategy;
Create or clarify the current IT budget for business-as-usual (BAU) activities and one-off project activities;
Create or clarify current resource allocations for BAU and project activities;
Identify or confirm IT Governance stakeholders from across the organisation and define a representative IT Governance Team (ITGT);
Elicit an overview of current perceived issues with IT priorities and operations from discussions with each ITGT member;
Set-up an ITGT meeting structure and agenda to discuss and resolve:
- Charter of the ITGT;
- Current perceived issues and ITGT priorities;
- Current voids on professional IT Governance.
Create or clarify objective criteria to approve and prioritise project proposals;
Create or clarify a decision making process on future IT investments.
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What are the benefits? |
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Alignment between IT and business priorities;
Synchronised realistic expectations on both business side and IT side on what can be achieved with the resources allocated in people and finance;
Business ownership of IT investments, enabled by the IT department;
Transparency on decision making processes for IT priorities;
Structured ongoing communication between business operations and IT;
Control of change management.
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| How long will it take and what will it cost? |
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In an initial complimentary discussion about your situation and our approach, we will define with you the most suitable plan, and which services you want us to perform. We can then price our services upfront.
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| What do you do next? |
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contact Plutonic Zoo to explore what can be accomplished for your organisation, or submit your contact details through the boxes on top of this page and a representative from Plutonic Zoo will contact you to discuss your situation and needs..
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