IT Governance continues to feature highly on the agenda within many organisations as Corporate Governance increasingly realises that IT touches every area of the organisation and contributes as an essential enabler of future business opportunities. Due to lack of IT Governance practices, many companies face various challenges that result in delays, cost overruns and a lack of accountability.

Various IT Governance definitions exist within the industry but all share the same common goal of establishing a structure of relationships and processes to ensure:

• IT aligns with the business strategy
• IT risks and opportunities are managed
• IT delivers value for money

The required IT Governance will depend on the company type, culture, and on the drivers for governance. Although simply definable at high level, the practicalities of implementing IT Governance are broad and encompass many disciplines within the organisation including IT Strategy, Risk Management, IT Service Management and Compliance Management to name but a few. Understandably this presents a significant challenge for companies seeking to identify a starting point for their IT Governance initiative.

Darrell Hill IT Governance Consultants are CGEIT certified and offer a number of services to help you achieve compliance with your IT Governance requirements; these include audits, reviews, gap analysis and consultancy services. Our intervention and introduction of best practice IT governance will provide your organisation an opportunity to:

• Find a more effective ways to modernize and transform your IT operations
• Break down cultural barriers to achieve strong business and IT alignment.
• Adopt the industry’s best practices and give your company an orderly, enterprise approach to key IT decisions.
• Determine the role of IT in the firm
• Identify the IT governance decisions you can make immediately
• Identify the aspects of good and bad IT governance in your current approach
• Identify recent failures and successes of IT governance
• Summarize your position in the IT governance quality matrix
• Review your IT governance organization and processes against a best practice guideline
• Identify your case for action for stronger IT governance and needed changes
• Develop a roadmap and action plan for IT governance