IT Governance – Solutions Enabler
Governance, one of those words that when you say it as a CIO to a front line business manager, you hear “enable” and they hear “molasses”. Why is that? Why are we in IT thinking and saying one thing, and the business is hearing something else? It all comes down to results. The front line businesses and their management are concerned primarily with service delivery. We in IT are seen sometimes as getting in the way, and not making a way. Time for that to change……. Are you ready ?
Many IT organizations and individuals have been developing and implementing, upgrading and enhancing their structured approach to managing projects, and portfolios. There has been a huge focus on this in the private and public sector over the past 15-20 years. In many organizations this structured approach to delivery has dramatically increased the ability to deliver more solutions and systems. To many this is commonly known as Project Management, PMI, IT PMO. Project management is not only found in the IT sector, the disciplines are applied to the building and construction sector, aerospace and defense, oil and gas, the list is endless.
Project management is one aspect of IT Governance, an important aspect, the one that usually gets most of the attention. Projects consume resources (people and money), they are implemented to meet one or more business needs and there is usually some element of time, meaning a deadline that drives a project. What about the rest of the operation. Is it only the projects that are big, the ones with large capital budgets that get completed. What about all of the other business needs, the ones that can be solved by creating a spreadsheet, linking a couple of databases, what about that side of the business. Many IT organizations ignore the so called “Cottage IT” groups in their company, hoping that they would just fade off into the distance, or get swallowed up by some large central IT restructuring project.
Not every IT project comes with a 100 page charter a 50 person project team and a $1million budget.
LETS GET REAL, these business needs are not going away, and each new day, young IT savvy resources are entering the workforce. You know these are the people who have ONLY KNOWN COMPUTERS. I should
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