IT Governance and its importance to the business
Overview
This one day workshop enables delegates to understand the importance of IT governance. It explains why IT should be recognised as an integral part of the business and outlines how this can be achieved in practice.
You will learn about the range of activities that fall under IT governance and how good practice suggests they be implemented to enable the business to effectively direct, manage and monitor its IT department to maximise value and minimise risk.
Who Should Attend?
Executives, senior management, internal auditors and Heads of IT who would like to gain an understanding of how good practice IT governance can help make sure you are maximising the effectiveness of IT.
Benefits To You & Your Organisation
- Understand the elements of the IT governance framework and your role in achieving success
- Understand the implications of poor IT governance
- Support you in aligning activities of your IT department with the needs of the business
- Understand the function and set-up of an effective IT steering committee
- Understand how IT risks should be identified and managed
- Making sure that your limited IT resource is focussed on business priorities
- Explain how to establish performance measures to quantify what IT is doing
- How to make sure that you are getting value for money from IT, both internally and from third parties
- Give you an understanding of the global standards and guidance around IT governance
- Understand how to conduct a review of IT governance as part of your annual audit of corporate governance