IT Strategy and Governance

Who controls your business?
You manage your people, money, stock and customer relationships, but what about the technologies that you use to manage this? Your IT systems could be controlling your financial information, your customer and supplier orders, your internal operations and even how your customers perceive your business via a web page. IT is all pervasive, it controls almost every single aspect of your business, but who controls the IT? Is it Steve the IT guy who comes in once a month to fix the odd PC and whom you never see again until there is a problem? Is it the IT manager you hired who has little control and no real knowledge of how your business really works? Many companies are waking up to the fact that how they govern their IT can have serious repercussions on their overall business performance and even survival.

What exactly is IT governance?
IT governance draws from lessons learnt from good financial and corporate governance. It is not about IT management that is, what decisions should be made, but more about who makes the decisions and who is ultimately responsible for them. Good IT governance establishes clear processes and policies for all IT decisions.

How does good governance help companies?
In a lot of companies IT strategy and governance is never even considered. IT decisions are ad-hoc and are made by a multitude of people within an organisation with little or no regard to the company as a whole. At best this produces systems that are adequate to the company’s goals. At worst it can produce systems that prevent or defeat the company’s overall strategic intentions. Many studies have shown that the best performing companies proactively seek value from their IT by actively pursuing good IT governance practices.

Contact Tegeus to see how we can help get you get the most out of your IT investment and start making IT work for your business.

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