This presentation describes the implementation of IT governance structure at an educational institution – what is IT governance? Where to start with IT Governance? What are some lessons learned?
The authors argue that organizations pay lip service to IT investment management – they insist on a business case for every IT investment but do not apply the rigor to what is contained in it. The resulting lack of IT investment results is both expected and can be fixed using a better business case framework developed by the authors.
Do IT Projects have momentum? Can we measure and track IT Project momentum? This article defines the concept of momentum within the context of IT projects, introduces a tool for mapping and analyzing momentum, presents a representative case example, and identifies the lessons gleaned from analyzing the momentum maps of 51 IT projects.
The pressure on CIOs to cut costs increases in economic downturns. The authors argue that a CIOs who focus on "holistic performance optimization" addressing all levers of performance produce higher long term business results and introduce a "performance radar" to put these levers in perspective.
This presentation discusses three lines of strengthening and defending IT governance using IT Risk Management framework, and CoBiT Framework. What are the three lines of defense? 1) an established risk and control environment 2) Strategic management, policy and procedure setting, functional oversight 3) independent challenge and assurance
This presentation discusses data analytics in the context of internal audit – what is data analytics? how to create sustainable data analytics? what are some advanced data analytics techniques such as visualization? what are the principles of data analytics?
The authors argue that modern project management that emphasizes a "control-oriented phased approach" has strayed far from the "roots" which lie in enabling “push the envelope” initiatives that combine trial and error and parallel trials thereby, failing to achieve strategic change and innovation