Compliance/Governance

IT Audits: Do we need them?

We have mature IT Management Processes and Controls in place. IT Audits are not for us. Is this true? Lets listen to Richard to learn about why Audits should be part of IT Strategy and what makes them a useful tool for managing IT better.

Managing Sarbanes Oxley Compliance

Sarbanes Oxley compliance is here to stay. What are organizations doing to not only get the first time certification but also monitor ongoing compliance status? How does IT help here?

Effective IT Audits and Auditors

How an IT audit is carried out and how we best leverage internal/external IT auditor(s) determines the fate of organizations facing compliance mandates today. An increasing number of compliance initiative failures and the reported inadequate empowerment of IT auditors suggests that there are issues that need to be addressed. Are there issues? And, if so, how do we address them?

Re/Designing An Effective IT Governance Model

While there's a lot of emphasis on IT Governance, organizations have been building silo IT governance mechanisms to solve problems in isolation. This is a reactionary and prevents IT from making a strategic impact. How about proactively designing IT governance around an organization's overall objectives and performance goals and continually redesigning whenever these objectives and goals change?

IT Governance also offers business survival!

IT leaders are used to thinking of IT governance as a way to optimize IT to create and deliver value. However, when economic times turn tough there is a tendency to see it as a cost and a budget item to be cut. What if that thinking is wrong? What if IT governance could help us to avoid costly mistakes and actually save money in the long run?