IT Risk Management & Governance

• Are your business strategies and processes really driving your IT requirements?
• Is your IT really suitable for your business?
• Do you know the risks to your business from your IT

• Infrastructure and key business applications
  • Networking, Communications, Workstations, Servers & Key business applications
• IT Operations and resources
  • Organisation, skills, availability, operations and locations
• IT Governance & risk management
  • IT Service management (Change management, Release management, Capacity management, Availability management, Continuity management, Application management, Infrastructure management, Incident management, Problem management, Service desk)
  • Project management
  • Development Management (Analysis, Design, Development, Test, Deployment)
• IT Strategy & significant projects
  • IT Finance (CAPEX, OPEX), IT Strategy, IT Architecture, IT Methodologies, IT Projects

• IT systems should underpin the operational requirements of the business.
• It should be fit for purpose, from both a technical and a management information perspective.
• Our team of IT risk management and governance specialists take the jargon out of IT, help determine and select the most appropriate systems, and leverage your current IT to secure optimal benefit for the business and your management team, at both strategic and operational level.

• IT will not run reliably without significant investment
• IT will not scale significantly without significant investment
• IT will not support the new business model without significant investment

Key considerations

• Ease of IT separation
• Ownership of IT Infrastructure, Applications, Data and Service agreements
• Suitability of IT with existing and new business process operation model
• Synergy of IT operations and systems
• Availability and suitability of resources and suppliers to manage the transition and support the new IT operation
• IT governance during and post transition
• Continued or improved stability of IT
• Continued or improved responsiveness to change requests

• IT Strategy / strategy review
• Specification of requirements / Architecture design & review
• IT solutions procurement RFI/RFP/ITT
• Relocations and out-sourcing
• IT recruitment / IT staff evaluation / IT organisation structure
• Implementation, carve-out and integration project management
• Project/Programme assurance
• (SLA) Service Level Agreement
• (BCP) Business Contingency Planning
• (TSA) Transition Services Agreement and transition planning
• (PMO) Project Management Office implementation (PRINCE2)
• (ITIL) IT Infrastructure Library service management implementation
• (ERP) Enterprise Resource Planning integration