Mobily IT Governance Implementation Road map (2012 - 2013)
Business needs
Mobily management mandated to build IT governance implementation road map to ensure having governance structure implemented to overcome major issues on the governance of IT to ensure meeting the following management mandates
Mobily management mandated to build IT governance implementation road map to ensure having governance structure implemented to overcome major issues on the governance of IT to ensure meeting the following management mandates
- IT alignment with the business strategy
- Justifying IT investments and spending based on its contributions to the business
- Measurement of IT performance, execution and management efficiency
- Promoting IT delivery efforts
- Promoting IT flexibility and innovation
- Promoting IT added values to business
- IT staffing challenges and needs
- right skills and competencies
- Ranking IT management and operations compare to best practices
- Forcing controls and documentation over what is being instituted in IT
- Formation of IT Strategy and having Board review and approval for it
- Formation of risks management policy, assessment and mitigation practice
- Integration with BC&RM
The Solution
- Perform Governance Assessment for current policies, processes and standards
- Define and develop the required IT governance processes and templates
- Build the required governance structures
- Start with governance processes and structures (Quick Wins) that are already implemented or need minimum effort to tune for governance implementation Processes
- Prepare implementation plan based on phased approach and define required Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Get management sponsorship and authorization for the governance implementation plan
- Start governance implementation plan execution
- Periodically communicate status reports and perform audits to ensure adherence to governance implementation plan and measure the benefits
Benefits and Added Value
- Align IT investments and priorities more closely internally in IT & with the business
- Manage, evaluate, prioritize, fund, measure and monitor requests for IT services and the resulting work and deliverable, in a more consistent and repeatable manner that optimize returns to the business
- Reasonable utilization of resources and assets
- Establish and clarifies accountability and decision rights (clearly defines roles and authority)
- Ensures that IT delivers on its commitments via validating the plans and budgets.
- Manages risks, change and contingencies proactively
- Improve IT organizational performance, compliance, maturity and staff development