IT Governance

With IT now a regular agenda item for over 60% of Corporate Boards - and with the emergence of IT Governance Board Committees, CIO’s have an unavoidable obligation to deliver on the core facets of IT Governance.

IT Strategic Alignment
The Strategic Alignment of IT with the business is at the heart of effective IT Governance. While an IT Strategy is often considered the principal artefact of IT Strategic Alignment, it is the processes that substantiate and then action the strategy that generates the latent value of true business and IT alignment.

The Marlo Group will work with CIOs and Heads of Technology to fashion and action a strategy that has resonance from the Board to the business units.

IT Value Delivery
The performance of IT and the value that IT brings to the business is often subjective. Without value assessment and measurement models agreed with the business there can be no objective assessment either of the performance of current systems and services or the potential value creation of any given IT investment.

The Marlo Group will assist you to test and measure IT maturity and effectiveness and build processes for ensuring investment is aligned for maximum value creation.

Risk Management
Enterprises today have total dependence on IT infrastructure and the integrity of information and systems. Failure to manage risk can result in compliance failure, core production breakdowns and the destruction of brand.

The Marlo Group will analyse key risks and establish an appropriate mitigation strategy.

IT Resource Management
IT effectiveness is ultimately dependent upon the ability of a corporation to optimise IT investment and the use and allocation of IT resources including staff, service providers, infrastructure, systems and information.

The Marlo Group will assist you to benchmark your resource utilisation and effectiveness and establish processes to optimise ongoing resource investment and management.

Performance Management
The definition of effectiveness and efficiency and value creation for an IT organisation today will vary dramatically by stakeholder and will incorporate a variety of both tangible and intangible measures. Agreeing a Balanced Score Card with the Board and the business is critical to establish a valid measure of IT effectiveness.

The Marlo Group will assist you to define goals and measurements that reflect both to IT and the business the overall effectiveness of IT and the tangible and intangible value that IT brings to the business.