Optimize IT Governance for Dynamic Decision-Making

Optimize governance to align with how your organization functions.

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Blueprint Contents:

1. Optimize IT Governance for Dynamic Decision-Making Deck– Support effective decision-making by designing an IT governance structure that is aligned with how your organization functions.

Learn how to avoid bottlenecks and disengagement and design a governance structure that fits your organization’s needs and supports transparent and effective decision-making.

  • Optimize IT Governance for Dynamic Decision-Making – Phases 1-5

2. Governance Model Templates and Charters – A set of tools to customize and design your future governance model.

Leverage these tools as a starting point to redesign your IT governance to suit your organization’s needs.

  • IT Governance Model Templates
  • Sustainability Governance Template
  • Cross-Functional Sustainability Committee Charter
  • Data and Analytics Governance Committee Charter
  • IT PMO Committee Charter
  • IT Risk Committee Charter for Controlled Governance
  • IT Steering Committee Charter for Controlled Governance
  • Digital Customer Experience Committee Charter
  • Product Family Governance Committee Charter

3. Optimize IT Governance Implementation Tools – A set of tools to support the implementation and communication of your new governance framework.

Use these tools to support the implementation and communication of your new governance structure.

  • Business Case Intake Template
  • Optimize Governance Implementation Plan
  • Optimize Governance Executive Presentation
  • Optimize Governance Primer

4. Optimize IT Governance for Dynamic Decision-Making Workbook – Document decisions and activities conducted as part of this blueprint.

Use this workbook to document outcomes of activities and brainstorming sessions.

  • Optimize IT Governance for Dynamic Decision-Making Workbook
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Your Challenge

  • New agile operating models and work practices are changing how decisions are being made.
  • Customer expectations and demand for IT resources are increasing, but IT capacity is not.
  • Decision rights are not clearly defined, and accountability is not well understood.
  • It is difficult to allocate time and resources to build or execute governance effectively.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Transparency into who owns the decision and when it needs to be made and having the required information to support recommendations are essential to optimize governance and raise business performance.

Impact and Result

  • Use this blueprint to learn the essential elements of a strong governance structure and assess your current governance.
  • Learn how to transform your current governance to an optimal state by identifying your operating model, drafting your current decision hierarchy, and delving into additional factors that will impact governance scope.
  • Leverage our governance models and charter templates and design a governance framework that is suitable for your organization’s needs.
  • Discover how to support your governance framework through strong supporting processes and meeting execution.
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Member Testimonials

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.

9.5/10


Overall Impact

$123,406


Average $ Saved

31


Average Days Saved

Client

Experience

Impact

$ Saved

Days Saved

Government Employees Health Association Inc

Workshop

8/10

$68,000

29

Ability to focus and discuss the topics from different perspectives and get input and guidance from Executive Leadership. Facilitator was great t... Read More

Broome-Tioga Boces

Guided Implementation

9/10

N/A

10

Benoit and Brandon were great to work with. They were very flexible and adjusted to our needs throughout the process. Benoit brought a ton of inval... Read More

ANOH Gas Processing Company (AGPC)

Guided Implementation

10/10

$34,000

20

Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission

Workshop

10/10

$8,160

35

Chuck is a great facilitator. He is patient, thorough, and asks great questions. He was invested in getting us a good outcome to move forward with.

Broome-Tioga Boces

Guided Implementation

10/10

$34,000

20

Benoit was very adaptable and patient to meet our needs. He was able to pivot his strategy mid-course to get us to the place we wanted to be.

Intercity Transit

Guided Implementation

10/10

$34,000

110

The best part of the engagement was working with Ross Armstrong. Info Tech is lucky to have him. Having access to Ross would be one of the main rea... Read More

Pittsburgh Water

Guided Implementation

10/10

$13,600

5

Sidney was very organized on our calls and walked through a very logical process to develop a technology governance approach for Pittsburgh Water. ... Read More

Dakota County Government Center

Workshop

10/10

$408K

120

Best: Sumit is obviously very experienced and is a joy to work with. Worst: Well we did this one remotely, and it would have been fun to go ha... Read More

Geidea

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

20

I wanted to take a moment to share how incredibly pleased we are with Benoit’s work and the collaboration we've had. His expertise in IT governanc... Read More

Omya AG

Guided Implementation

8/10

$25,840

10

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Guided Implementation

10/10

$27,880

10

Allison has provided immediate value in our interactions, looking forward to more.

Oregon Military Department

Guided Implementation

9/10

$34,000

50

It was very beneficial to have experienced analysts available for consultation and guidance. Getting the insights from analyst experiences with ot... Read More

PGG Wrightson

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

Great overall discussion - Ross was great at tailoring the content to meet our specific context.

Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau, Inc.

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

I really enjoyed the insight and information about Info-Tech that Ross shared with me on this introductory call

College of New Caledonia

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

4

Multnomah County

Workshop

10/10

$2,720

7

Sumit was great and the best part of our experience. One of our challenges was getting people to show up to our virtual sessions.

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools

Workshop

9/10

N/A

N/A

While a four-day workshop is never fun or easy, Sumit did a great job of moving us through very complicated topics, soliciting input and feedback f... Read More

Yolo County

Workshop

9/10

$34,000

20

Worldnet International

Workshop

9/10

$68,500

20

The best parts were having the team engaged to think through framework, the assessment of what works and what needs to be fixed, ABC and PESTEL wer... Read More

Boise Cascade Company

Guided Implementation

10/10

$13,700

9

It was a real pleasure talking with Sidney. He was able to relate to my situation and was very engaging. Our backgrounds are similar and I apprec... Read More

Judiciary of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Guided Implementation

10/10

$2,740

120

There were no bad parts. The sessions helped helped me to understand areas I only had a concept about but didn't know how to achieve

Town of Andover, MA

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

N/A

The organization frameworks provide an extremely powerful way to objective communicate issues of organizational change and to allow the team to wor... Read More

Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission

Guided Implementation

10/10

$10,000

20

Valence has the depth and breadth knowledge about governance and his flexible approach was what we exactly needed in our situation

PyroGenesis Canada Inc

Guided Implementation

10/10

$10,000

10

Earlham College

Guided Implementation

8/10

$68,500

7

Expert guidance from an experienced analyst and usable templates/tools/deliverables.

City of Fairfax

Guided Implementation

10/10

$28,085

20

Oregon Parks And Recreation Department

Guided Implementation

10/10

$13,700

20

Good sounding board. Good give and take of ideas and approaches. Good insights to my industry and flexibility to adapt to nuances of our particul... Read More

Nebraska Public Power District

Workshop

8/10

$13,700

20

Best - Use of some examples of "what right looks like", good facilitation, worst is the realization that it is going to be a long journey to implem... Read More

State Development, Infrastructure and Planning

Guided Implementation

10/10

$21,385

5

University of Northern British Columbia

Guided Implementation

10/10

$6,000

10

Sidney has a wealth of knowledge.

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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

Guided Implementations

This guided implementation is an eight call advisory process.

Guided Implementation #1 - Understand core aspects of good governance
Call #1 - Discuss outcomes of effective IT governance.
Guided Implementation #2 - Assess the current state
Call #1 - Assess current maturity.
Guided Implementation #3 - Transition governance via a redesign
Call #1 - Discuss operating model and decision hierarchy within your organization.
Call #2 - Discuss governance scope and goals.
Guided Implementation #4 - Design future-state governance
Call #1 - Select your base model and optimize it to meet your governance needs.
Call #2 - Define mandate, responsibilities, and membership.
Guided Implementation #5 - Implement the governance framework
Call #1 - Map supporting processes.
Call #2 - Prioritize steps and dependencies and update implementation plan.