Governance
IT Solutions projects, programmes, and organisations themselves, have a greater chance of success if they are subject to appropriate controls.
Governance is a system of internal control to minimise corporate risk in IT projects and programmes. It is the functions, processes and procedures that determine how interdependencies will be managed and controlled.
Parity can deliver expert Governance directly to programmes and projects, or can work with clients to advise them or develop appropriate programme and project governance within the organisation itself.
Clients come to Parity as they seek to ensure that their investment in IT will ultimately meet the aims of the business. Importantly, and indicative of our pragmatic flexibility, we can provide this advice at any point throughout the business lifecycle.
Parity can also deliver board-level advice so as to ensure that the organisation’s IT function is strategically aligned with business objectives. We confirm that risk and issue management, along with its reporting, is in place and working as it should.
Parity’s approach to IT governance can employ standard industry methods (such as CoBIT, ITIL, and CMMI), or we can tailor the approach to accommodate any proprietary corporate control and reporting standards that may already exist.
Our Governance practice is comprehensive, considering Regulatory Compliance, Information Security, IT Projects, Service Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, and Risk Management.
Examples of this practice offering includes:
· advice regarding and ensuing development of IT programme governance that establish and bed down appropriate checks and balances
· evaluation of existing governance arrangements and a full report on their appropriateness and effectiveness
· development and implementation of performance measures in order to confirm that governance is itself operating adequately
· design and implementation of information security and business continuity/disaster recovery arrangements
· production of a risk management strategy for an organisation and its projects
