Training Duration:

3 days

Training Delivery Method:

On-site, instructor-led course; or online, instructor-led course

Prerequisites:

Senior IT management, management consultants, big 4 senior managers/partners, experienced IT control or audit or security professionals, anybody involved in organizational IT governance

What Problem Does This Training Help Solve?

Provides training to help attendees differentiate between IT governance and IT management, and help set up IT governance framework including IT alignment, value delivery, risk management, performance management, and resource utilization

Who Should Attend?

Corporate and IT management interested in learning the “what” and “how to” of IT governance.IT auditors who would like to learn how to audit IT governance, management consultants and partners of big 4s (and big 8s) who have to provide governance-related services to senior client management, senior IT management who are responsible for understanding theory and implementation of IT governance, CIOs (value delivery), IT Risk management, CISOs, professionals responsible for governance performance measurement (BSC implementation)

Course Material:

Content-rich manual/course handouts consisting of about 300 foils

Course Syllabus:

IT governance is to a country’s constitution what management is to the country’s laws. Corporate governance, IT governance, and IT security governance are responsibilities of the board or the senior management. This seminar will address key knowledge areas related to IT governance domains: IT governance framework, IT/business strategy alignment, IT value delivery, risk management, resource management and performance measurement. Various aspects of COBIT, as they relate to IT governance, will also be discussed.

Topics to be covered:

•Governance vs. Management

•IT governance framework

•IT alignment with business requirements

•IT value delivery

•IT risk management

•IT performance measurement

•IT balanced score card

•IT resource management

•Board’s oversight committees

•IT strategy committee

•IT steering committee

•Board’s business continuity oversight

•Auditing IT governance

•Measuring maturity of IT governance on a CMM scale