Governance of IT

6 BENEFITS OF GOOD IT GOVERNANCE

Organisations working from the 38500 six principles of best practice IT governance, and using a tried and tested decision-making model to evaluate business cases and to guide procurement decisions, can expect to see the following benefits:

• cost reduction;
• performance improvement;
• ability to react quickly to market changes;
• increased customer satisfaction;
• more sustainable practices;
• increased revenue per dollar cost;
• general workplace benefits for the board, management and staff.

COST REDUCTION

Cost reduction does not happen overnight. Introducing IT governance has a cost attached. However, over the course of 18 months to two years, you would expect to be able to deliver IT-enabled services at lower cost. Several ...