SEVEN STEPS TO HEALTHY IT

Reworking your company’s tactics towards IT can be simplified and clarified by taking Compushare’s seven steps toward healthy IT performance planning.

1. Transform Your Thinking – Start thinking like a true Chief Information Officer (CIO) by planning, organizing, acquiring, implementing, delivering, supporting, monitoring and evaluating technology, resources and processes, all within COBIT standards.
2. Trust But Verify Policy – Establishing a common language platform, this step helps the communication and collaboration between IT leadership and Executive leadership. Assuming there’s a gap in knowledge and trust, meeting in the middle allows both sides to share in building plans and assuring follow-through.
3. Set Bank Strategy – Better business planning means aligning your IT Enterprise with your organizational goals from the very start, a challenging exercise without the help of Compushare.
4. Put your IT efforts into “Entities”- A simple but powerful organizational tool, these mini business plans align strategic plans with the resources, processes, capital, software and people available to meet each IT Entity or goal.
5. Design the IT Performance Plan – A cohesive consolidation of all IT Entities into one easily accessed and reviewable document. The direct link to achieving Technology ROI and efficiency over a three-year, board reviewed and adopted process.
6. Implement IT Performance Plan – With the structure for performance in place, management now steps back to let the technologists execute. This stage of plan employment commonly occurs over a two to three year period.
7. Monitor & Oversight  - Reports and analyses on plan progress that are delivered to executive management, board sub committees and the full board of directors on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

Without the help of Compushare, a partner experienced in transformative IT thinking, even getting to step 1 is, for most organizations, a near impossibility.