IT Governance, Risk & Compliance

IT Governance implementation is not only preparing IT policy, standard, and procedure. It is a series of processes and a journey to realise IT benefits in order to be aligned with organization’s vision and mission. Starting with IT governance maturity assessment, execute recommendation, consultancy, evaluation, and improvement. Mitigation of Risk and Compliance with regulation or standard is a must for IT organization. While information has long been appreciated as a valuable and important asset, implementation of Information security can protect your business and customer.

How can IT fulfil customer expectation without becoming a “burden” to business, how can IT be the pioneer within company’s transformation in digital era, and how can IT possess a clear, precise, and measureable program plan? All these questions come to one solution, IT Master Plan. A robust and mature IT Master Plan shall be implemented and evaluated periodically.

Acquisition, merger, and establishment of holding company are corporate acts that need a thorough review involving the whole entity and business process. IT, as one of the entity, holds a crucial and important role. Organization needs to have a reliable and well managed IT Enterprise Architecture. IT Enterprise Architecture will guide organization in forming a unified IT environment that is aligned with business goals and able to response to future disruption.

When a disaster strikes a business or a key employee departs, the organization needs to stay on course and stabilize its business. Business continuity shall be managed by organization in order to deal with major disruptions or incidents. Organizations with a well implemented BCM are protected and assured of its readiness in facing future threats and disruptions. BCM integrates with every process, as it is a holistic management process.

Evaluate IT process, control, and operation compared to standards and ensure alignment with business goals will help organization to have control and assurance of IT systems and management. Organizations that conduct IT Audit periodically are most likely to have their IT in control and brings benefits to business.

IT, akin with others, also has risk that is considered as business risk. Organization should begin to consider IT risk as it consists of IT-related events that could potentially impact the business. In order to identify threat and even opportunity, organization needs to conduct an IT Risk Assessment. Optimize your IT organization to support business and achieve goals.