ISACA Management Forums

Brian Barnier, CGEIT
Principal
ValueBridge Advisors

Brian Barnier is a practitioner, teacher, writer and researcher in IT-business management, with emphasis on governance, risk and return, and outcomes achievement. In this role, he assists external clients improve alignment between business strategy and model, IT goals and objectives, and business outcomes. To help senior leaders engage their organizations, Brian stresses the need for a more risk-aware approach to IT investment priorities that is responsive to changing business needs.

Brian serves on the COBIT Risk Task Force and writes articles for various ISACA publications.

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Anil Jogani, CISA, CGEIT
Director
Milan Solutions Limited

Anil Jogani has over 25 years of global experience in IT governance and management, internal controls and audit, corporate finance and general management. Anil runs an IT strategy practice in the United Kingdom and advises companies on governance, process improvement and strategic development. He is a director and co-founder of an IT company that specializes in outsourcing, programme management and executive search. Anil has served as the founding President of the ISACA Bangalore Chapter and is currently a member of the ISACA IT Governance Committee.

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Jeffrey L. Roth, CISA, CGEIT
Director, Technology Risk Management Services
RSM McGladrey

Jeff Roth is a director with RSM McGladrey’s Technology Risk Management Services. With over 22 years internal audit experience, his current focus is on Florida County, Local, and School District IT critical infrastructure protection. Jeff was the audit manager for the NASA Space Shuttle prime contractor, and received the John Kuyers Best Speaker/Conference Contributor Award for 2006 for major contributions in IT Audit and Security and outstanding speaking achievements. Jeff presently serves on the CGEIT Certification Board. He was a member of the ISACA task force that created the CGEIT designation program and a long standing member of the ISACA Conferences & Education Board.

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Robert E. Stroud, CGEIT
Vice President Service Management
Service Management and Governance Evangelist
CA, Inc.

Robert Stroud is a 25 year IT veteran and author holding the position of Director of Strategy for the Business Service Optimization business unit at Computer Associates (CA). Robert brings significant practical industry experience to role including the implementation of best practices and writing of best practices to his role in which he is dedicated to the continuing development of industry best practices including the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and the Control Objectives for Information Related Technology (COBIT). Robert is a current member of ISACA’s Board of Directors, serves as chairman of the COBIT Steering Committee, and sits on the ISACA IT Governance Committee.

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The first session of the IT Governance Forum begins with an open discussion on the definition of IT governance. Inspired by ITGI’s definition as well as the development of ISO 38500 on this subject, this ice-breaker will help clarify concepts and establish a lexicon to be used throughout the sessions of the forum. Conversations from this session will be included in a greater discussion to enhance and expand ISACA’s industry glossary. The session continues with a discussion of frameworks, models and standards that are a source of good practices, guides to map the journey, and ways to identify pitfalls. The challenge is to avoid confusion and to set the right context in which the relevant framework/resource is to be utilized. Through briefings, group discussion and assignments, participants will gain a better understanding of relevant frameworks and other resources in IT governance that can provide guidance in mapping a sensible process-improvement program journey. Participants will examine the differences between various frameworks, models and standards, and how some of these frameworks can be combined and used in a “best of breed” fashion for optimum results.

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The second session of the IT Governance Forum focuses on two top C-level concerns introduced in the first session. Strategic alignment of the automated business processes and the respective IT infrastructure/resources with both business goals and stakeholder requirements is critical for enterprise success. Value delivery is a critical consideration for boards of directors and executive management whose members frequently ask, “What value are we getting from current and planned investments in IT-enabled change?”

The session introduces and discusses proven critical IT governance processes needed to develop and implement an integrated IT governance strategy that can be scaled to fit both small and large organizational environments. It examines organizational leadership and enterprise architecture for strategy and execution and organizational resiliency and capacity for change. The session continues by exploring the value dimension of IT governance. It discusses the need for active value management and measurement and includes elements of a business case to seek sponsorship for an improvement program in this area. The session examines The Val IT Framework 2.0 as well as other models and frameworks within the value delivery area. Ultimately, the session seeks to explore whether value delivery might well be the prime IT GRC goal—and possibly the enterprise goal—while being at the apex of all IT governance domains.

• Describe IT governance strategy development processes
• Explain strategic alignment models and techniques
• Discuss portfolio management concepts to ensure strategic alignment, reduce risks and optimize value
• Evaluate business cases for strategic alignment and value management
• Use the six steps to getting started on value management

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Organizations are pressed to ensure more effectively that the correct IT assets and human resources are available to meet both strategic and operational objectives. Moreover stakeholders expect management teams to establish outcome and performance measures—supported by metrics—and targets that assess progress toward the achievement of enterprise and IT objectives and the business strategy. The third session of the IT Governance Forum builds upon top C-level concerns introduced in the first session and clarified in the second session. It examines proven resource management and performance management processes needed to enable management to more effectively and efficiently ensure:

• Integration of resource identification, classification, allocation and periodic evaluation processes into the business’s strategic and tactical planning and operations.
• IT assets are managed and protected through their economic life cycle and are aligned with current and long-term business operations requirements to support cost-effective achievement of business objectives.
• Establishment of outcome and performance measures—supported by metrics—and targets that assess progress toward the achievement of enterprise and IT objectives and the business strategy.
• Use continuous performance measurement to identify, prioritize, initiate and manage improvement initiatives and/or appropriate management action.

Through panel member, case studies and attendee discussion, this session identifies practical solutions that can be employed to meet these challenges.

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The final session of the IT Governance Forum builds on the frameworks and models introduced in the first session as well as the four focus areas discussed in the second and third sessions. It begins with a review of the tools, methodologies and approaches to implement governance outlined in guides, publications and research initiatives from ISACA and the IT Governance Institute; including IT Governance Implementation Guide: Using COBIT and Val IT, 2nd Edition. The session continues with a few war stories from the “front lines”. It explores challenges to realizing the full business benefits through the effective governance of enterprise IT. More than just techniques, the session examines leadership and organizational structure and issues to help the enterprise move further down the path to greater value from IT through improved decision making.

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