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CCH Sword is a risk management solution that records risks, controls, and responsibilities throughout an organisation. It provides users with repositories of information about activities and processes within the organisation, the risks associated with them, and the steps that can be taken to mitigate these risks. Many risks are associated with compliance, and organisations often do not understand which regulations they need to comply with or what their duties are in order to comply. Organisations often u…
Technology Audits - published 28/01/2010 - Sue Clarke
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Enterprise IT Management (EITM) is a Web-based Programme Management solution from Sterling Key for the management of IT activities and resources where project-based management is needed for increased visibility and control. This fills the gap that exists between day-to-day IT operations activities and enterprise-level projects, which are often handled by corporate portfolio management tools. EITM integrates with an organisation’s Service or Help Desk tool to provide a joined-up approach to managing IT pr…
Technology Audits - published 27/01/2010 - Balachandar Ganesh, Stephen Mann
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Operational risk has been defined as the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems, or from external events. The entire range of processes and activities of an enterprise and its IT organisation, from strategic to operational management, face risks. While it is impractical to think of completely eliminating risks faced by the organisation, however carefully planned or managed, it is certainly possible to reduce risk to a level that can be borne by the organi
OpinionWire Articles - published 16/11/2009 - Sue Clarke
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Energy efficiency and the need for effective carbon accounting have become, or are becoming, significant issues for most enterprises, with the challenges in meeting Corporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility (CSER) requirements pushing the need for a more proactive IT response centre stage in the support of organisation-wide activity. Senior business managers are realising that there is a significant gap between corporate Green (or sustainability) goals and the organisation’s ability to attain t…
Technology Audits - published 22/09/2009 - Stephen Mann
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Deploying measurement capability within the organisation enables the IT manager to gain a better understanding of relevant sustainability issues. There are many practical actions that organisations can take to reduce waste and promote environmentally-friendly computer usage, but the first thing an IT organisation should do is benchmark resource usage. From then on, management can make a point of monitoring ongoing consumption levels once initiatives have been instigated.
OpinionWire Articles - published 18/09/2009 - Mark Blowers
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Unlicensed software continues to be a significant problem across the globe, amply demonstrated by the recent news of four UK-based companies paying out an overall settlement exceeding UK£50,000 to “reflect unlicensed use” of various software products and to purchase appropriate licences for use going forwards. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) took action against these four manufacturing companies where it was found that there was a shortfall between the software on the company’s computers and the lic…
OpinionWire Articles - published 27/08/2009 - Maxine Holt
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According to WMUR.com, the US news and TV site, last week a US man’s debit card was charged US$23 quadrillion. His bank statement suggested that he had recently spent US$23,148,855,308,184,500 at a petrol station. The man had been left wondering if he had inadvertently bought the whole of Europe at the same time as filling his tank! Although this utterly ridiculous mistake was swiftly cleared by the bank and the card company, a string of other data management issues have left prominent organisations with…
OpinionWire Articles - published 24/07/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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The UK Government has created the Greening Government ICT Strategy, developed by the UK Government Green ICT Delivery Unit of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Council. In a report produced by Global Action Plan and commissioned by Cisco, the research identified that 60% of public sector IT managers were unaware of the Government’s greening ICT strategy, with 41% of national government respondents ignorant of the strategy even though it encompasses their area of responsibility.
OpinionWire Articles - published 16/07/2009 - Mark Blowers
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Corporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility (CSER) has become, or is becoming, a significant issue for most medium- to large-sized organisations. The business drivers for ‘acting more responsibly’ are increasing every day – energy prices are rising, regulatory pressures are multiplying, stakeholders are demanding that enterprises are more socially aware, and the popularity of ethical brands is growing.
OpinionWire Articles - published 18/06/2009 - Stephen Mann
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With reduced IT budgets being a common challenge this year, and perhaps for several to come, there are unwelcome pressures to make cutbacks in areas where good progress has been made in the past. After decades of largely uninterrupted growth and sustained investment in IT, managing this conflict will be a key challenge, affecting fundamentally which organisations come out of the current downturn strongly, and which look back on a period of decline and setback. One such area of capability is the perceived…
OpinionWire Articles - published 11/06/2009 - Alan Rodger
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As IT functions are increasingly expected to ‘deliver more with less’, portfolio management tools and techniques are required to reconcile corporate strategy and scarce IT resources, and facilitate better decision-making across the enterprise.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/04/2009 - Stephen Mann
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CA provides CA Governance, Risk and Compliance Manager (GRC Manager), an end-to-end Governance, Risk, and Compliance solution that enables organisations to manage multiple regulatory requirements as well as enterprise risk. The solution focuses primarily on the technical and procedural controls that the IT organisation can undertake in support of enterprise-level regulatory requirements. Large, globally-distributed organisations need to comply with multiple regulations. Without a unified view of risks, t…
Technology Audits - published 21/04/2009 - Sue Clarke
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The G20 Summit at the beginning of April was widely judged to have made significant achievements, including making headway towards addressing the unprecedented global-level economic situation. As well as the summit’s declarations of action required at macro-economic level, it agreed that risk should be addressed much more satisfactorily in the future.
OpinionWire Articles - published 09/04/2009 - Alan Rodger
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In the case of many organisations it would be difficult, metaphorically, to put a sheet of paper between IT and business processes.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 17/03/2009 - Alan Rodger
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As the discipline of IT Governance has matured over the past five years, much of the effort has been focused within the IT department itself.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 17/03/2009 - Tim Jennings
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There are different opinions on the best way to control IT cost. Some say outsource what others can demonstrate they do better, and streamline and automate processes. Others advise standardisation on fewer platforms and technologies, along with the implementation of better IT management tools. All of these measures have the potential for IT costs savings; however, the challenge faced by IT management is to choose the most appropriate ones for their organisation.
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 06/03/2009 - Mark Blowers, Stephen Mann, Tim Jennings
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An organisation’s software licences, and their use of software products, are increasingly subject to audit by major software vendors and industry watchdogs. At the same time, IT Functions are tasked with ‘doing more with less’ and it is therefore imperative that organisations not only meet the challenges of licence compliance but also provide cost-effective stewardship of the software licence lifecycle. ManageSoft Corporation’s Enterprise Compliance Manager (ECM) is a Software Asset Management (SAM) and …
Technology Audits - published 18/02/2009 - Stephen Mann
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Amidst a continuing flow of legislation and regulation, the effectiveness of compliance initiatives in many organisations is being called into question, whilst the costs of supporting these efforts threaten to rise sharply. The problem is exacerbated by a number of factors: firstly, successive external mandates have often been tackled individually, with responsibility allocated to different areas of the business. This has resulted in a highly siloed environment, with individual business controls overlapp…
TECHwatch Articles - published 07/01/2009 - Tim Jennings
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If the headlines are to be believed we are into recession, with even the suggestion of a depression skulking on the horizon.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/11/2008 - Michael Azoff
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