If you are looking at performing an IT governance audit you are probably at one of two points in your business’s maturity.

• Your a small-medium organisation which is  forward looking and want to ensure your business has controls in place to grow.
• Your a medium-large organisation having issues with governance and need to sort out the concerns to efficiently deliver business aligned IT outcomes.

Of the many frameworks created to improve business use of IT, the one most focused on both the governance of IT and business to IT alignment is COBIT.

COBIT takes a process centric approach in which “control objectives” represent requirements which can be used to ensure governance objectives are being considered.

The key to successful governance is ensuring it’s appropriate for you business.

I.e. that the key information for making decisions, and checking your are on track is monitored and available.

Totem will work with you to create an approach suitable for your business which could include.

The enhanced COBIT audit customised to your business including

• A communications plan
• A set of workshops
• Detailed reports and recommendations.

Following the audit we recommend the creation of a target governance model, the governance strategy and the roadmap containing a set of focused time bound activities.