Structured Decision Making:Just enough governance

What is it?

Governance is about decision making, and ESA governance is about making enterprise decisions about technology, business priorities, information and data, and delivery mechanisms like cloud computing.  The art of governance lies within doing "just enough" to support the organization without stifling the decisions that the program areas need to make. ESA governance needs to be federated in that there is a clear line on what an EA organization should and should not be doing.

Why do you do it?

You need an independent advisor and/or a framework to facilitate governance decisions.

When you don't know how to make technology decisions, or aren't sure if the decisions being made are the right ones.

What do you get?

Every organization is unique in terms of culture and process experience.  We will typically evaluate an organization’s current environment based on factors such as current decision-making processes, charters and stakeholders, example decisions, communications mechanisms, strategic priorities, hardware and software vendor footprint, current IT project portfolio.  We create, evaluate and adjust charters to better suit the needed decision model.  We provide an iterative, step-by-step plan to transforming your decision-making process to a nimble and streamlined governing body that optimizes resources and takes advantage of asynchronous/offline interactions.

One area that our customers often need help with is governance related to making technical / product decisions.  Our governance models are tailored to your needs and typically includes market analysis, facilitation of prototypes with vendors, requests for information, definition of cost models and selection of products.  We also interact with our acquisition practitioners to ensure that we are providing you the right type of evaluation criteria.