IT Policies are organizational policies that communicate the company’s values, principles, strategies, and positions in relation to Information Technology.

IT Policies also establish specifications and/or procedures that deliver a trusted basis for common expectations about how work will be carried out, and enable compliance with the organization's policies, relevant laws and regulations.

What exactly is IT governance?
What influence does this have for you and your staff?

Put simply, IT governance is how the IT service provider of the organization supports the policies and procedures to achieve business goals.

This enables key stakeholders to assess organizational goals and set a path for monitoring of compliance, execution, and progress with a valid business reason. This is true for both the private and public sectors.

Effective IT governance makes it possible for management to have faith in the overall direction in which the business is headed.

Healthy limits are set, guidelines are put in place, and the separation of management and governance gives accountability. Quite often there is a sense that IT service providers, as well as their costs, do not possess the value which other organizational departments might have. Excellent governance ensures that IT service providers reduce the gap in the ability to comprehend what the business goals are and what sectors IT will be able to best help your organization's business goals.

IT governance is a continuing recurrence that should ask essential questions along the way. Following are several examples of questions:

Are we making the right decisions?
Is the whole process correct?
Have we maximized utilization of our resources?
Are we monitoring those resources?
What are the advantages?

Establishing an IT governance program may be challenging, which would require a lot of time and work. The simplest solution is to start with an industry framework which has already been created by experts in this area. These frameworks are currently being used by thousands of businesses to ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are fulfilled, risks are mitigated, IT and corporate strategies are aligned, and to gauge the return on the investment of the IT service provider.

IT policy and governance remains a broad topic, but maintaining alignment of IT plans that work closely with your organization and create an IT policy and governance strategy that fits your organization best.

• Generated process and policy documentation for the entire IT Service Lifecycle for a federal government agency’s CIO and IT Department.
• Designed and documented process to maintain asset and configuration management records for well over 6,500 serialized IT assets valued in excess of $47 million for a federal agency.
• Developed process for inventory and tracking of a federal government agency's Cisco Install Base of over 8,100-line items, at a value of over $14 million.
• Researched and documented recommendations to CIO or re-organization of a federal government agency’s IT Division.

• Generated process and policy documentation for the entire IT Service Lifecycle for a federal government agency’s CIO and IT Department.
• Designed and documented process to maintain asset and configuration management records for well over 6,500 serialized IT assets valued in excess of $47 million for a federal agency.
• Developed process for inventory and tracking of a federal government agency's Cisco Install Base of over 8,100-line items, at a value of over $14 million.
• Researched and documented recommendations to CIO or re-organization of a federal government agency’s IT Division.

• Generated process and policy documentation for the entire IT Service Lifecycle for a federal government agency’s CIO and IT Department.
• Designed and documented process to maintain asset and configuration management records for well over 6,500 serialized IT assets valued in excess of $47 million for a federal agency.
• Developed process for inventory and tracking of a federal government agency's Cisco Install Base of over 8,100-line items, at a value of over $14 million.
• Researched and documented recommendations to CIO or re-organization of a federal government agency’s IT Division.

• Generated process and policy documentation for the entire IT Service Lifecycle for a federal government agency’s CIO and IT Department.
• Designed and documented process to maintain asset and configuration management records for well over 6,500 serialized IT assets valued in excess of $47 million for a federal agency.
• Developed process for inventory and tracking of a federal government agency's Cisco Install Base of over 8,100-line items, at a value of over $14 million.
• Researched and documented recommendations to CIO or re-organization of a federal government agency’s IT Division.

• Generated process and policy documentation for the entire IT Service Lifecycle for a federal government agency’s CIO and IT Department.
• Designed and documented process to maintain asset and configuration management records for well over 6,500 serialized IT assets valued in excess of $47 million for a federal agency.
• Developed process for inventory and tracking of a federal government agency's Cisco Install Base of over 8,100-line items, at a value of over $14 million.
• Researched and documented recommendations to CIO or re-organization of a federal government agency’s IT Division.

• Generated process and policy documentation for the entire IT Service Lifecycle for a federal government agency’s CIO and IT Department.
• Designed and documented process to maintain asset and configuration management records for well over 6,500 serialized IT assets valued in excess of $47 million for a federal agency.
• Developed process for inventory and tracking of a federal government agency's Cisco Install Base of over 8,100-line items, at a value of over $14 million.
• Researched and documented recommendations to CIO or re-organization of a federal government agency’s IT Division.

• Generated process and policy documentation for the entire IT Service Lifecycle for a federal government agency’s CIO and IT Department.
• Designed and documented process to maintain asset and configuration management records for well over 6,500 serialized IT assets valued in excess of $47 million for a federal agency.
• Developed process for inventory and tracking of a federal government agency's Cisco Install Base of over 8,100-line items, at a value of over $14 million.
• Researched and documented recommendations to CIO or re-organization of a federal government agency’s IT Division.

• Generated process and policy documentation for the entire IT Service Lifecycle for a federal government agency’s CIO and IT Department.
• Designed and documented process to maintain asset and configuration management records for well over 6,500 serialized IT assets valued in excess of $47 million for a federal agency.
• Developed process for inventory and tracking of a federal government agency's Cisco Install Base of over 8,100-line items, at a value of over $14 million.
• Researched and documented recommendations to CIO or re-organization of a federal government agency’s IT Division.