IT Governance
IT governance ensures the effective and efficient use of IT in helping your organization achieve its goals. DIGIGUARD helps small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) optimize existing IT governance and frameworks and create, implement, manage and monitor new frameworks. We look at your technology as a whole and help you plan for the future. Our team of experts delivers improvements with measurable value. We help you implement processes that reduce data security risk, decrease data storage costs, and improve data organization and access. Here are some of the items we can examine:
- Network infrastructure
- Server infrastructure
- Technology management
- Data backup, storage costs and business continuity
- Network mapping
- New technology implementation
- Cloud services and cloud migration
- Business services, applications and outsourcing
- Disaster recovery and data risk
- Network and data security
Strategic Alignment
Your business is subject to regulations for the protection of data, security and financial accountability. A structured IT governance plan will help you meet these internal and external industry requirements. Our team will balance productivity with governance to achieve your company’s unique short- and long-term strategic objectives. IT investments require expert strategic planning to align goals with objectives. DIGIGUARD experts will help you make informed and aligned decisions for structured IT governance and transformational initiatives.
Value Delivery
IT initiatives have the potential to transform your business. These initiatives can be a considerable investment. DIGIGUARD can guide decision-making for these IT investments, or provide cost-effective alternatives to help you realize the full value and expected outcomes. We will help you examine implementation costs, maintenance costs, and spreading costs over business units, locations and functions. Our expert consultants will help your business determine if an IT investment:
- Satisfies regulatory requirement goals
- Provides reasonable ROI
- Compares insourcing and outsourcing alternatives
- Increases or decreases complexity
- Compares to industry standards and trends
- Changes data and cybersecurity risk
Risk Management
An IT governance framework is essential to manage and minimize risk within your organization. Our expert consultants can make you aware of the IT legal, regulatory and financial risks your organization faces. DIGIGUARD can recommend ways to manage and reduce risk and costs for secure data storage and handling. Our IT governance solutions can include:
- Disposing of redundant and old data to reduce storage costs and risk
- Secure storage solutions for sensitive, private or proprietary data
- Migrating data to cloud storage applications
- Speeding and simplifying access to data
- Improving data reporting and mining capabilities
- Protecting data during mergers, sales, acquisitions and employee offboarding
- Developing IT governance policy that minimizes disruption to business processes
Resource and Performance Management
IT governance helps businesses know if they are using IT assets efficiently and effectively. We will map your technology assets to demonstrate additional ways for you to use available resources. Here are some functions DIGIGUARD consultants can assist with:
- Measuring IT performance
- Customizing data strategy and data validation
- Improving data security
- Mapping asset use and lifecycle planning
- Improving data reliability and speed
- Solving complex database performance issues
- Communicating with external IT partners
IT Governance Planning
DIGIGUARD is your trusted advisor for custom IT governance and planning. Our services range from complete transformations to advisory services for projects and new technology evaluations. Contact DIGIGUARD today to discuss your IT governance project.