Program and Product Management

IT Strategy and IT Governance

Set direction for IT functions. Maximize your value. Ensure IT objectives are aligned with your business strategies.

New and emerging technologies, customer facing relationships, predictive analytics, and security are just some of the day-to-day challenges that companies face. In order to address all these challenges, business and IT have to evolve together and share operating models.

Bridging Business and Technology for Effective IT Strategies

An IT strategy sets direction for IT functions and helps to maximize value from IT investments and expenditures while minimizing ongoing support costs. Because Kenway specializes in bridging the gap between business and technology organizations, we are uniquely positioned to guide them through the challenges of crafting an impactful IT strategy, which requires an understanding of both technology and business objectives and landscapes.

Benefits of Our Approach

We partner with you to establish a robust governance framework that aligns IT investments with corporate objectives, ensuring clear decision-making processes and delivering measurable outcomes that maximize ROI and drive business value.

Strategic Alignment

IT initiatives are assessed and aligned with business goals through comprehensive analysis and strategic mapping. Clear IT principles are established to drive value-based decision making, creating a foundation for sustainable growth and innovation.

Governance Structure

We augment your capabilities by implementing a structured governance approach that clearly defines decision rights and accountability. We establish clear pathways for technology decisions while providing comprehensive oversight that accelerates operational efficiency.

Operationalize Core Processes

Deploy strategic capital budgeting processes and streamlined workflows that optimize IT investments and drive continuous improvement. Implement robust portfolio monitoring mechanisms that track performance, maintain oversight, and ensure maximum value realization from technology investments.

Stakeholder Engagement

We develop a comprehensive engagement framework that identifies and connects key stakeholders across your organization. We establish clear communication channels and structured information sharing that fosters transparency and collaboration throughout the change process.

Validation Through Implementation

We pilot initiatives with clearly defined objectives and success criteria. We utilize robust feedback mechanisms to capture insights and drive continuous improvement, systematically collecting lessons learned to optimize outcomes and accelerate maturation.

Strategic Alignment
IT initiatives are assessed and aligned with business goals through comprehensive analysis and strategic mapping. Clear IT principles are established to drive value-based decision making, creating a foundation for sustainable growth and innovation.
Governance Structure
We augment your capabilities by implementing a structured governance approach that clearly defines decision rights and accountability. We establish clear pathways for technology decisions while providing comprehensive oversight that accelerates operational efficiency.
Operationalize Core Processes
Deploy strategic capital budgeting processes and streamlined workflows that optimize IT investments and drive continuous improvement. Implement robust portfolio monitoring mechanisms that track performance, maintain oversight, and ensure maximum value realization from technology investments.
Stakeholder Engagement
We develop a comprehensive engagement framework that identifies and connects key stakeholders across your organization. We establish clear communication channels and structured information sharing that fosters transparency and collaboration throughout the change process.
Validation Through Implementation
We pilot initiatives with clearly defined objectives and success criteria. We utilize robust feedback mechanisms to capture insights and drive continuous improvement, systematically collecting lessons learned to optimize outcomes and accelerate maturation.

Firms with superior IT Governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives.

Dr. Peter Weill |Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Frequently Asked Questions

What is IT Governance and why is it important for aligning IT strategy with business strategy?

IT Governance is the decision rights and accountability framework to align IT investments with business strategies and encourage optimal usage of scarce IT resources. In order to be successful, organizations must design a set of IT Governance mechanisms that encourage behavior consistent with an organization's mission, strategy, and culture. Without IT Governance, organizations lack alignment between IT investments and business objectives, and lose the ability to drive top- and bottom-line results.

What are the key components of IT Governance that Kenway Consulting focuses on?

The key components of IT Governance that Kenway focuses on are:
• IT Decision Making Framework
• Governance Processes
• Communication Plan
• Pilot

How does Strategic Alignment in IT Governance support business strategies?

At Kenway, we believe that IT Strategy and IT Governance go hand in hand. Where IT Strategy defines how you ensure your organization is investing in the most important areas to drive business strategy, IT Governance ensures those investments are being done well and will achieve the ROI and benefits that are expected.

How does Kenway Consulting address Risk Management within IT Governance?

Kenway addresses risk management within IT Governance by implementing robust strategies and processes, to safeguard IT operations. Our approach includes:
• Establishing an IT compliance, risk and security strategy mitigate IT risks
• Developing a process to control IT compliance, risk and security (e.g., identity and access management, etc.)
• Establishing an IT resiliency strategy to ensure continuity of essential IT infrastructure
• Developing a process to setup IT resiliency assessments and controls (e.g., the COVID transition to remote setups)

How are IT resources managed and aligned with organizational capacity plans in Kenway’s IT Governance framework?

Kenway utilizes decision governance and accountability frameworks to ensure IT resources are aligned with organizational capacity plans:

• Designing, documenting, and publishing an IT organizational structure for stakeholders to understand how IT is organized
• Defining and publishing IT roles and responsibilities and gain agreement from stakeholders for individual responsibilities
• Creating resource capacity plans to ensure business needs can be met with current capacity and skillsets
• Developing a dashboard to track actual vs planned IT resource utilization throughout the year
• Hosting resource capacity reviews with leadership to accommodate changing capacity

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