The IT Governance responsible defines political recommendations, norms, and standards in the domain of Information System:
- Define the process and key indicators for IT
- Definitions of IT politics and standards IT in the domain of :
- Functional Architecture,
- Application Architecture
- Technical or component Architecture
- IT Infrastructure
- Maintaining information repository of rules and the documentation of IT Governance
- Creation and maintenance of Governance documentation
- Verification of compliance with corporate governance rules in the projects and programs in order to build a sustainable information system, scalable, powerful, modular, reusable, flexible, and easy maintenance.
The IT Governance responsible guarantees consistency of the various components of the information System:
- Assessment of relevance and coherence
- Current Systems
- Projects in relation to the target architecture and existing systems (particularly opportunity studies, requirements definition, architecture choices of functional system);
- convergence plans of the current to future systems
- Control and validation of initiatives, business cases and specifications for IT projects
to build a sustainable information system, scalable, high-performance, modular, reusable, flexible and easy maintenance.
The IT Governance responsible defines communication:
- Awareness of senior management
- Develop culture
- Encourage good practice
- Avoid excesses
- Training of "Business"entities
- Advice and assistance to the teams (Business & IT)
- Promotes, with all users, the rules and the best practices in IT
- Inform users and suppliers about the rules and the best practices in IT. Organize users and IT service providers trainings
- Working in close and constant contact with those responsible for the different layer of the architecture and the security architecture to build a new corporate culture in which governance, best practices, architecture and security of the information system are major concerns of various stakeholders.
The IT Governance responsible has a technological and prospective monitoring:
- Monitoring of regulatory and technical developments in its domain
- Watch on the developments needed to ensure the coherence of the SI as a whole
- Study the innovative solutions offered by suppliers in terms of governance, architecture and security
- Assess the solutions implemented by other European TSOs or elsewhere or in other sectors (banks, telecom, ...)
- Controlling the impact of these solutions for society to maintain governance of the information system to technological level required by the evolution of the IT market.
Technology watch and forecast:
- Follow-up of the lawful and technical evolutions of its Domain
- Mandatory watch to the coherence of IS as a whole
- control the impact of solutions for the company in order to maintain the governance of the information system at the technological level required by the data-processing market evolution.