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.