IT Management

IT Assessments: An Organizational Audit

This class will show the IT practitioner how to properly audit and assess the capabilities and risks of an IT group within an organization. The financial community has its audit process, which is meant to reassure management that their financial statements are accurate and that the organization is not exposed to unnecessary financial risk. Yet, with the critical nature of IT in a modern organization, no such formal process exists. Participants will learn how to approach an audit of the IT function and provide accurate and meaningful assessments.

Objectives
Attendees Will Learn:

What is an IT assessment?
Cost versus benefit
The methodology
How to define the organizations mission, vision, and goals
Establishing a scoring model
Research: internal and external
Interviews
Testing, Observation, Data Collection
Analysis
Creating the assessments
Recommendations (including appropriate types)
The Assessments, General assessments, Technology assessments
Business focus, IT Focus

Duration –1 day

Who Should Attend
Senior managers, IT analysts, or others interested in assessing the capabilities and risks of any IT organization. Mergers and acquisition analysts and venture capitalists will find this course highly effective as well, as it will give them a framework for evaluating the value and risk of a potential acquisition's IT group.

Course Format-Lecture, discussion, exercises

Instructor: George Kelly Flanagin or Susan R. Jacobs, or Dr. Pamela Kiecker or John N. Pastore Jr.