IT Governance Seminar 

11 September 2008
University of Manchester

The seminar will examine several approaches to IT Governance including the JISC approach, identifying reasons for adopting it or other approaches from examples at different Universities.

The aim of the day is to enable Universities to examine their own IT governance structures and use the benefit of others’ experience for benchmarking or even implementing better IT governance structures.

With growing pressures on governance and management structures JISC commissioned a project to assist institutions in evaluating the management and governance of their information systems. The project developed the Information Management and Governance Toolkit which has become accepted as JISC approved ‘best practice’.

Speakers will include,

• Michael Coen, University of Strathclyde who developed the toolkit will talk about the JISC project for this and the adoption at Strathclyde.
  
• John Townsend, Liverpool John Moores University who were in the toolkit pilot project, found this exercise valuable but decided to adopt a different approach, John will discuss merits or otherwise of the toolkit and why LJMU opted for another approach.
  
• Paul Harness, University of Manchester. Following merger and restructure Paul will discuss Manchester’s approach including some of the political pressures and considerations which led to Manchester’s approach.
  
• Ulrike Hamer, Consulting and Integration at HP.  Ulrike will be presenting a corporate business perspective on IT governance.

The day will be facilitated by JISC Infonet who will be able to draw upon the 3 experiences discussed and give attendees good practice advice as well as pros and cons of each approach and highlight areas for consideration which may otherwise be overlooked.