Like alignment, governance, in our terms is defined more comprehensively. Governance becomes a key control point for the business enabling appropriate services and resources to be directed when and where needed in response to a change or (re)assessment of the business need.

This creates the opportunity for governance to become a dynamic process in which the business is fully engaged rather than at best an extension to some annual planning cycle or at worst a project office task and an agenda item at a meeting of auditors. A more dynamic governance process linked to smart assessment and (re)alignment in turn creates the possibility of a more agile IT services organisation that is capable of responding more quickly to changes to the business need.

This thinking not only offers great opportunities for today's business managers but we know it is also ideally suited to self-adaptive and self-managing systems in the context of IT futures. Specifically we can support you as shown below.