• Identify the most important activities to be performed in support of business goals.
• Proactively manage the investment in IT.
• Architect specific, measurable and achievable objectives.
• Measure progress toward achievement of those objectives.
• Assess IT process performance.
• Manage risk.
• Ensure compliance.
• Manage portfolios, program and projects.
• Evaluate the organization's maturity level against industry best practices and international standards.
• Ultimately make decisions that enable IT to be an agile partner with the business.

There are so many places you could start making ITG improvements, but where is the "best" place to start? Pepperweed recommends our Business Goal to IT Objective Mapping exercise as the most logical first step. This includes:

• Understanding what goals are important to business.
• Understanding what objectives IT is currently operating under.
• Aligning those objectives to business goals.
• Understanding the constraints tied to each.
• Finishing the exercise by defining measures of success for business goals and measures of performance for IT objectives.

The result of this exercise will be an IT Governance roadmap designed to meet the specific needs of your organization.