Charge
IT Governance is charged with recommending strategic direction, policy and process, and resource priorities for the management of information technology at UC Berkeley.
Role
- Strategic Alignment - Ensure that IT supports University and campus strategies, initiatives, and business needs.
- Process & Policy Oversight - Maintain structures, policies, and activities that increase the value of IT.
- Resource PrioritizationLink IT activity to campus outcomes through effective resource distribution.
Activities
- Guide continual IT service improvement
- Provide campus-wide input into IT strategy and goals
- Evaluate IT service performance and value
- Approve new goals intended to improve or realign services
- Develop and improve the governance function
- Establish a consistent and repeatable approach to defining IT strategy
- Coordinate strategic decision-making processes across campus IT
- Evaluate the performance and value of IT governance
- Recommend resource distribution across the full IT service life cycle
- Incorporate strategic prototyping activities
- Support service transitions for trial periods
- Maintain established services
- Invest in service improvement initiatives
- Redistribute resources from reduced and retired services
Benefits
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Increased campus wide engagement with and visibility of IT services.
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More diverse participation in and input to IT decision making.
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More predictable and intentional long-term IT planning.
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IT services that appropriately and performantly support UC Berkeley’s needs.
