e-cio consolidate the industiral effort
e-cio conslidate the industry efforts to establish IT management best practice in a holistic architecture approach. Many organizations have worked toward the direction in establishing common IT managment best practice such as the US OCIO coucil, itsmf, ITIL and Cobit. Although each organization work toward this direction from different aspect, it is interesting to observe that all the existing IT managment best practice effort shares similar circular framework as shown in the following figure. Instead of trying address IT managment from different asspects, e-cio sugget to see the big picture of IT managment as the OCIO architecture.
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and techniques for managing information technology (IT) infrastructure, development, and operations.
ITIL is published in a series of books, each of which cover an IT management topic. The names ITIL and IT Infrastructure Library are registered trademarks of the United Kingdom's Office of Government Commerce (OGC). ITIL gives a detailed description of a number of important IT practices with comprehensive checklists, tasks and procedures that can be tailored to any IT organization
COBIT
The Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) is a set of best practices (framework) for information technology (IT) management created by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) in 1992. COBIT provides managers, auditors, and IT users with a set of generally accepted measures, indicators, processes and best practices to assist them in maximizing the benefits derived through the use of information technology and developing appropriate IT governance and control in a company.
The IT Service Management Forum (itSMF)
itSMF international Instead of considering IT management from the aspect of services and processes. e-CIO consider IT management from the aspect to architect the OCIO line of business. This is an "Eat your dog food " effort to architect the Office of Chief Information Officer in the Enterprise Architecture approach from the layers of Business, Application, Data and Technologies.
It establish the master plan to architect the OCIO, identify the existing IT management solution from the industry and suggest to make transition from the stovepipe IT management culture to an architeted IT management solution. After all, the OCIO have to eat it's own dog food to get buy-in from the others on the concept of enterprise architecture.
The OCIO architecture analysis leverage on existing IT management efforts such as the :
. Practical Guide for Federal Enterprise Architecture by CIO Council.
. The COBIT framework
. The ITIL version 3 Framework
. The ITIL version 2 Framework.
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