In a world of pervasive information technology, poor governance can lead to death and imprisonment. Where we're quick to 'do', governance encourages us to 'plan' and learn'. Governance is where operations meets honesty and where responsibility meets accountability. Where there's governance, there's humanity. Governance is the warp and the weft that binds programmes, projects, products and services together and makes business planning deliberate not luck.

This vibrant workshop encourages you to reach the top but not stop. We learn and apply the six internationally recognised principles of IT governance:

1: Responsibility
2: Strategy
3: Acquisition
4: Performance
5: Conformance
6: Human Behaviour

If you've been concerned as to what should happen in the boardroom, find out here. Whether you've made it to director, aspire to be so, or want to take a professional attitude to your day-today responsibilities attend this workshop.

• Sit in on a board meeting
• Leave with a comprehensive understanding of IT governance best practice.
• Receive useful materials that cut through the mire of standards and regulations.
• Find opportunities for quick wins to make immediate improvements to governance.
• Grasp the governance framework based on ISO/IEC 38500:2008

Who should attend?

• IT Directors
• IT Programme Managers
• IT Managers
• IT Architects
• IT Auditors

Materials you will get

• NCC Legal Guidance Note Number 5

ICT Legal Compliance
Key influencers of ICT law
Why organisations should comply with ICT legislation
The ICT legal risk management tool
Legal risk management
Implementing the legal risk management strategy

• The NCC IT Governance Best Practice Guide

The business case
Performance measurement
Implementation roadmap
Communications
Capability assessment
Risk management
Supplier governance
IT and audit working together
Information security
Legal and regulatory aspects
Architectures
Managing investments

About the course leader

Daniel Dresner, the National Computing Centre's information assurance analyst, delivers The National Computing Centre's information systems risk management research programme. A national expert on standards implementation, Daniel contributes to IT standards nationally, across Europe, and through the International Standards Organisation. He brought The NCC/DTI Towards Software Excellence scheme on- line, and wrote NCC's definitive and pragmatic guide to ISO/IEC 27001/27002/ BS 7799. Daniel is a trained facilitator and the technical authority for The National Computing Centre's assessment service for the e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF).