CurePCs nordia Security Engineers

 News:
PrePrint: Assessing and Managing IT-Enabled Business Integration Risk
Business organizations both large and small make significant investments in IT-enabled business processes. These investments enable new business capability, reduce costs, enhance productivity, as well as enhance competitiveness in a global environment. However, business investment in IT-enabled processes can often be jeopardized due to a failure of identifying and managing the risks associated with inter and intra IT/business process integration. This paper discusses both a process and tool for use in proactively identifying, addressing, and mitigating integration risks associated with IT-enabled business process change efforts. The assessment tool helps to identify the integration risks associated with inconsistent or poorly articulated: architectures; governance processes; process dependencies; master data definitions; and services. The integration review process provides management visibility to all identified integration risks and the plans and actions surrounding their mitigation; as well as, enhances participant ownership, accountability, and trust surrounding mitigation outcomes.