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Escoute Consulting is a Veteran-owned business with experienced consultants who have deep skills in IT Governance consulting from “Big Five” consulting firms. Our clients turn to us for advice on ITIL,...
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Our specialty is focused on a multitude of governance frameworks: ITIL, COBIT, ISO, and many others. Our advisors are experts in the field with real experience. We can help you end to end from...
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We are IT Governance. Our clients turn to us for advice on a multitude of areas in the IT governance and frameworks space. We strive to be your strategic advisor, offering assistance and guidance only...
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Let’s face it, we in IT are under increasing pressures. These pressures are sources of demand for our operational, planning, and compliance resources that tax our ability to deliver value. With the...
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To Steer or to Strategize –Differences between IT Steering Committees and IT...
Yes ‘decision by committee’ is often negatively associated with non-essential, seemingly off-target, purposeless meetings. Agreed (sometimes) – meetings for the sake of meetings is unproductive and a...
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Innovation? There’s a process for that!
In order to achieve competitive advantage, business must continually strive to innovate. Innovation, coupled with improved operational effectiveness and efficiency can exploit and leverage information...
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One part ITIL, one part COBIT
Framework Overload Considering the many challenges faced by IT service providers today, leveraging frameworks to assist in managing and controlling IT services is a logical, yet difficult task. With...
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MOF – an ideal service management framework addition
As IT service providers move up the enterprise value contribution ladder, the need for a repeatable and reliable service management framework becomes clear. There are several to choose from – most...
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The difference between governance and management
By now, it should be understood (through legislation, regulations, standards, etc.) that boards, executives, and IT must collaborate in order to gain alignment and provide value for stakeholders. The...
View ArticleWhy am I a huge fan of COBIT?
COBIT5 has been around for a couple of years now, so I should probably stop referring to it as the new release and simply call it the latest. I was introduced to COBIT back in version 4.0, and have...
View ArticleTips to gaining executive support for IT Governance initiatives
The hardest question I get as an IT governance advisor is, “how do I get executive level support for our IT governance program?” Surprisingly, this question, which comes from operations as well as...
View ArticleWhy am I a huge fan of COBIT?
COBIT5 has been around for a couple of years now, so I should probably stop referring to it as the new release and simply call it the latest. I was introduced to COBIT back in version 4.0, and have...
View ArticleTips to gaining executive support for IT Governance initiatives
The hardest question I get as an IT governance advisor is, “how do I get executive level support for our IT governance program?” Surprisingly, this question, which comes from operations as well as...
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Using Multiple Guidance Systems for the Governance of Enterprise IT
The most secured company in the world I’ve been known to tell a story about when my CEO rounded up the executive management team (I was the CIO at the time) and pounded us with the question: “Why are...
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Solving Framework Fatigue. Using COBIT5 to Manage Frameworks and Achieve...
With a multitude of models, standards, bodies of knowledge and frameworks in our industry, it’s easy to see how navigating through these becomes utterly exhausting for an IT service organization. The...
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Integrating Enterprise and IT Risk Functions Using Scenarios
The challenges that organizations face today are increasingly more complex than in the past. The constant change of the global economy, dynamics of business risks and opportunities, and an increased...
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A new COBIT® is in town and I really like how this looks.
ISACA released the latest version of the framework this month and I can tell you without hesitation that this latest structure is one of the best governance and management frameworks to date for the...
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IS BALANCING BUSINESS DEMAND AND IT RESOURCE SUPPLY A GOVERNANCE CONCERN?
Of course, it is an IT Governance issue If I asked a hundred IT leaders if they needed additional resources, none of them would reply, “No thanks, we’re good on resources.” We see it all the time. IT...
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Finally! A guide for tailoring a governance system for Information and...
Back in November I posted about how excited I was to see ISACA’s update to the COBIT framework and provided some thoughts about navigating through the first two guides. Click here to take a look if you...
View ArticleHow do I interpret COBIT process guidance in the updated 2019 version of COBIT?
This year ISACA released the latest edition of the COBIT framework and one of my favorite parts is the introduction of governance and management objectives. Check out this short video blog on what...
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