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== How does Enterprise Governance work? ==
In practice, Enterprise Governance works on two levels, the program and the project level.
At the program level, while executive management sets the strategic direction for the
Governance initiative, the governance body is responsible for its measurement and enforcement, ensuring alignment using approved frameworks and tools; managing the roadmap and selection of projects to meet strategic goals. At the project level, Enterprise Governance directs the project management of solution delivery to work within an engineering and project framework.

Enterprise Governance directs both the conformance and performance aspects in alignment within Enterprise governance and can be described as follows:

'''Performance includes:'''
*Maximising economies of scale across co-existing governance initiatives and value streams.
*Efficiency gains (processing time, costs, throughput capability).
*Customer satisfaction/customer experience.
*Governance Program/Project management (benefits realisation & value management).
*Effective & efficient use of resources (e.g. human, financial, assets).

'''Conformance includes:'''
*Process compliance (standardisation).
*Compliance with enterprise policies and external regulatory standards.
*Risk management and control.
*Integration of Enterprise Governance across the organization (coexistence with other governances).
*Governance Guiding Principles & Standards.
*Alignment of Enterprise Governance with Business Architecture (e.g. governance initiatives mapped to value streams; governance initiatives linked to business capabilities).

[[File:Enterprise Governance Lifecycle.png|thumb|800px|left|alt=Figure 1: The Enterprise Governance & Continuous Improvement model.|Figure 1: The Enterprise Governance & Continuous Improvement model.]]

This is accomplished within a continuous improvement lifecycle methodology, ensuring Enterprise Governance is relevant, effective and always in alignment with the strategic objects of the organisation. It includes the governance of business improvement, as well as governance of the implementation and adoption of Governance in the organization.

The lifecycle can be described as follows:

'''Analyze:'''
*Analyze as-is state of Governance CoE (e.g. methodology, organisational structure) and maturity of governance initiatives.
*Identify Governance CoE objectives and requirements.
*Assess alignment of business governance initiatives to strategic business objectives and critical success factors of organisation.
*Identify present pain points, bottlenecks and weakness clusters.
*Analyse the structure and efficiency of current governance initiatives.
*Assess current state of governance accountabilities and compliance to standards.

'''Design:'''
*Define the to-be state of Governance CoE (e.g. framework/model, structure).
*Assess Governance CoE resource capacity.
*Define governance control objectives and practices.
*Define targets to support strategic business objectives and critical success factors of the organisation.
*Define enterprise-wide architectures.
*Define governance standards and policies.
*Define measurements and monitoring methods (benefits realization, value management).

'''Build:'''
*Develop accountability framework (e.g. RACI).
*Develop governance policies and standards (modelling approach, best practices).
*Select governance improvement and reengineering projects, grouping projects into governance programs.
*Create to-be state of selected governance initiatives (e.g. optimization, agility).
*Allocate Governance CoE resources.
*Create Governance CoE project structures.

'''Deploy/Implement:'''
*Implement Governance CoE structures.
*Direct process improvement projects and programs, including automation opportunities (e.g. using Governance Reference Models).
*Implement Governance standards, policies and procedures.
*Deploy Governance CoE Change Deployment management, including communications and training.

'''Run/Maintain:'''
*Monitor and govern compliance and accountability (audit).
*Monitor effectiveness of Governance CoE structures
*Monitor governance effectiveness & efficiency (e.g. resource utilization, costs, processing times) through qualitative and quantitative measures against targets (KPIs, SLAs).
*Monitor success of governance improvement projects (benefits realization).

'''Continuous Improvement:'''
*Identify governance initiatives with potential for redesign, improvement and greater productivity.
*Identify opportunities to streamline value streams.
*Identify/eliminate process redundancy.
*Identify opportunities to improve accountability and compliance.
*Identify opportunities to improve governance standards, policies, procedures and enterprise-wide architectures.
*Identify opportunities to optimize Governance CoE Structures.
*Identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization.
*Modify targets to support changes in strategic business objectives and critical success factors of the organisation.

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