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Review and Improve Your IT Policy Library

Create policies for the risks that matter most to your organization.

  • Your policies are out of date, disorganized, and complicated. They don’t reflect current regulations and don’t actually mitigate your organization’s current IT risks.
  • Your policies are difficult to understand, aren’t easy to find, or aren’t well monitored and enforced for compliance. As a result, your employees don’t care about your policies.
  • Policy issues are taking up too much of your time and distracting you from the real issues you need to address.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

A dynamic and streamlined policy approach will:

  1. Right-size policies to address the most critical IT risks.
  2. Clearly lay out a step-by-step process to complete daily tasks in compliance.
  3. Obtain policy adherence without having to be “the police.”

To accomplish this, the policy writer must engage their audience early to gather input on IT policies, increase policy awareness, and gain buy-in early in the process.

Impact and Result

  • Develop more effective IT policies. Clearly express your policy goals and objectives, standardize the approach to employee problem solving, and write policies your employees will actually read.
  • Improve risk coverage. Ensure full coverage on the risk landscape, including legal regulations, and establish a method for reporting, documenting, and communicating risks.
  • Improve employee compliance. Empathize with your employees and use policy to educate, train, and enable them instead of restricting them.

Review and Improve Your IT Policy Library Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out how to write better policies that mitigate the risks you care about and get the business to follow them, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Review and Improve Your IT Policy Library – Phases 1-3

1. Assess

Assess your risk landscape and design a plan to update your policy network based on your most critical risks.

Policy Management RACI Chart Template
Policy Management Tool
Policy Action Plan

2. Draft and implement

Use input from key stakeholders to write clear, consistent, and concise policies that people will actually read and understand. Then publish them and start generating policy awareness.

Policy Template
Policy Communication Plan Template

3. Monitor, enforce, revise

Use your policies to create a compliance culture in your organization, set KPIs, and track policy effectiveness.

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IT Management & Policies

Find the right balance between risk mitigation and operational efficiency.
This course makes up part of the Strategy & Governance Certificate.

Please note that Academy course and certificate tracks will be updated on June 1, 2025. Please complete any current course you are enrolled in before this date or your progress will be lost.

  • Course Modules: 5
  • Estimated Completion Time: 2-2.5 hours

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Guided Implementation 1: Assess
  • Call 1: Scope your policy development plan.
  • Call 2: Discuss policy governance roles and objectives.
  • Call 3: Assess the high-level risks to be addressed by policy.

Guided Implementation 2: Draft & Implement
  • Call 1: Identify stakeholders and plan to gather their input.
  • Call 2: Discuss critical components of policies.
  • Call 3: Plan sign-off and publication of finished policies.

Guided Implementation 3: Monitor, Enforce, Revise
  • Call 1: Discuss policies in the context of company culture.
  • Call 2: Review key performance indicators.
  • Call 3: Perform root-cause analysis on non-compliance.

Authors

David Glazer

David Yackness

Michael Blair

Contributors

  • Kevin Vigil, IT Director, Southwest Care Center
  • Kathleen Coyle, IT Policy and Process Maturity Manager, Moog Inc.
  • Michael Deskin, Policy and Technical Writer, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
  • Edward Kizer, Policy and Procedure Officer, Shelby County Government, Tennessee
  • J.J. Campbell, CIO, Agriculture Financial Services Corporation
  • Philippe Delisle, CIO, Englobe
  • Alison Robinson, CIO, University of Maryland
  • Mike Hughes, Principal Director, Haines-Watts UK
  • Ilir Azizi, Manager, Ministry of the Attorney General, Ontario
  • One anonymous Senior IT Policy Analyst, Government Agency

Related Content: IT Governance, Risk & Compliance

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Last Revised: January 13, 2017

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