IT Governance at ING
IT Governance at ING
IT Governance at ING
Bikash Shah Arnav Nandy Arpita Nayak Asish Tripathy Avinash Agarwal Bhasker Shrestha Chandan Khandelwal
Agenda
1 minute 2 minutes 2 minutes 2 minutes 2 minutes 2 minutes 1 minute About ING Group + Governance: Corporate and IT
Bikash Shah
IT governance matrix
Chandan Khandelwal
About ING
ING Group is a global financial services institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management to 60 million private, corporate and institutional clients worldwide ING employs more than 115,000 people, and 70 percent of its stock is held outside the Netherlands. In today's financial markets the group has a total assets of more than 1.169 trillion The mission of the group is to set the standard in helping the customers manage their financial future
ING aims to deliver financial products and services in the way that their customers want them delivered: with exemplary service, convenience and at competitive prices.
As a part of their corporate strategy, running a business is a well organized activity carried out by professional people who accept full responsibility and accountability for their actions ING is totally dependent on IT, not just for support and enhancing business, but also enabling it. The organisation is reliant upon it 24/7/365 days a year. Without IT, there would be no business.
High level issues concerning use of IT Current priorities for IT investment Ensuring IT alignment with business needs
How often do IT projects fail to deliver what they promised? Does the board have a clear view on how much the enterprise invests in IT compared to its competitors?
It is a responsibility of the members of that board to ensure that the mechanisms are in place to provide answers.
Within ING, a global IT governance structure has been implemented that meshes with its overall corporate governance structure.
This helps ensure the strategic alignment of IT with the business This structure is meant not only to improve the quality of the IT function but also to speed up decision-making
IT Policy Board: The policy is set by the IT policy board. This policy board consists of
Three board directors OPS/IT portfolio keepers of the three executive centres The director of the Corporate IT (CIT) staff department
IT Leadership Council: It consists primarily of business CIOs who advise the policy board. The IT leadership council has three subgroups dealing with IT standards, IT architecture and IT infrastructure. Information Security Steering Committee: To demonstrate the seriousness that ING applies to information security, there is a separate information security steering committee that also reports directly to the IT policy board
IT metrics
The metrics which are collected and analyzed includes the following: IT costs by category and by activity IT staff numbers and costs analysed by activity Full-time vs. contract IT staff Outsourcing ratios Workstation costs IT intensity (IT costs as a percentage of total operating costs) IT related operational risk incidents (number and value)
IT metrics of ING
The IT metrics of ING helped it in the following way: Have a lower cost base (in terms of the ratio of operating costs to premium income) Spend more on IT Spend relatively more on IT development and less on maintenance Have higher outsourcing levels
The IT intensity within ING was directly comparable with the high performers. ING operated efficiently in terms of operating cost-to-premium income ratio. ING was well below best-in-class for percentage of expenditure on new developments. ING spent relatively significantly more on legacy system maintenance.
ING took less advantage of outsourcing IT compared to its fellow high performers.
investment how to prioritize Transactional Aim to increase efficiency and to reduce costs Informational Managing and controlling the organization Strategic
o To
increase competitive advantage, enable the entry into new markets or otherwise enhance revenue streams. o Strategic investments do tend to be high-risk but potentially have very high returns.
Higher
performers invest relatively more in IT projects that fell into the infrastructure and transactional categories higher performers among ING's insurance business units spent 79 percent of their investment budget on projects in these two categories against 60 percent for the lower performers.
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higher performers spent 14 percent of their IT investment budgets on strategic initiatives compared to just 4 percent for the lower performers.
Conclusion
ING
believes the IT dashboard and the IBM/ING research are both very useful Providing knowledge and tools that improve the IT investment process and help to better manage IT expenditure Threefold help
Shareholder return is at least partly related to IT intensity, i.e., how much is spent on IT and how is it spent Best shareholder return is generated by transactional (cost saving) projects because they emphasize standardization and efficiency Creating future revenue growth and to further improve sustainable financial performance for all stakeholders
Taken
some innovative and forward-looking steps toward the achievement of world-class IT governance processes ING is considering the potential benefits to the organization in providing similar IT value and performance services to other organizations as a commercial service
IT Governance Matrix
Decision Domain IT Principles Governance Archetype Input Busines Monarchy IT Monarchy Federal IT Duopoly Feudal CTAC Chairma n and CEO CIO Architecture exception Services IT Catalog Council All CIOs Business Business Leaders Leaders CIO EAO EAO Funding authorization CSS Board CIO Decision Input IT Architecture IT Infrastructure Business Appliation and Strategies Need Decision Input Decision Input IT Investment Decision Investment Committee
Decision Input
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