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CIO - Productivity Kit

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Over 230 IT and Internet Job Descriptions 
Disaster Recovery Template 
IT Service Management Template
Sensitive Information Policy
Salary Survey   -  Security Template

The best companies, and their CIOs, recognize ready access to the right information is necessary to guide enterprise operations. To help determine whether the Information Technology function is doing this, CIOs should see the solutions they provide:

• Accelerate enterprise operations through automation, workflow, and collaboration
• Improve business analysis and decision support by providing historical and forward-looking views, including benchmarks
• Provide performance management tools that analyze the company and its information technology resources
• Maximize enterprise revenues, products, services, and reputation
• Meet comprehensive management and compliance requirements

In addition, CIOs should:

• Develop a closed-loop management process of strategy formulation, communication of goals, and measurement
• Monitor the performance of IT using external and internal metrics with defined Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Use tools that support an IT planning process that integrates global IT planning and specific operational planning problems in which IT is truly aligned with the business

In a similar way, CIOs can also determine whether you are on the right track if their IT solutions provide:

• A single source for financial and operational information
• Timely access to accurate data, improving communication between IT, finance, and operations
• Increased alignment between front and back office applications, enabling management to effictively administer and track business strategy and decisions
• Reduced cost of compliance with industry and government mandated regulations
• Improved security and controls and reduced risk of contractual and regulatory noncompliance
• Improved predictability, particularly with budget and timelines

The CIO productivity kit Standard edition contains

• Over 230 IT job descriptions in word format
• IT Salary Survey for US and Canada (by city)
• Disaster Recovery Template which is Sarbanes Oxley compliant
• Security Template which is Sarbanes Oxley and ISO 27000 compliant
• IT Service Management Template (Change Management, Help Desk, and Service Requests)
• Sensitive Information Policy (Protect Credit Card Card and Personal Information)

 

The CIO productivity kit Metric edition contains

• Everything in the standard edition
• Metrics for Internet and IT (metric kit)
• Service Level Policy Agreement Policy Template (metric kit)