Background

A Best & Essentials (B&E) team was assembled to address the issues raised in the audit. The B&E team is comprised of representatives from the Divisions of Administration and Finance, Information Technology, and Research (team members), and the primary goal was to help management "jump-start" the process. To that end, the following tasks were identified and accomplished:

1. Organized the effort
   • Documented "as is" environment
   • Decomposed tasks or practices into three tiers:
     • Business Risk and Continuity Planning
     • Resource Management
     • Resource Security
   • Identified gaps
   • Located support materials to fill gaps
   • Defined strategy for integrated delivery
   • Benchmarked peer organizations
   • Organized into an overall plan
2. Collected existing reference materials
3. Created a Best Practices web site
4. Created a template to document an IT Resource Management Plan