ME4.3:

ME 4.3 Value Delivery

Control Objective:

Manage IT-enabled investment programs and other IT assets and services to ensure that they deliver the greatest possible value in supporting the enterprise’s strategy and objectives. Ensure that the expected business outcomes of IT-enabled investments and the full scope of effort required to achieve those outcomes is understood, that comprehensive and consistent business cases are created and approved by stakeholders, that assets and investments are managed throughout their economic life cycle, and that there is active management of the realization of benefits, such as contribution to new services, efficiency gains and improved responsiveness to customer demands. Enforce a disciplined approach to portfolio, program and project management, insisting that the business takes ownership of all IT-enabled investments and IT ensures optimization of the costs of delivering IT capabilities and services. Ensure that technology investments are standardized to the greatest extent possible to avoid the increased cost and complexity of a proliferation of technical solutions.

Applicability:

Sarbanes-Oxley

HIPAA

GLBA

PCI

FISMA

NIST SP 800-66

Ditscap

Control Exception

User Defined

Risk Association Control Activities:

Implementation Guide:

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Process Illustration
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Control Commentary
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Control Exception Commentary
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Evidence Archive Location
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Control Status and Auditors Commentary
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Supplemental Information:

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