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partner in Ireland

What is IT-CMF?
IT-CMF (IT Capability Maturity Framework)
Driving IT Management Change
The effective management of IT has never been more challenging.
CIOs now need to mitigate new risks while ensuring the reliability
of the IT organisation’s capacity to deliver business value. The
need for IT organisations to reach higher levels of capability is
becoming increasingly urgent. CIOs need to step into the role of
business partner, delivering agile IT strategies to maintain
competitiveness. CIOs need proven tools, processes and metrics
to measure the total capability of the IT organisation to achieve a
value driven and professional approach to IT management.
About ICS Skills IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF)
ICS Skills, IVI’s exclusive education partner in IT-CMF is a unique end-to-end framework that
Ireland, is the training and certification body of the for the first time enables a CIO to improve
Irish Computer Society (ICS). ICS is the society capability maturity across the entire IT
for chartered IT Professionals in Ireland and has organisation.
been driving IT Professionalism for over 45 years.
// Maps IT organisations onto a capability
The ICS has a mandate to raise awareness, and maturity curve based on empirically-derived
promote any model or framework which will industry best practice across 3 different
enhance the contribution of IT in the Irish capabilities within IT management
marketplace and the IT-CMF is an excellent // Provides practices, outcomes and metrics
example of this.
to improve capability maturity and therefore
consistency of output
The IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF)
was founded by the Innovation Value Institute, // Enables organisations to assess and
based on campus at NUI Maynooth. It is the benchmark over time
product of over 60,000 person hours of research // Enables creation of roadmaps with
and study across a range of industries and actionable measures to improve maturity
geographies. Its objective is to define and with best practice guidelines
measure the business value which an IT
department brings to its organisation, across a // Provides capability accelerators and
comprehensive set of 33 critical processes. building blocks for improvement

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How do companies benefit from the IT-CMF? Education

IT-CMF has been used by a variety of global
organisations to solve a range of capability issues.
IT capability measurement and improvement
Determine current capability through
assessment, and plan to improve
IT organisational design and capability
management
Design the roles and responsibilities of IT
management based on critical capability
distribution
IT business alignment and leadership
Better alignment and understanding between
business and IT needs, improving leadership,
governance, accountability and transparency
Organisation benchmarking and best practice
Structure comparative qualitative and
quantitative benchmarking with similar
businesses
IT risk management
Clustered critical capabilities assessments
addressing risk management to extract
appropriate best practice
Cloud computing (including services innovation
and outsourcing)
Cluster the CP’s as appropriate to the
organisations priority
Whatever the priority issue, the IT-CMF enables
assessment of current IT capability gaps and helps to
define a roadmap to achieve improved capability
maturity with the KPI’s and processes to track progress.
ICS-Skills, in collaboration with the IVI, offers
professional education courses to help
organisations adopt the IT-CMF and to allow
individuals to achieve certification as IT-CMF
practitioners.
ICS-Skills currently offer the following courses:
// IT-CMF Passport (1-day)
// IT-CMF Core (3-day)
Organisations may choose education services to
meet their requirements, such as:
// Public courses or on-site
// Standard or customised
// Develop in-house expertise and obtain IT-CMF
certification
// Become qualified and self-sufficient in carrying
out assessments
// Improve IT professionalism
// Team and organisation capability building
// Personal development and career enhancement
All courses are instructor-led, with clear presentation
and focused demonstration, examples, activities,
exercises and workshops to reinforce learning in a
facilitated peer-based environment.

Current IVI Membership in Ireland

Steering Patrons Cork City Council Associates

National University of Ireland, Maynooth Cork County Council Beaumont Hospital
Intel Dublin City Council Castlebridge Associates
Department of Agriculture, Dublin City University
Contributors
Fisheries and Food Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
BearingPoint
ESB Institute of Technology,
Central Bank of Ireland
Fingal County Council Blanchardstown
Centre for Software Engineering
Irish Revenue Commissioners
CIE

How to get involved

If you would like to join over 50 leading global organisations who are working to improve
their capability maturity simply call us on 01 775 3008 or email corporate@ics.ie