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Iso9001 Unit 1 Business Context

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1 Organisation Context (for examiner) The organisation provides consultancy services and oversees the implementation of IT programmes in Government. The programmes are aimed to better public service delivery for citizens and businesses. To achieve this objective, we either offer software development services or act as a broker for 3rd party vendors to provide commercially off the shelf products. The organisation additionally provides data centre hosting services and provisions the infrastructure needed to execute ICT services to Government. The organisation works as an active partner to government, in the objectives of promoting and encouraging further use of ICT in society. The organisation was established 26 years ago and while this may be …show more content…

2 Purpose The purpose is to explain the need for an Information Governance Policy and to outline further benefits that this will bring to the organisation. The policy has been aligned to the organisational strategy and in this respect wold need to be further updated as the stagey and business needs of the organisation evolve. The changes to the current practices are outlines in the paper while the resources required and related costs are explained in this paper and detailed costings are provided in Annex 3. 3 Current State of play The organisation is the proud holder of both ISO9001 and ISO27001 accreditations which have helped the organisation better its standing in the ICT industry. Both standards require a continual improvement approach and this mandates that as an organisation we must continually seek to ameliorate our procedures and processes to ensure we reap the best value from information held by the organisation and treat it like a valuable asset. It is therefore being proposed that an information governance policy is implemented across the organisation to better our posture to corporate …show more content…

The introduction of ISO27001, in response to a publicly know security breach, has further provided a framework of controls that safeguard the integrity, confidentiality and availability of the information. It has additionally re-established the confidence in the organisation to safe guard its information assets and those that it is entrusted to host against unauthorised intrusion. As part of the process of implementing the ISO standards we have established 89 policies and 90 procedures in total and although not all may relate directly to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 they are a sign of the established maturity of the organisation and the effort made towards establishing governance within. Amongst these of key importance we have

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