IVI's exclusive education
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
ICS Skills, IVI’s exclusive education partner in
Ireland, is the training and certification body of the
Irish Computer Society (ICS). ICS is the society
for chartered IT Professionals in Ireland and has
been driving IT Professionalism for over 45 years.
The ICS has a mandate to raise awareness, and
promote any model or framework which will
enhance the contribution of IT in the Irish
marketplace and the IT-CMF is an excellent
example of this.
The IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF)
was founded by the Innovation Value Institute,
based on campus at NUI Maynooth. It is the
product of over 60,000 person hours of research
and study across a range of industries and
geographies. Its objective is to define and
measure the business value which an IT
department brings to its organisation, across a
comprehensive set of 33 critical processes.
IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF)
IT-CMF is a unique end-to-end framework that
for the first time enables a CIO to improve
capability maturity across the entire IT
organisation.
// Maps IT organisations onto a capability
maturity curve based on empirically-derived
industry best practice across 3 different
capabilities within IT management
// Provides practices, outcomes and metrics
to improve capability maturity and therefore
consistency of output
// Enables organisations to assess and
benchmark over time
// Enables creation of roadmaps with
actionable measures to improve maturity
with best practice guidelines
// Provides capability accelerators and
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.
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.
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
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
Organisation benchmarking and best practice
Structure comparative qualitative and
quantitative benchmarking with similar
businesses
// Develop in-house expertise and obtain IT-CMF
certification
IT risk management
Clustered critical capabilities assessments
addressing risk management to extract
appropriate best practice
// Improve IT professionalism
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.
// Become qualified and self-sufficient in carrying
out assessments
// 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
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Intel
Contributors
BearingPoint
Central Bank of Ireland
Centre for Software Engineering
CIE
Cork City Council
Cork County Council
Dublin City Council
Department of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food
ESB
Fingal County Council
Irish Revenue Commissioners
Associates
Beaumont Hospital
Castlebridge Associates
Dublin City University
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Institute of Technology,
Blanchardstown
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