The Value Of IT Steering Committees
InformationWeek, Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
It's an old concept, but the idea of having a multi-disciplinary steering committee for IT can still deliver dividends. Here's how.
For CIOs and IT staff, the steering committee concept has been around since the 1960s. Then as now, it was born out of a belief that still exists today: that users, executive management and IT should have shared responsibility and decision-making power over project directions and funding, and then the committee monitors them through completion.
A steering committee should in theory be an equally shared responsibility. Unfortunately, the CIO often finds themselves doing a great deal of the steering, because the centerpiece of most projects is the technology that will run them.