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IT/Business Alignment at the European Court of Auditors (ECA)
Emanuele FOSSATIAudit Support Service ManagerIT Directorate – ECA Luxembourg
Prague, 19 September 2012
IT/BUSINESS ALIGNMENT
ONGOING STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
ANNEXES
ECA is a knowledge‐based organisation where business processes can be easily identified
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Core Business
ECA‐IT Directorate is service/process oriented
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Main business processes
Transversal support processes
Each system is mapped on one or more service(s)/process(es)
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Extract from the Enterprise Architecture Documentation
User support and governance are key elements
• IT Service Desk• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)• IT Steering Committee• Project Management Office (PMO)• Change Management, Release Management, etc.
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IT/BUSINESS ALIGNMENT
ONGOING STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
ANNEXES
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable” (Seneca)
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Administrative systems
Statistical analysis , Data miningData Warehousing
Management Information systemsPortfolio Management tools
Content and Document Management SystemsCase Management systemsPlanning and time recording
Collaboration tools : Wiki, forum, blog, etc.Intranet, internet, extranetSearch
Workflows, task managementAuditor‐centric Vision
Tamaris(Total Audit management and reporting information system)
ECA Auditors are a very mobile workforce
Mobility Initiative
• IT participated in some audit missions• Workshops with Users are organised regularly• Ideas and Business Needs are evaluated, ranked and prioritised
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CONSUMERISATION
• Preference for personal devices
• Flexibility• Evidence Documents in many formats (internal security challenge)
EVIDENCE COLLECTION
• Secure Photography• On‐the‐field document acquisition
CONNECTIVITY
• Knowledge‐base should always be accessible
• No EU‐wide affordable mobile data plans
• Hotel Infrastructures• Internal mobility
Audit is an intensive knowledge‐based work
The Social Intranet is an exciting new frontier!
• Explicit Knowledge: formal, centralised, organised• Tacit Knowledge: informal, distributed, difficult to capture and to make available
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ECA SharePoint Architecture
• Institutional sites (Assyst 2, Compass 2, Guidelines, Audit Manual, etc.)
• Team sites (each unit/team can ask for a public or a private site)
• Personal profiles/blogs (currently experimental in IT only)
• Skill Database (under design)
Institutional and personal knowledge‐bases
The Corporate Search glues and exposes
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ORGANISATION
• Taxonomy• Metadata• Subject browsing
SEARCH ENGINE
• Intra‐site search engine• Intra‐technology including legacy systems (under design)
Collaboration involves external people
• Inter‐institutional collaboration• (Secure) data exchange with Auditees
EXTRANET: same concepts as the Social Intranet but extended to external users and contributors
• Security challenges• Advanced user‐base management
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Example of collaboration: EuroSAI ‐ ISSAP
• Chaired by ECA, two Workshops per year• (currently) 9 participants• Goals: to share experience and provide practical solutions
• 3 Work streams (domains) defined– OPERATIONAL– KNOWLEDGE – IT as ENABLER
• Next planned meeting: November 2012
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Thank you very much!
Emanuele [email protected]
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Audit is a very peculiar knowledge‐based work
• IT has to participate very closely in the everyday life of auditors, to correctly capture business needs
Never before was it so possible to capture tacit knowledge
• Great opportunity to explore innovative social technologies
Encourage your colleagues to experiment
• IT can be very creative and innovative
IT/BUSINESS ALIGNMENT
ONGOING STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
ANNEXES
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Audit Programming
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Audit Planning
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Audit Execution
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Audit Reporting
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Audit support functional coverage
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Audit Management Reporting
Audit Data Management Audit Document Management
Audit Approval / Validation Audit Knowledge Management
Audit Communication Exchange Audit Resource Management
Audit Tools Usability
Audit Tools Administration
Document Creation Document Edit Document Search
Document storing / versioning
Document Track Changes
Document Freeze
Document Link Extract Document metadata for MIS
Start Document Validation process
Steps definition according to hiera…
Definition of alternative steps
Document Edit for validators
Track validator changes to docu…
Approve / Reject Document
Escalation Validator Absence Management
Extract Validation metadata for MIS
Audit Reference Document Manag…
Audit Wiki Management
Audit Forums
Archived Audits Management
Regulations Library Management
Risk Library Management
External Bookmarks Management
Send a Document to translation
Define Resources and availability
Manage Portfolio of Potential Audits
Manage Chamber Annual Work Pro…
Consolidate Court Annual Work Pro…
Specific Audit Planning
Audit Time Reporting
Audit control and followup
Extract Control Data for MIS
User Single Login
Manage User Profiles
Maximum Response time
Remote online utilisation
Tool Availability Remote offline utilisation
APM data manipulation
Document generation
AP data manipulation
SPF data manipulation
Finding data manipulation
Evidence storing Financial Transaction storing
Auditee feedback management
Internal communication
Audit Tasks exchange
Post office Interaction with Translators
Audit checklist management
SPF replies from auditee
Forecasts for translators
Document rights management
Followup of recommandations
Resources skill management
Reconciliation with Flexitime
Reconciliation with Mission
Multilanguage
Personal Workbench
Management dashboard
Adhoc reporting Scheduled reporting