Cyber Law and IT Governance

Part 1 A

Part 1 B

You are engaged jointly by East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire local authorities toadvise and act as a Consultant during the proposed merger and the creation of their new ITinfrastructure.


Your brief is as follows:Identify and manage the risks and vulnerabilities through Strategic Planning and RiskManagement.

Critically evaluate tools/models/approaches in order to prepare a Strategic Plan for theproposed merger (Minimum 3).

Synthesise your evaluative findings and make recommendations which should form the basisof a formal report of recommendations for Strategic Planning and Risk Managementstrategies to the local authorities. Your report must contain a minimum of threetools/models/approaches

Critically evaluate tools/models/approaches/standards for risk management (Minimum 3)

SWOT Analysis

PESTLE Analysis

OKR - Objectives and Key Results

Balanced Scorecard

To use the balanced scorecard,
strategic planning teams seek to answer the following four questions:

How do customers see us?

What must we excel at?

Can we continue to improve and create value?

How do we look to shareholders?

OKRs work by establishing a clearly defined goal (the objective) along with a handful of key results—that is, measurable checkpoints that build toward the target goal.

Political Economic Social Tecnological Legal Environmental

Strentghs Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats

Risk Idenitifcation

Qualitative analysis

Quantative analysis

Responses

Monitoring

Diagrams are required

Identifying the LESPI considerations that the council should acknowledge.

Identifying the LESPI (Legal, Ethical, Social and Professional issues) considerations that thecouncil should acknowledge.

Critically evaluate each aspect of LESPI in depth in relation to the brief

Provide examples to support your findings. For example: GDPR breach

Provide recommendations to how the council can counteract any issues raised

Must include diagrams

SMART Targets

Porters 5 Forces

Legal Issues

Ethical Issues

Social Issues

Professional Issues

Contract Law, issues around employment status and redundancy

Fire and Re Hire under different employment conditions

Staff Relocations

ISO Standards

Memberships of professional bodies

Environmental impact, recycling old technology, buildings

Data protection, a new body will require access to personal data both staff and consumers

Personal Privacy, linked to Data protection

Harmful actions, potential internal/external disruptions due to potential oppositions to merger

Liability

Health and safety at work act

Mergers Act