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