IT Steering Committee Charter

Description

This document certifies that your organization believes the IT function is critical to the organization’s success. You can use this document with your IT Steering Committee to oversee and report on how IT is implemented in your organization. The purpose is to establish the existence of the IT Steering Committee and document the standards by which the IT Steering Committee shall establish policies, standards, and procedures to be enforced throughout the organization.

Read on for the details of the Steering Committee Charter:

The following rules define the corporate policy for documenting IT policies, standards, and procedures to be enforced throughout the organization.

1. The IT Steering Committee shall have sole responsibility for creating, publishing, and communicating corporate policies related to information systems.
   a. The committee shall be led by a chairperson and a co-chairperson, shall meet on at least
   a quarterly basis, and shall publish meeting minutes on the corporate intranet.
   b. Members of this committee shall include members of management from various levels, as
   directed by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
2. The IT Steering Committee shall incorporate key control items into policies and standards, thereby documenting specific items within enterprise policy that the organization is asking all employees to follow.
3. The IT Steering Committee will send notifications to some or all employees as appropriate when new policies, standards, or procedures are published on the corporate intranet.
4. Documents submitted for approval by the IT Steering Committee must conform to the following content and naming rules:
   a. Policy documents shall be named using the form POL_xxxx_title where xxxx is a number
   uniquely identifying the document and the department that originated it and title is the title of
   the policy.
   b. Standard documents shall be named using the form STD_xxxx_title where xxxx is a
   number uniquely identifying the policy the standard supports and the department that
   originated it and title is the title of the standard.
   c.  Procedure documents shall be named using the form PROC_xxxx_title where xxxx is a
   number uniquely identifying the document and the department that originated it and title is
   the title of the procedure.