Business Owner

In UNSW, the Business owner role will typically be a senior staff member within a Division or Faculty who is accountable for the business capabilities and processes supported by the IT system. 

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Roles and responsibilities

Business Owners are accountable for business capabilities being supported by the system and/or technology and work closely with the Service Owner. Business Owners own the business outcomes that are delivered by the system and play a strategic role in defining the vision and communicating with key stakeholders.

Responsible for:

  • Signing off on annual user access reviews
  • Provision of business strategy and requirements for Service Lifecycle and roadmap

Accountable for:

  • Identifying and assessing service risks
  • Managing Cyber and security risks
  • Compliance with UNSW Data Governance policies and standards
  • Business Continuity plan
  • Appropriate user access and ongoing review of access ensuring the principle of least privilege
  • Approval of required planned service outages
  • Advocate for the service and secure funding for major change projects (for example, changing a system that contributes to the delivery of the service)
  • Provision of business strategy and requirements for Service Lifecycle and roadmap

More information

For further information and supporting policies please view:

  1. Cyber Policy and Standards
  2. Application Software Maintenance Standard 
  3. Service Managemet Office (SMO) SharePoint site