Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Cloud Center of Excellence Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Cloud Center of Excellence related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Cloud Center of Excellence specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Cloud Center of Excellence Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cloud Center of Excellence improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:
- What types of cloud-based data analytics and business intelligence solutions will the CCoE need to support, such as data warehousing or reporting and analytics platforms, and what are the specific requirements for integration with existing data analytics and business intelligence systems?
- What types of cloud-based student engagement and retention solutions will the CCoE need to support, such as student success platforms or retention management systems, and what are the specific requirements for integration with existing student engagement and retention systems?
- What types of cloud-based compliance and risk management solutions will the CCoE need to support, such as compliance management or risk assessment platforms, and what are the specific requirements for integration with existing compliance and risk management systems?
- How will the CCoE support cloud-based campus safety and emergency management services, such as emergency notification or incident management, and what are the requirements for integration with existing safety and emergency management systems?
- What are the key concerns for supporting and integrating with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) services like Google Cloud AI Platform, AWS SageMaker, and Azure Machine Learning for ISVs and software vendors?
- What are the specific needs for cloud-based parking and transportation services, such as parking permit management or transportation scheduling, and how will they be integrated with existing parking and transportation systems?
- What are the key requirements for cloud-based research computing services, such as high-performance computing, data analytics, or machine learning, and how will they be integrated with existing research infrastructure?
- What are the specific needs for cloud-based network and infrastructure services, such as cloud-based Wi-Fi or network access control, and how will they be integrated with existing network and infrastructure services?
- What types of cloud-based digital repositories will the CCoE need to support, such as institutional repositories or digital libraries, and what are the specific requirements for data preservation and authentication?
- How will the CCoE support cloud-based cybersecurity services, such as threat detection or security information and event management, and what are the requirements for integration with existing cybersecurity systems?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Cloud Center of Excellence book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Cloud Center of Excellence self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Cloud Center of Excellence Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Cloud Center of Excellence areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Cloud Center of Excellence Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Cloud Center of Excellence projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Cloud Center of Excellence Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Cloud Center of Excellence project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Are your organizations and items of cost assigned to each pool identified?
- Project Schedule: Are the original Cloud Center of Excellence project schedule and budget realistic?
- WBS Dictionary: The wbs is developed as part of a joint planning session. and how do you know that youhave done this right?
- Project Management Plan: Development trends and opportunities. What if the positive direction and vision of your organization causes expected trends to change?
- Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree are the skill areas critical to team performance present?
- Quality Audit: How does your organization know that the support for its staff is appropriately effective and constructive?
- Procurement Audit: Are there procedures to ensure that changes to purchase orders will be updated on the computer files?
- Closing Process Group: How dependent is the Cloud Center of Excellence project on other Cloud Center of Excellence projects or work efforts?
- Scope Management Plan: Has a provision been made to reassess Cloud Center of Excellence project risks at various Cloud Center of Excellence project stages?
- Schedule Management Plan: Are all payments made according to the contract(s)?
Step-by-step and complete Cloud Center of Excellence Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Cloud Center of Excellence project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Cloud Center of Excellence project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Cloud Center of Excellence project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 Cloud Center of Excellence project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 Cloud Center of Excellence project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 Cloud Center of Excellence project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Cloud Center of Excellence project with this in-depth Cloud Center of Excellence Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Cloud Center of Excellence projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- Integrate recent advances in Cloud Center of Excellence and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Cloud Center of Excellence investments work better.
This Cloud Center of Excellence All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
