IT Risk Management Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical IT Risk Management Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT Risk Management 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 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IT Risk Management improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. How much is the information output generated by the risk management process used as an important input to the strategic planning process?
   
   

2. How would you rate the nature and effectiveness of interactions between IT risk/compliance and other areas of the business?
   
   

3. Does the plan present an integrated approach by incorporating recovery, emergency response and crisis management issues?
   
   

4. Which of your IT or knowledge management initiatives are directly related to your IT risk and compliance initiatives?
   
   

5. How robust is your organizations dashboard reporting system in helping management monitor emerging risk conditions?
   
   

6. Is the risk reporting evidence based, making good use of the management information and expertise available?
   
   

7. Are the elements of the risk management framework operating as intended and providing the benefits sought?
   
   

8. Are improvements to external dependencies management documented and shared across the acquirer enterprise?
   
   

9. Do the acquirer and relevant external entities exchange information about threats to the critical service?
   
   

10. Do you have agreements to ensure your providers adhere to your information security and privacy policies?
    
    


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 IT Risk Management book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step IT Risk Management Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 IT Risk Management project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Lessons Learned: How much of your time was spent on other than this IT Risk Management project?
   
   

2. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its staff financial services are appropriately effective and constructive?
   
   

3. Stakeholder Management Plan: At what point will the IT Risk Management project be closed and what will be done to formally close the IT Risk Management project?
   
   

4. Risk Register: How could corresponding Risk affect the IT Risk Management project in terms of cost and schedule?
   
   

5. Risk Audit: What is the anticipated volatility of the requirements?
   
   

6. Quality Management Plan: If it is out of compliance, should the process be amended or should the Plan be amended?
   
   

7. Source Selection Criteria: What is the role of counsel in the procurement process?
   
   

8. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Evaluate the performance of operating organizations?
   
   

9. Assumption and Constraint Log: Are processes for release management of new development from coding and unit testing, to integration testing, to training, and production defined and followed?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Have late payment interests been rewarded and could they have been avoided?


 
Step-by-step and complete IT Risk Management Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT Risk Management project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IT Risk Management project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management project with this in-depth IT Risk Management Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management 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 IT Risk Management investments work better.

This IT Risk Management 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.