Cloud Consulting Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Cloud Consulting 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 999 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 Consulting improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. What are the different cloud-based workforce management and optimization tools and platforms that can be used to support various HR functions, such as recruitment, talent management, time and attendance, and payroll processing, and how can a cloud consultant evaluate and select the most suitable tools and platforms for an organization's specific needs?
   
   

2. What are the key considerations a cloud consultant should take into account when evaluating the organization's current IT skills and capabilities to support a cloud-based strategy, and how can they help the organization develop a plan to upskill or reskill its workforce to effectively manage and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and applications?
   
   

3. What role can a cloud consultant play in evaluating an organization's cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) capabilities and recommending improvements to incident, problem, and change management processes to enhance employee experience and engagement, and what are some common pain points or areas for improvement in these processes?
   
   

4. What are the key digital transformation initiatives that can be enabled by cloud computing, such as migrating applications to the cloud, developing cloud-native applications, and leveraging cloud-based analytics and artificial intelligence, and how can a cloud consultant help an organization prioritize and implement these initiatives?
   
   

5. What role can a cloud consultant play in evaluating an organization's cloud-based productivity suite and recommending customized workflows, templates, and integrations to enhance employee collaboration, communication, and creativity, and how might they balance the need for standardization with the desire for flexibility and autonomy?
   
   

6. What are the key metrics and benchmarks that can be used to measure the success of a cloud-based workforce management and optimization strategy, and how can a cloud consultant help an organization establish a continuous improvement cycle to optimize and refine its cloud-based workforce management and optimization processes over time?
   
   

7. To ensure optimal performance and scaling, how would a cloud consultant approach the design and implementation of compute resources, including instance types, containerization, and orchestration, for AI/ML workloads, and what benefits would they expect from GPU acceleration, distributed computing, or serverless architectures?
   
   

8. What are the security and compliance implications of using a PaaS, and how can a cloud consultant help an organization assess the security features and compliance certifications of various PaaS options, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR, to ensure the chosen PaaS meets the organization's security and compliance requirements?
   
   

9. What are the key features and functionalities that a cloud consultant should consider when evaluating cloud-based project management tools, such as integration with existing systems, scalability, security, and user adoption, and how can they weigh the pros and cons of each tool to make a recommendation to the organization?
   
   

10. What are the primary differences between Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk, Microsoft Azure App Service, Google Cloud App Engine, and other prominent PaaS options, and how can a cloud consultant help an organization evaluate and select the most suitable PaaS option based on its unique requirements and workloads?
    
    


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 Consulting book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Initiating Process Group: Do you know all the stakeholders impacted by the Cloud Consulting project and what needs are?
   
   

2. Activity Cost Estimates: What is the Cloud Consulting projects sustainability strategy that will ensure Cloud Consulting project results will endure or be sustained?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: Is there a set of procedures defining the scope, procedures, and deliverables defining quality control?
   
   

4. Probability and Impact Matrix: Are staff committed for the duration of the Cloud Consulting project?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: Has a deputy treasurer been appointed to sign checks when the treasurer is unable to perform that duty?
   
   

6. Duration Estimating Worksheet: Is a construction detail attached (to aid in explanation)?
   
   

7. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Would it be fair to say that cost is a controlling criteria?
   
   

8. Team Member Performance Assessment: Which training platform formats (i.e., mobile, virtual, videogame-based) were implemented in your effort(s)?
   
   

9. Human Resource Management Plan: Are the results of quality assurance reviews provided to affected groups & individuals?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Are the pages of the minutes book press pre-numbered?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cloud Consulting project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cloud Consulting 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 Consulting 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 Consulting 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 Consulting 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 Consulting 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 Consulting project with this in-depth Cloud Consulting Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cloud Consulting 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 Consulting 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 Consulting investments work better.

This Cloud Consulting 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.