Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Cloud Managed Service Provider Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Cloud Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Cloud Managed Service Provider 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 993 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 Managed Service Provider improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:
- Will your new DaaS solution simply be another service alongside your existing hosting and MSP services, or will you be seen as a cloud service provider?
- Is your data stored locally on a secure server, in the cloud through a SaaS product, or do you have a third party MSP that manages your data storage?
- Can the service provider help you transition seamlessly from the data center to a cloud service or supplementary managed service?
- What would happen in your organization when programs purchase own cloud computing technology to satisfy mission needs?
- What does your organization do when and if it needs to move from one cloud service provider to a different one?
- When and how do your business, application, project, and operations teams request and provision cloud services?
- What level of control do you want, and who is responsible for what after the transition to managed services?
- Can a cloud services provider deliver you the enforceable service level guarantees your stakeholders demand?
- Is outsourcing cost effective when accounting for security requirements and organizational risk thresholds?
- Which customer scenario is best suited to maximize the benefits gained from using a virtual private cloud?
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 Managed Service Provider book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Cloud Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Cloud Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Cloud Managed Service Provider Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Cloud Managed Service Provider project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Schedule Management Plan: Are milestone deliverables effectively tracked and compared to Cloud Managed Service Provider project plan?
- Planning Process Group: What is involved in Cloud Managed Service Provider project scope management, and why is good Cloud Managed Service Provider project scope management so important on information technology Cloud Managed Service Provider projects?
- Procurement Audit: Is there an overall mission for the procurement function/unit and is it determined which tasks the procurement function/unit should carry out?
- Executing Process Group: How does the job market and current state of the economy affect human resource management?
- Human Resource Management Plan: Is your organization heading towards expansion, outsourcing of certain talents or making cut-backs to save money?
- Initiating Process Group: Are the changes in your Cloud Managed Service Provider project being formally requested, analyzed, and approved by the appropriate decision makers?
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix: No rs: if a task has no one listed as responsible, who is getting the job done?
- Quality Audit: Are there sufficient personnel having the necessary education, background, training, and experience to assure that all operations are correctly performed?
- Schedule Management Plan: Has the scope management document been updated and distributed to help prevent scope creep?
- WBS Dictionary: Is authorization of budgets in excess of the contract budget base controlled formally and done with the full knowledge and recognition of the procuring activity?
Step-by-step and complete Cloud Managed Service Provider Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Cloud Managed Service Provider project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Cloud Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider project with this in-depth Cloud Managed Service Provider Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Cloud Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider 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 Managed Service Provider investments work better.
This Cloud Managed Service Provider 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.
