Cloud Strategy Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. Have you articulated risk to the business, risk to successful attainment of your cloud strategy objectives, and risks to individual key initiatives within your cloud strategy?
   
   

2. Have you assessed your team, team skill sets, team structure, and organization structure skill sets currently in place to support your overall cloud strategy?
   
   

3. Who is auditing your organizations multi cloud strategy, how often is it evaluated, what is the methodology and who is monitoring backend analytics?
   
   

4. Have you identified key stakeholders with a vested interest in the formulation, implementation, and success of your cloud strategy?
   
   

5. Have you clearly identified any sites, infrastructure, applications, and other resources that are to be decommissioned/retired?
   
   

6. Have you clearly shown how your cloud strategy represents a linear reflection of overall business and IT strategic objectives?
   
   

7. Have you performed an assessment of your existing application infrastructure to identify workloads for migration to the cloud?
   
   

8. Are security, technical expertise, the demand for new skills and staff creating obstacles to implementing your cloud strategy?
   
   

9. What level of assurance is being sought over the privacy controls which protect data hosted in or processed by cloud services?
   
   

10. Have you identified SaaS applications currently in use where expanded usage could replace applications hosted internally?
    
    


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 Strategy book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Stakeholder Management Plan: Have the key elements of a coherent Cloud Strategy project management strategy been established?
   
   

2. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Key stakeholders to work with. How many potential communications channels exist on the Cloud Strategy project?
   
   

3. Process Improvement Plan: What personnel are the sponsors for that initiative?
   
   

4. Team Performance Assessment: How does Cloud Strategy project termination impact Cloud Strategy project team members?
   
   

5. Probability and Impact Assessment: What are the uncertainties associated with the technology selected for the Cloud Strategy project?
   
   

6. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its range of activities are being reviewed as rigorously and constructively as they could be?
   
   

7. Stakeholder Management Plan: How, to whom and how frequently will Risk status be reported?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: Have the funding arrangements been agreed where payments take place over several financial periods?
   
   

9. Activity Duration Estimates: When would a milestone chart be used instead of a bar char?
   
   

10. Risk Management Plan: Have customers been involved fully in the definition of requirements?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cloud Strategy project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cloud Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy investments work better.

This Cloud Strategy 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.