IIoT Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. How to you integrate IoT/IIoT, pervasive sensing, and the cloud into your companies existing data fabric security and with context and exploit advanced analytics?
   
   

2. Do the workloads you run in virtual, cloud and software defined environments receive the same protections as workloads run in your data center?
   
   

3. Is an understanding of device communications, IO Link, security and encryption, or infrastructure standing in your way of benefiting from IIoT?
   
   

4. What are the most significant risks associated with investing in the application and use of advanced technologies in IIoT data driven domains?
   
   

5. How much more likely would it be that that organization with near perfect information flow, would have high levels of production efficiency?
   
   

6. How concerned are you about the current threat landscape and geopolitical situation in terms of the impact it may have on your organization?
   
   

7. How is the executive leadership informed about the current threat level and potential business impact of cyberattacks on your organization?
   
   

8. How can a manufacturing organization significantly reduce the cost and complexity of system management, maintenance, safety, and security?
   
   

9. How do other organizations make time to find improvement opportunities offered by IIoT, while dealing with day to day operations?
   
   

10. Do you have clear visibility of log activity in all of your network segments or is monitoring too complex a task to be useful?
    
    


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 IIoT book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Quality Metrics: Did the team meet the IIoT project success criteria documented in the Quality Metrics Matrix?
   
   

2. Procurement Audit: Budget controls: does your organization maintain an up-to-date (approved) budget for all funded activities, and perform a comparison of that budget with actual expenditures for each budget category?
   
   

3. Planning Process Group: What input will you be required to provide the IIoT project team?
   
   

4. Scope Management Plan: Are IIoT project leaders committed to this IIoT project full time?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: Do contracts contain regular reviews, targets and quality standards in order to assess suppliers performance?
   
   

6. Risk Audit: To what extent are auditors effective at linking business risks and management assertions?
   
   

7. Probability and Impact Matrix: How is the risk management process used in practice?
   
   

8. Schedule Management Plan: Have adequate resources been provided by management to ensure IIoT project success?
   
   

9. Planning Process Group: What factors are contributing to progress or delay in the achievement of products and results?
   
   

10. Risk Audit: For this risk .. what do you need to stop doing, start doing and keep doing?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IIoT project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IIoT project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 IIoT 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 IIoT 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 IIoT 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 IIoT 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 IIoT project with this in-depth IIoT Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IIoT 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 IIoT 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 IIoT investments work better.

This IIoT 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.