Information Technology Consulting Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Information Technology 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 996 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Information Technology Consulting improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 996 standard requirements:


1. Have you dedicated at least one staff member to manage, on a full time basis, information security as a Chief Information Security Officer or equivalent?
   
   

2. Has the plan been developed in consultation with or reviewed by key stakeholders, as legal, compliance, and information technology?
   
   

3. Have you ever wondered about ways to capture and share knowledge in order to build the strategic intelligence of your organization?
   
   

4. Do you control access to information that can be displayed, printed, and/or downloaded to external storage devices?
   
   

5. Does the cost comparison include the value of data management, consultative costs, institutional knowledge?
   
   

6. Who has the ultimate responsibility for making sure consultant contracts are in compliance with statutes?
   
   

7. How do you address concerns over IP as digital systems and information exchange becomes more commonplace?
   
   

8. Should the management consultants who recommended the solution have a role in the implementation work?
   
   

9. Does the client have any financial interest in the distribution partner that might have to be severed?
   
   

10. What opportunities exist to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of seasonal staffing practices?
    
    


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 Information Technology Consulting book in PDF containing 996 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: Has the award included no items different from the already stated contained in bid specifications?
   
   

2. WBS Dictionary: Is each control account assigned to a single organizational element directly responsible for the work and identifiable to a single element of the CWBS?
   
   

3. Risk Audit: Have you reviewed your constitution within the last twelve months?
   
   

4. Risk Register: What further options might be available for responding to the risk?
   
   

5. Human Resource Management Plan: Is the Information Technology Consulting project schedule available for all Information Technology Consulting project team members to review?
   
   

6. Lessons Learned: How effectively were issues resolved before escalation was necessary?
   
   

7. Team Member Performance Assessment: What entity leads the process, selects a potential restructuring option and develops the plan?
   
   

8. Probability and Impact Assessment: Are requirements fully understood by the software engineering team and customers?
   
   

9. Change Request: Should staff call into the helpdesk or go to the website?
   
   

10. Project Management Plan: Are the proposed Information Technology Consulting project purposes different than a previously authorized Information Technology Consulting project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Information Technology Consulting project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Information Technology 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 Information Technology 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 Information Technology 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 Information Technology 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 Information Technology 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 Information Technology Consulting project with this in-depth Information Technology Consulting Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Information Technology 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 Information Technology 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 Information Technology Consulting investments work better.

This Information Technology 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.