IT Consulting Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT 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 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IT Consulting improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. How does the client currently allocate their IT budget across different categories, such as infrastructure, applications, personnel, and vendors, and what metrics or benchmarks does the client use to measure the effectiveness of their IT spend, and how can an IT consultant help optimize these allocations to better support business objectives?
   
   

2. What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics that the client currently uses to measure the effectiveness of their cybersecurity program, including mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR), and what additional metrics need to be implemented to provide a more comprehensive view of their cybersecurity posture?
   
   

3. How does an IT consultant incorporate considerations of the client's overall business strategy, industry trends, and regulatory requirements into the cost-benefit analysis, in order to ensure that the results are aligned with the client's broader goals and objectives and take into account the relevant external factors and constraints?
   
   

4. What are some common integrations with other business systems that an IT project and portfolio management system may require, such as financial management systems, human capital management systems, and customer relationship management systems, and how does an IT consultant help organizations to design and implement these integrations?
   
   

5. What specific industry standards and regulations does the client need to comply with, and how does the IT consultant identify these requirements? For instance, does the client operate in a heavily regulated industry such as healthcare, finance, or government, which would require compliance with standards like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or NIST?
   
   

6. In what ways do you leverage emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to bring greater agility and responsiveness to the client's IT systems and infrastructure, and how do you ensure that these technologies are integrated in a way that supports business objectives?
   
   

7. How does an IT consultant facilitate ongoing improvement and optimization of a client's IT vendor management system, including regular vendor performance reviews, contract renegotiation, and continuous process refinement to ensure that the system remains relevant and effective in supporting the organization's evolving IT needs?
   
   

8. What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) that an IT consultant should use to measure the effectiveness of a client's IT incident management process, including incident resolution rates, mean time to resolve (MTTR), and mean time between failures (MTBF), and how can these metrics be used to identify areas for improvement?
   
   

9. How do IT consultants ensure that IT service continuity and disaster recovery plans are regularly tested, updated, and maintained to reflect changes in the client's business operations, technology infrastructure, and threat landscape, and what strategies do they use to ensure plan sustainability and continuous improvement?
   
   

10. What role do agile frameworks and methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Extreme Project Management, play in shaping IT project management practices, and how do they differ from traditional project management approaches in terms of their emphasis on iteration, incremental delivery, and continuous improvement?
    
    


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 IT Consulting book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: Are there procedures to ensure that changes to purchase orders will be updated on the computer files?
   
   

2. Human Resource Management Plan: Is the current culture aligned with the vision, mission, and values of the department?
   
   

3. Activity Duration Estimates: Why is activity definition the first process involved in IT Consulting project time management?
   
   

4. Stakeholder Management Plan: Will all relevant stakeholders be included within the review process?
   
   

5. Executing Process Group: How does IT Consulting project management relate to other disciplines?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: Why is there a new or renewed interest in the field of IT Consulting project management?
   
   

7. Schedule Management Plan: Are the predecessor and successor relationships accurate?
   
   

8. Probability and Impact Matrix: What kind of preparation would be required to do this?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Assessment: Costs associated with late delivery or a defective product?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: What is the career outlook for IT Consulting project managers in information technology?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT Consulting project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT 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 IT 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 IT Consulting investments work better.

This IT 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.