IT GRC Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT GRC 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 990 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 GRC improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:


1. Have you seen any evidence that there are prepared outlines of communications plans for employees and various stakeholders to use in each type of identified crisis?
   
   

2. Has your crisis readiness team identified any additional controls or measures for each critical business objective that must be implemented in a crisis situation?
   
   

3. Has your crisis readiness team identified roles or specific individuals responsible for implementing and overseeing each added control or measure in a crisis?
   
   

4. Has your crisis readiness team prepared outlines of communications plans for employees and various stakeholders to use in each type of identified crisis?
   
   

5. Are you a board member or a senior executive, officer or business unit leader involved in governance at the enterprise, business unit or project level?
   
   

6. Do you agree that big data will have implications on the availability and affordability of financial products and services for some consumers?
   
   

7. Have you seen any evidence of a crisis readiness team conducting any drills, tabletop exercises or simulations to stress test crisis plans?
   
   

8. Is your organization planning to acquire new technology to better plan for and manage crises that may arise in the future?
   
   

9. How confident are you that your organization planned well for crisis readiness in general prior to the current pandemic?
   
   

10. Has the current pandemic revealed a need for improving technology resources for predicting and managing a crisis?
    
    


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 GRC book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Requirements Documentation: Completeness. are all functions required by the customer included?
   
   

2. Quality Metrics: Is there alignment within your organization on definitions?
   
   

3. Activity Duration Estimates: Who has the PRIMARY responsibility to solve this problem?
   
   

4. Activity Duration Estimates: How does a IT GRC project life cycle differ from a product life cycle?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: Who is verifying the performance of the contract and approving payments?
   
   

6. Project Schedule: Eliminate unnecessary activities. Are there activities that came from a template or previous IT GRC project that are not applicable on this phase of this IT GRC project?
   
   

7. Lessons Learned: Who managed most of the communication within the IT GRC project?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: What mechanisms are proposed to monitor and measure IT GRC project performance in terms of social development outcomes?
   
   

9. Cost Baseline: Has the documentation relating to operation and maintenance of the product(s) or service(s) been delivered to, and accepted by, operations management?
   
   

10. Quality Management Plan: How do you decide what information needs to be recorded?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT GRC project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT GRC 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 GRC 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 GRC investments work better.

This IT GRC 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.