IT Sourcing Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT Sourcing 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 998 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 Sourcing improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:


1. What type of cloud services or resources is your organization currently using or considering using to support your organizations strategic business initiatives?
   
   

2. Do your organizations employ complex multi sourcing solutions driven by business unit demands to deliver the IT services?
   
   

3. What is the approach to ongoing design development and how is it integrated with the procurement approach?
   
   

4. Will the smaller departments have to facilitate the own process awareness sessions and the own training?
   
   

5. How has your organization used climate related scenarios to inform its strategy and financial planning?
   
   

6. What is the system for local contractors to make contact with your organizations end user departments?
   
   

7. Is the variance from targeted performance relevant to successful achievement of the goal or objective?
   
   

8. How are operational and whole of life cost considerations being reflected in the procurement strategy?
   
   

9. Do internal auditors have sufficient outsourcing knowledge and experience to provide the right input?
   
   

10. Do the metrics disclosed support your organizations scenario analysis and strategic planning process?
    
    


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 Sourcing book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Project or Phase Close-Out: Was the user/client satisfied with the end product?
   
   

2. Project Scope Statement: Is the IT Sourcing project sponsor function identified and defined?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: Are IT Sourcing project team members involved in detailed estimating and scheduling?
   
   

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

5. Project Management Plan: Are there any windfall benefits that would accrue to the IT Sourcing project sponsor or other parties?
   
   

6. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Feasibility: how much money, time, and effort can you put into this?
   
   

7. Stakeholder Management Plan: What methods are to be used for managing and monitoring subcontractors (eg agreements, contracts etc)?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: Are all mutilated and voided checks retained for proper accounting of pre-numbered checks?
   
   

9. Probability and Impact Assessment: Risk data quality assessment - what is the quality of the data used to determine or assess the risk?
   
   

10. Scope Management Plan: Are staffing resource estimates sufficiently detailed and documented for use in planning and tracking the IT Sourcing project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT Sourcing project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT Sourcing 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 Sourcing 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 Sourcing investments work better.

This IT Sourcing 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.