ITGC Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Does your organization maintain adequate controls in its information technology system to protect against unauthorized access, disclosure and transfer of ITAR controlled technical data and software?
   
   

2. Do plans incorporate an appropriate range of audit types including compliance, financial audits, payroll audits, system including information technology audits, forensic and performance audits?
   
   

3. Are there unusual financial trends or relationships identified in the past and potential role of weak information technology controls that could play in enabling fraudulent activity to occur?
   
   

4. Do agreements with suppliers include requirements to address the information security risks associated with the information and communications technology services and products supply chain?
   
   

5. Is any of that related to the information system that is been set up or is there anything in the new technology that will alleviate that problem that is been brought forward?
   
   

6. Does your organizations development processes for information technology applications require software to incorporate appropriate input and output validation controls?
   
   

7. How can managed service providers, technology, and information security leaders within smb markets build a program that can quickly recapture costs and poor decisions?
   
   

8. Are you using your information technology infrastructure in a cost effective manner to measure and report on key controls needed for compliance?
   
   

9. Do the training programs cited in the PSM policies and guidelines make safety information an integral part of your organizations business?
   
   

10. Does management have an inadequate understanding of information technology which enables IT employees to perpetrate a misappropriation?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Planning Process Group: When developing the estimates for ITGC project phases, you choose to add the individual estimates for the activities that comprise each phase. What type of estimation method are you using?
   
   

2. WBS Dictionary: Contemplated overhead expenditure for each period based on the best information currently available?
   
   

3. Human Resource Management Plan: Is there any form of automated support for Issues Management?
   
   

4. Risk Register: Does the evidence highlight any areas to advance opportunities or foster good relations. If yes what steps will be taken?
   
   

5. Variance Analysis: Are estimates of costs at completion generated in a rational, consistent manner?
   
   

6. Probability and Impact Matrix: Does the ITGC project team have experience with the technology to be implemented?
   
   

7. Cost Management Plan: Is current scope of the ITGC project substantially different than that originally defined?
   
   

8. Team Member Status Report: Does the product, good, or service already exist within your organization?
   
   

9. Planning Process Group: On which process should team members spend the most time?
   
   

10. Scope Management Plan: Does the title convey to the reader the essence of the ITGC project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 ITGC project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 ITGC project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose ITGC 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 ITGC 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 ITGC investments work better.

This ITGC 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.