IT Strategy: How can you enable your customers and employees to work more efficiently and also deliver greater customer value?

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

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

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The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated IT Strategy specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with…

The latest quick edition of the IT Strategy 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 640 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 Strategy improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 640 standard requirements:

Do we obtain it performance reports illustrating the value of it from a business driver perspective (Customer Service, cost, agility, quality, etc.)?
Has it re-engineered or redesigned processes, and leveraged technologies to improve responsiveness, Customer Service and customer satisfaction?
An IT Strategy or Steering Group carries the overall accountability for setting governance, direction, policy and strategy for IT Services?
Does the target infrastructure and SOA approach need to be in line with other IT strategy / Enterprise architecture framework(s)?
How can the maturity of an organizations strategic alignment impact its ability to execute an effective strategy?
Customer perspective: how do your customers perceive you in term of products, services, relationships and value-added?
How can the maturity of an organizations strategic alignment impact its ability to execute an it strategy?
In other areas, even within your own department, Is there a clear understanding of what business architecture means?
How can you enable your customers and employees to work more efficiently and also deliver greater customer value?
Commit strategy – does each application program issue sql commit statements to minimize the impact of locking?

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 Strategy book in PDF containing 640 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in…

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

62 step-by-step IT Strategy Project Management Form Templates covering over 6000 IT Strategy project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

Lessons Learned: Why does the organization need a lessons learned (LL) capability?
Executing Process Group: How does a IT Strategy project life cycle differ from a product life cycle?
Change Management Plan: How might they respond to the message and if the response may be negative or open to misinterpretation, what else needs to be said?
WBS Dictionary: Does the cost accumulation system provide for summarization of indirect costs from the point of allocation to the contract total?
WBS Dictionary: Does the contractor use objective results, design reviews and tests to trace schedule performance?
Lessons Learned: How effective was the acceptance management process?
Human Resource Management Plan: Have all involved IT Strategy project stakeholders and work groups committed to the IT Strategy project?
Stakeholder Management Plan: Are there checklists created to demine if all quality processes are followed?
Cost Estimating Worksheet: Does the IT Strategy project provide innovative ways for stakeholders to overcome obstacles or deliver better outcomes?
Probability and Impact Assessment: How would you suggest monitoring for risk transition indicators?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

1.1 IT Strategy project Charter
1.2 Stakeholder Register
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix

2.0 Planning Process Group:

2.1 IT Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy project with this in-depth IT Strategy Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

Diagnose IT Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy investments work better.

This IT Strategy All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person: