Wide Area Network Toolkit

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Design, configure, monitor, maintain, manage and optimize local and Wide Area Networks and networking equipment for optimal performance, maximum availability, minimal maintenance, and reasonable costs.

More Uses of the Wide Area Network Toolkit:

  • Organize: Wide Area Network (WAN), and internet systems or a segment of a network system.

  • Evaluate: operational characteristics of local and Wide Area Network systems.

  • Ensure your project complies; administrators, Wide Area Network.

  • Guide: Enterprise IT architectures, IP networking, local and Wide Area Networks, routing, switching.

  • Manage, monitor, and support IT infrastructure across numerous Local Area Network and several Wide Area Networks.

  • Support projects to upgrade, modernize and support the migration of a Wide Area Network (WAN) Communications Infrastructure.

  • Orchestrate: design develop, test, implement, deploy, and maintain Wide Area Networks.

  • Establish: current techniques and capabilities of personal computers, Local Area Networks, and Wide Area Networks.

  • Develop: Wide Area Network Technology provisioning and configuration.

  • Devise: wide variety of networking equipment.

  • Confirm your design oversees the installation, configuration, and support to a Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, internet system, computers, desktops and/or mobile devices.

  • Configure and administer Database Replication between servers, across Local Area Network and Wide Area Network for High Availability and Disaster Recovery.

  • Drive: Wide Area Network (WAN) troubleshooting.

  • Systematize: operational characteristics of local and Wide Area Networks.

  • Orchestrate: review, monitor, upgrade and integrate into existing local and Wide Area Networks.

  • Guide: expert level knowledge in network and Wide Area Network Routing and switching solutions.

  • Perform Systems Administration of server systems connected to local and Wide Area Networks.

  • Datacenter architecture, fault domains, Wide Area Networking.

  • Pilot: design, configure, maintain and manage Network Security features for local and Wide Area Networks.

  • Install, maintain, and monitor the operation of the local and Wide Area Network.

  • Steer: design and perform integration of new technologies into local and Wide Area Networks.

  • Supervise: research and design Wide Area Network either as new network or to modify existing networks.

  • Formulate: local and Wide Area Network Technologies.

  • Make sure that your strategy leads the installation, maintenance, monitoring and modification of your organizations local and remote Wide Area Network system.

  • Integrate compute and Data Access over Wide Area Networks.

  • Develop: Wide Area Network (WAN) protocols.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Wide Area Network 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 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Wide Area Network improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Where is the data coming from to measure compliance?

  2. Scope of sensitive information?

  3. What are your current levels and trends in key Wide Area Network measures or indicators of product and Process Performance that are important to and directly serve your customers?

  4. Risk factors: what are the characteristics of Wide Area Network that make IT risky?

  5. What are the Wide Area Network investment costs?

  6. Are there any activities that you can take off your to do list?

  7. What are the business goals Wide Area Network is aiming to achieve?

  8. What is the problem and/or vulnerability?

  9. Do your leaders quickly bounce back from setbacks?

  10. Where is training needed?


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 Wide Area Network book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Wide Area Network project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Wide Area Network Project Team have enough people to execute the Wide Area Network Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Wide Area Network Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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 Wide Area Network 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 Wide Area Network 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 Wide Area Network project with this in-depth Wide Area Network Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Wide Area Network 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 Wide Area Network 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 Wide Area Network investments work better.

This Wide Area Network 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.