Best Value Toolkit

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Lead Best Value: partner with internal and external creative and brand resources to conceptualize, develop and execute high level brand awareness and partnership campaigns.

More Uses of the Best Value Toolkit:

  • Warrant that your organization determines and optimizes standards, processes and Best Practices; that creates synergies and standardization, in order to realize the Best Value for your organization while minimizing risk.

  • Support efforts to assess and enhance Strategic Sourcing processes across categories of suppliers, engaging existing and new vendors to negotiate Best Value, pricing and other relevant terms in contracts.

  • Collaborate with contract managers to aid procurement and management of key contracts and terms/ specification to secure Best Value and minimise costs/ risks.

  • Support customers in the adoption, installation, and initial configuration of Performance Engineering solutions, according to vendors Best Practices.

  • Adhere to and promote best software programming practices as coding standards, code and Design Review and test coverage.

  • Arrange that your group determines best means to deploy and support products, on a project basis, as they move from the Service Transition to Service Operation.

  • Devise Best Value: research and remain current on emerging tools, trends and platforms to develop strategies and Best Practices for potential implementation organization wide.

  • Develop, implement, and continually refine/improve Service Desk tools, standards and policies, incident and Problem Resolution procedures, and technical documentation to align IT Service Desk operations with Best Practices.

  • Develop and evaluate Data Modeling Best Practices, guidelines, and standards for Data Architecture.

  • Develop and implement Best Practices for Business Requirements, PMO standards, processes, and policies.

  • Devise Best Value: champion Design Thinking methodology, Data Driven decisions, and a Continuous Improvement mindset by deploying Best Practices and via regularly coaching of peers and colleagues.

  • Manage strategic relationships with vendors and professional organizations to remain current on Industry Trends and Best Practices for supported systems and businesses.

  • Govern Best Value: partner with business and product leaders to lead ongoing review of existing processes to enable consistent application of secure development Best Practices across the enterprise.

  • Arrange that your organization leads workshops with customers to demonstrate and account for technical functionality, application programming interfaces, and Best Practice.

  • Provide vital domain expertise and ensure implementation of Information security Architecture, Risk Management standards, Best Practices and systems/processes to ensure Information Privacy/protection.

  • Keep aware of changes to Regulatory Requirements and industry Best Practices to recommend updates to information Security Policies.

  • Arrange that your organization exports Best Practices and common risk, controls and Corrective Actions through Framework Papers.

  • Be able to put concepts into action; Activity Based Costing/management, Balanced Scorecard, bench marking techniques, Best Practices, Key Performance Indicators.

  • Ensure you administer; lead editorial team to help develop Best Practices for Future Success and growth.

  • Manage work with other managers to develop standards and processes, along with Best Practices, for the delivery of robust and scalable software solutions.

  • Follow MLOps Best Practices to develop and maintain Machine Learning pipelines that can automate the retraining and deployment of new Fraud Detection models.

  • Make sure that your corporation uses researched Best Practices and considers change from a system wide approach for improved Organization Effectiveness.

  • Pilot Best Value: leverage the existing tools, processes and Best Practices associated with application packaging that documented user requirements are satisfied.

  • Confirm your design ensures technical staff and business partners work towards the best design alternatives and solutions to meet agreed requirements.

  • Assure your project creates and/or optimizes designs for a solution or process based on user perspectives, design Best Practices, and/or Business Requirements.

  • Negotiate contracts, improved prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to makE Business savings utilising negotiation and procurement Best Practice tools and methods.

  • Identify Best Value: coach stakeholders at various organization levels from leadership and clients through team members on Agile Methodology and Best Practices.

  • Promote compliance with Regulatory Requirements and IT Best Practices, especially with respect to Project Management, Systems Development and Information security.

  • Maintain standards and practices for Content Development, while identifying new Best Practices to pursue.

  • Confirm your organization implements new risk policies, practices, appetites and solutions to ensure holistic understanding and management of risks according to industry Best Practice.

  • Confirm your organization ensures that service engagements provide appropriate value and satisfaction for clients.

  • Arrange that your enterprise complies; partners with operations and Quality Assurance teams to help conduct User Acceptance Testing for existing and new products, features and functionalities.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

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

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What is the Best ValuE Business impact?

  2. Are all requirements met?

  3. Are the assumptions believable and achievable?

  4. What are your Best Practices for minimizing Best Value project risk, while demonstrating incremental value and quick wins throughout the Best Value project lifecycle?

  5. Do staff qualifications match your project?

  6. Will a response program recognize when a crisis occurs and provide some level of response?

  7. What is the craziest thing you can do?

  8. Who is responsible for errors?

  9. What current systems have to be understood and/or changed?

  10. How do you stay inspired?


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 Best Value book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

  • 62 step-by-step Best Value Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Best Value 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 Best Value project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Best Value Project Team have enough people to execute the Best Value 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 Best Value 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 Best Value 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 Best Value 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 Best Value 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 Best Value project with this in-depth Best Value Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Best Value 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 Best Value 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 Best Value investments work better.

This Best Value 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.