Business Analytics Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. How does oracle analytics cloud enable organizations to access business analytics more quickly and effectively compared to other products?
   
   

2. Are you using any kind of business analytics tools to try to detect how well the system is enforcing the rules or for any other purpose?
   
   

3. How do you develop a modern file transfer system to seamlessly accommodate large document sharing in and outside of your organization?
   
   

4. Do you believe that business analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence tools will become more pressing and prevalent?
   
   

5. Which objects do you design as an administrator in the business analytics work center in SAP Hybris Cloud for customer?
   
   

6. What actions is internal audit taking to obtain skill sets aligned to your organizations most significant risks?
   
   

7. How do you create a program of continuous learning that lets the entire organization exploit what BI offers?
   
   

8. What is the return on investment for the technology, delivery model, security, and data integration methods?
   
   

9. Where within your organization does responsibility for managing customer engagement and relationships lie?
   
   

10. Has human services effectively identified and recorded issues arising from quality measures and processes?
    
    


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 Business Analytics book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Quality Management Plan: How are data handled when a test is not run per specification?
   
   

2. Team Directory: How do unidentified risks impact the outcome of the Business Analytics project?
   
   

3. Scope Management Plan: Organizational unit (e.g., department, team, or person) who will accept responsibility for satisfactory completion of the item?
   
   

4. Procurement Audit: Does the procurement function/unit have the ability to apply public procurement principles and to prepare tender and contract documents?
   
   

5. Human Resource Management Plan: Is the Business Analytics project sponsor clearly communicating the business case or rationale for why this Business Analytics project is needed?
   
   

6. Activity List: What is the total time required to complete the Business Analytics project if no delays occur?
   
   

7. Project Performance Report: To what degree can team members frequently and easily communicate with one another?
   
   

8. Change Request: Which requirements attributes affect the risk to reliability the most?
   
   

9. Project or Phase Close-Out: What advantages do the an individual interview have over a group meeting, and vice-versa?
   
   

10. Schedule Management Plan: Are meeting minutes captured and sent out after the meeting?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Business Analytics project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Business Analytics project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Business Analytics 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 Business Analytics 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 Business Analytics 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 Business Analytics 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 Business Analytics project with this in-depth Business Analytics Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Business Analytics 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 Business Analytics 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 Business Analytics investments work better.

This Business Analytics 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.