Business Control Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


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

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. Does the solution allow business rules to be created, modified and deleted to determine how workflow related data is to be processed, routed, tracked, and controlled for a given task or activity?
   
   

2. What steps have you taken within the finance function to avoid a complexity of disparate systems, an excessive number of spreadsheets and a multitude of different process and controls?
   
   

3. How can digital drivers of success as personalization of products, self control of systems, platform architectures or artificial intelligence be used systematically?
   
   

4. What do you do to improve the employee experience while ensuring your organization gets the data it needs to quickly adapt to change and stay in control of finances?
   
   

5. How are the possibilities of creating value affected by the design and use of the control systems at the corporate and business unit levels, respectively?
   
   

6. What is any business or documentary procedures, controls or conventions governing the way in which information can be updated, amended, deleted?
   
   

7. Is the control message driven down through your organization and associated problems and ideas communicated upwards and across the business?
   
   

8. Which control mechanism or method can the project manager use to still get the project completed on time without over scheduling resources?
   
   

9. What merger control rules and filing requirements govern the acquisition of distressed businesses and assets in your jurisdiction?
   
   

10. Does the board receive regular independent assurance on the effectiveness of the business risk management framework and controls?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Do Business Control project managers participating in the Business Control project know the Business Control projects true status first hand?
   
   

2. Risk Audit: Do you have position descriptions for all key paid and volunteer positions in your organization?
   
   

3. Project Scope Statement: Will the risk status be reported to management on a regular and frequent basis?
   
   

4. Assumption and Constraint Log: After observing execution of process, is it in compliance with the documented Plan?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Who is responsible for monitoring the Business Control project scope to ensure the Business Control project remains within the scope baseline?
   
   

6. Procurement Management Plan: Was your organizations estimating methodology being used and followed?
   
   

7. Source Selection Criteria: Do you consider all weaknesses, significant weaknesses, and deficiencies?
   
   

8. Project Scope Statement: Has a method and process for requirement tracking been developed?
   
   

9. Executing Process Group: How do you prevent staff are just doing busywork to pass the time?
   
   

10. Schedule Management Plan: Has process improvement efforts been completed before requirements efforts begin?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Business Control project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Business Control 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 Control 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 Control 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 Control 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 Control 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 Control project with this in-depth Business Control Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Business Control 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 Control 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 Control investments work better.

This Business Control 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.