Center of Excellence Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Center of Excellence 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Center of Excellence improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Does moving from traditional enterprise software to cloud based open source platforms help you free from the stronghold of large enterprise technology companies?
   
   

2. What is the culture of the program, in terms of its commitment to excellence, its approaches to communication and problem solving, and past leadership styles?
   
   

3. Which approach would improve the availability and durability of the system while decreasing the processing latency and minimizing costs?
   
   

4. Which solution will provide a consistent user experience that will allow the application and database tiers to scalar?
   
   

5. How many organizations have sought to gain intelligence rather than using assumptions to formulate improvement plans?
   
   

6. Are you concerned about the health of your application APIs and other vulnerabilities found at application level?
   
   

7. What itsm components is your organization looking to acquire and implement as part of the perspective itsm tool?
   
   

8. What are the hardware and infrastructure challenges and can it be costly to implement RPA Center of Excellence?
   
   

9. Has your organization communicated a plan to address business continuity or disaster recovery in the cloud?
   
   

10. Do major issues justify revamping parts of the communication process before proceeding to a larger rollout?
    
    


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 Center of Excellence book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


• 62 step-by-step Center of Excellence Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Center of Excellence project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Operating Agreement: How do you want to be thought of and known within your organization?
   
   

2. Activity List: How do you determine the late start (LS) for each activity?
   
   

3. Source Selection Criteria: What is the effect of the debriefing schedule on potential protests?
   
   

4. Quality Audit: Are all areas associated with the storage and reconditioning of devices clean, free of rubbish, adequately ventilated and in good repair?
   
   

5. Initiating Process Group: Just how important is your work to the overall success of the Center of Excellence project?
   
   

6. Closing Process Group: How dependent is the Center of Excellence project on other Center of Excellence projects or work efforts?
   
   

7. Team Operating Agreement: Do you ask participants to close laptops and place mobile devices on silent on the table while the meeting is in progress?
   
   

8. Activity Duration Estimates: Why is there a new or renewed interest in the field of Center of Excellence project management?
   
   

9. Project Performance Report: To what degree are the members clear on what they are individually responsible for and what they are jointly responsible for?
   
   

10. Human Resource Management Plan: Is your organization primarily focused on a specific industry?


 
Step-by-step and complete Center of Excellence Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Center of Excellence project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Center of Excellence project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Center of Excellence 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 Center of Excellence 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 Center of Excellence 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 Center of Excellence 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 Center of Excellence project with this in-depth Center of Excellence Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Center of Excellence 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 Center of Excellence 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 Center of Excellence investments work better.

This Center of Excellence 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.