Competitor Analysis Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Competitor Analysis 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 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Competitor Analysis improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. How do you build competitive advantages in your organization environment with almost no barriers to entry, tremendous transparency, and almost perfect competition?
   
   

2. What are the most important features of current solutions to help you evaluate competitors positioning and decide where to position your product?
   
   

3. Are you looking to expand your customer base by a certain percentage or maybe prevent the loss of existing customers to competitors?
   
   

4. What data should be reported to extend the value of publicly available, regulatory reports to inform market analysis and research?
   
   

5. Are you differentiating your business from competitors by highlighting the quality in your products, practices and supply chains?
   
   

6. Do your personnel have the drive and skill to mount counter strategies to defend itself against the attack of a major competitor?
   
   

7. What other challenges arise from complex supplier/competitor relationships, standards, and other aspects of a globalized market?
   
   

8. Have you ever wondered how search engines get the information about web pages, the content, updates, and links to other sites?
   
   

9. Does your site communicate why your organization is the best fit for your prospects in a way that stands out from competitors?
   
   

10. Has the customer, or a competitor, experienced a security breach associated with the clients personal information?
    
    


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 Competitor Analysis book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: Are procedures established on how orders will be shipped?
   
   

2. Probability and Impact Matrix: What will be the likely political environment during the life of the Competitor Analysis project?
   
   

3. Variance Analysis: Are your organizations and items of cost assigned to each pool identified?
   
   

4. Risk Register: How often will the Risk Management Plan and Risk Register be formally reviewed, and by whom?
   
   

5. Milestone List: Describe your organizations strengths and core competencies. What factors will make your organization succeed?
   
   

6. Cost Management Plan: Will the earned value reporting interface between time and cost management?
   
   

7. Change Request: Are there requirements attributes that are strongly related to the occurrence of defects and failures?
   
   

8. Requirements Management Plan: Will the Competitor Analysis project requirements become approved in writing?
   
   

9. Cost Management Plan: Scope of work – What is the scope of work for each of the planned contracts?
   
   

10. Executing Process Group: Does the Competitor Analysis project team have enough people to execute the Competitor Analysis project plan?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Competitor Analysis project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Competitor Analysis project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Competitor Analysis 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 Competitor Analysis 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 Competitor Analysis 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 Competitor Analysis 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 Competitor Analysis project with this in-depth Competitor Analysis Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Competitor Analysis 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 Competitor Analysis 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 Competitor Analysis investments work better.

This Competitor Analysis 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.