Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Contract Negotiation Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Contract Negotiation 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 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Contract Negotiation improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:
- Is the under performance a short term issue that may be swiftly resolved or is it a pervasive problem that will require careful investigation and negotiation with the contractual counter party?
- Is the expectation that you provide an approach and estimate for additional services related to contract negotiation support, implementation planning, and implementation delivery?
- Can the process of contract negotiations or even clarification be revealing about the practice itself, specifically in the case of a smaller group or for private practice?
- Did the contract negotiation process fully comply with established procedures and efficiently and effectively ensure that contract terms and fees were fairly negotiated?
- When and how should the implementing partner notify researchers about changes or aspects of the intervention that may have an impact on the analysis and results?
- Are there other transition policies that can be implemented to support program implementation, as supports for providers, care coordination staff, or others?
- Will the project utilize competitive selection procedures for tlid awarding of contracts, except , wliere applicable procurement rules allow otherwise?
- How does your technology support maintenance renewals, contract negotiations and ensuring customers are deriving best value from subscriptions?
- Do policies or practices include mechanisms to increase the contracting and contract negotiation capacity of partners when gaps are identified?
- Can the system generate a parts catalog by type of part or by current vendor with yearly usage to facilitate blanket contract negotiation?
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 Contract Negotiation book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Contract Negotiation Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Contract Negotiation project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Initiating Process Group: Do you know all the stakeholders impacted by the Contract Negotiation project and what needs are?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: What are the channels available for distribution to the customer?
- WBS Dictionary: Are overhead cost budgets established for each organization which has authority to incur overhead costs?
- Human Resource Management Plan: Are the people assigned to the Contract Negotiation project sufficiently qualified?
- Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its system for managing intellectual property issues is appropriately effective, constructive and fair?
- Procurement Management Plan: Are trade-offs between accepting the risk and mitigating the risk identified?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: In your opinion, do certain Contract Negotiation project resources hold a higher importance than other resources?
- Quality Management Plan: Checking the completeness and appropriateness of the sampling and testing. Were the right locations/samples tested for the right parameters?
- Project or Phase Close-Out: Who are the Contract Negotiation project stakeholders and what are roles and involvement?
- Human Resource Management Plan: Has a quality assurance plan been developed for the Contract Negotiation project?
Step-by-step and complete Contract Negotiation Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Contract Negotiation project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Contract Negotiation project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation project with this in-depth Contract Negotiation Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation 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 Contract Negotiation investments work better.
This Contract Negotiation 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.
