Cost of Poor Quality Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Cost of Poor Quality 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 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cost of Poor Quality improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Is identity and confidentiality protected across the research, evaluation and monitoring cycle – including qualitative and quantitative data collection, data storage, analysis and reporting?
   
   

2. How do you gain comfort that your organizations logistics, operational assumptions, and inventory strategies continue to be relevant in an ever changing environment?
   
   

3. Does the adviser have policies, controls, and monitoring capabilities over the use of remote organization issued hardware and employee personal electronic devices?
   
   

4. Are there effective follow up procedures to ensure that appropriate modification or action occurs in response to changes in risk and control assessments?
   
   

5. What is being done to link beneficiaries to microfinance, training, skills development and and other longer term recovery and development interventions?
   
   

6. What would you estimate are the total internal and external identifiable current costs of compliance for your business as a percentage of total costs?
   
   

7. Does the contractors system provide unit costs, equivalent unit or lot costs in terms of labor, material, other direct, and indirect costs?
   
   

8. Do you have an insider threat management program for the prevention, detection and mitigation of, and response to, insider cyber risks?
   
   

9. What are the risk control criteria to be used in the assessment and mitigation of project failure, disruption and legal liability?
   
   

10. What is the capacity of systems to collecting the data and the system support collection and exchange and analysis of needed data?
    
    


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 Cost of Poor Quality book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


• 62 step-by-step Cost of Poor Quality Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Cost of Poor Quality project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Stakeholder Management Plan: Is documentation created for communication with the suppliers and vendors?
   
   

2. Initiating Process Group: The process to Manage Stakeholders is part of which process group?
   
   

3. Activity Duration Estimates: How do functionality, system outputs, performance, reliability, and maintainability requirements affect quality planning?
   
   

4. Initiating Process Group: Do you understand the communication expectations for this Cost of Poor Quality project?
   
   

5. Roles and Responsibilities: Are governance roles and responsibilities documented?
   
   

6. Source Selection Criteria: What benefits are accrued from issuing a DRFP in advance of issuing a final RFP?
   
   

7. Closing Process Group: What is the amount of funding and what Cost of Poor Quality project phases are funded?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: Is it tested periodically, whether your organizations way of handling tasks is competitive in relation to price and quality?
   
   

9. Cost Management Plan: Were Cost of Poor Quality project team members involved in detailed estimating and scheduling?
   
   

10. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are there procedures in place to effectively manage interdependencies with other Cost of Poor Quality projects / systems?


 
Step-by-step and complete Cost of Poor Quality Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cost of Poor Quality project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cost of Poor Quality project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Cost of Poor Quality 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 Cost of Poor Quality 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 Cost of Poor Quality 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 Cost of Poor Quality 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 Cost of Poor Quality project with this in-depth Cost of Poor Quality Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cost of Poor Quality 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 Cost of Poor Quality 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 Cost of Poor Quality investments work better.

This Cost of Poor Quality 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.