Future State Toolkit

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Lead Future State: facility operation apply technical knowledge and training to safely and efficiently operate facility equipment according to the production schedule and operating procedures.

More Uses of the Future State Toolkit:

  • Contribute with development and expansion of marketing channels, with specific attention to developments through Requirements Gathering, for the Future State of the Brand Portals.

  • Manage work with the Manufacturing Operations organization to develop Value Stream maps that establish Future State targets on elimination of non value added waste in product, material, and information flow.

  • Assure your planning assesses the current environment and makes Continuous Improvement to align with Future State architecture.

  • Warrant that your enterprise leads the development of Future StatE Business area architectures in an organized and cohesive manner using Enterprise Architecture frameworks, working proactively to creatE Business competitive advantage, focus on cost, and maximize design.

  • Manage work with the Value Stream organization to develop Value Stream maps that establish Future State targets on elimination of non value adding waste and reduction of Cycle Times.

  • Be certain that your strategy delivers measurablE Business Process Improvements, while re engineering key processes and capabilities and maps to Future State vision.

  • Head Future State: research, assess, evaluate and recommend new, upgraded and developing systems and technologies to determine suitability for current and future organization Enterprise Computing needs.

  • Collaborate with automation Engineering teams to automate cases and build a suite of Test Scripts to increase efficiency of future test cycles.

  • Provide leadership and direction and gathers input and influences business leaders to develop the short to long term strategy and annual information technology business plans, shaping the digital future needs for thE Business.

  • Devise Future State: proactively share shipping and logistics issues with the warehouse and logistics team to root cause and correct action in order prevent future charges.

  • Analyze departmental capital investment projects to ensure achievement of established objectives, and to validate assumptions for use in planning future projects.

  • Be accountable for assessing current and future organizational IT Capabilities and requirements.

  • Methodize Future State: development of Quality Control procedures and document process steps to support future automation and application environment management.

  • Develop techno economic models of potential processes to assess profitability and suggest future research paths.

  • Help specify market requirements for current and future products through Market Research supported by ongoing customer and channel feedback.

  • Make sure that your enterprise compares current and historical data to determine trends and anticipate future requirements.

  • Ensure that an agreed level of IT service is provided for all current IT Services, and that future services are delivered to agreed achievable targets.

  • Support the client by developing measures, testing and evaluating current and future simulation programs to enhance unit usage and realism.

  • Contribute to future Product Direction organizational decisions related to Software Platforms.

  • Coordinate Future State: without restrictions or need for future sponsorship.

  • Establish that your organization oversees the development, testing, implementation, and Continuous Improvement of new warehouse processes for current and future contracts.

  • Ensure you govern; understand sponsor strategy/plans and lead future work shaping.

  • Keep cross functional partners informed on category and navigation performance, using site analytics and Customer Feedback to help inform future development of the website and its content.

  • Foster positive customer sentiment for referrals, Social Interaction, future adoption, etc.

  • Drive Process Improvements through constant, iterative review of your Business Process architectures stability and scalability, developing lean workflows with high quality output, ensuring solutions meet current and future Business Objectives.

  • Ensure internal and client meetings are scheduled, productive, and documented for future reference.

  • Ensure your organization leads and coordinates the technical and business considerations relative to future architecture direction across multiple teams or complex Product Line.

  • Assure your organization analyzes impact of future topology changes in the environment.

  • Use historical and future talent supply Predictive Analytics to advise thE Business on location strategy, Organizational Design considerations and forecast time and impact to your organization.

  • Engage with external consumers of Open Data to ensure awareness of available data, solicit feedback on Data Quality and obtain new ideas for future data releases.

  • Formulate Future State: monitor the current state Solution Portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with Business Requirements.

  • Ensure you formulate; lead with expertise in deriving insights from big Data Analyses to solvE Business and technical problems.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Future State 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 Future State improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Against what alternative is success being measured?

  2. Who, on the executive team or the board, has spoken to a customer recently?

  3. What evidence is there and what is measured?

  4. How is the Future State Value Stream Mapping managed?

  5. Who is involved with workflow mapping?

  6. Who should receive measurement reports?

  7. Was a life-cycle Cost Analysis performed?

  8. What are the processes for audit reporting and management?

  9. Have all basic functions of Future State been defined?

  10. What are the estimated costs of proposed changes?


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 Future State book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Future State project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Future State Project Team have enough people to execute the Future State Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Future State Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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 Future State 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 Future State 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 Future State project with this in-depth Future State Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Future State 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 Future State 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 Future State investments work better.

This Future State 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.