Open Data Toolkit

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Coordinate with data custodians, Data Stewards and other support teams regarding app operations, Data Quality in the app, data demand / consumption requirements, and Open Data Quality exceptions / issues.

More Uses of the Open Data Toolkit:

  • Explore Data Warehousing and Master Data Management to lead an effective transparency and Open Data practice which generates a credible resource for organization, staff, and the public.

  • Ensure you exceed; lead vision for organizationwide Open Data and Performance Measurement programs.

  • Supervise: Open Data initiative establishing a policy and practice that would allow organization generated data to be viewed, used, and redistributed by anyone.

  • Establish guidelines for licensing Open Data sets released by your organization.

  • Lead: Open Data and Citizen Engagement.

  • Ensure you improve; applied expertise working with public Health Information Systems, Open Data sources, and Data Standards.

  • Be accountable for building an Open Data catalogue that is compliant with project Open Data specifications.

  • Warrant that your planning creates visualizations for Open Data portal.

  • Ensure continued operations of your organizations comprehensive Open Data program.

  • Collaborate across departments to provide Data Governance, policies, and practices for publishing Open Data.

  • Engage with departments and stakeholders across your organization to communicate the importance of Open Data, analytics, and internal Data Sharing for better services and Decision Making.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Open Data 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 Open Data improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. How do you foster the skills, knowledge, talents, attributes, and characteristics you want to have?

  2. How have you defined all Open Data Requirements first?

  3. How likely is the current Open Data plan to come in on schedule or on budget?

  4. Are you making progress, and are you making progress as Open Data leaders?

  5. What have you done to protect your business from competitive encroachment?

  6. What harm might be caused?

  7. What are your operating costs?

  8. Is the Open Data scope complete and appropriately sized?

  9. What other organizational variables, as reward systems or Communication Systems, affect the performance of this Open Data process?

  10. How do you catch Open Data definition inconsistencies?


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 Open Data book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

  • 62 step-by-step Open Data Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Open Data 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 Open Data project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Open Data Project Team have enough people to execute the Open Data 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 Open Data 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 Open Data 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 Open Data 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 Open Data 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 Open Data project with this in-depth Open Data Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Open Data 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 Open Data 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 Open Data investments work better.

This Open Data 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.