Strategic Operations Toolkit

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Methodize Strategic Operations: proactively learn organization product, integrated product frameworks, APIs and code base.

More Uses of the Strategic Operations Toolkit:

  • Drive Strategic Operations: chief of staff, go to market Strategic Operations.

  • Confirm your venture performs Technical Analysis and provides Strategic Operations planning support and functional knowledge in area of expertise.

  • Expertise with business Intelligence Tools ( as Qlik, Tableau); designing, reporting and delivering analytical solutions; Data Management and warehousing; and the strategic use of information.

  • Evaluate Strategic Operations: research prospective customers and lead strategic outreach to select high value accounts.

  • Establish that your corporation develops and maintains Strategic Alliances with community leaders, key media, and local officials.

  • Drive divisional efficiency efforts as Application Portfolio management, corporate Performance Metrics, Strategic Planning or Portfolio management.

  • Ensure you produce; lead technical consideration, monitor requirements and Market Trends, provide strategic advice to influence Product Roadmap.

  • Ensure integration of the multiple Cloud Services platforms that contain your organizations strategic portfolio of Software Solutions.

  • Perform advanced level Project Management from project initiation through completion for strategic investments across the enterprise.

  • Confirm your group supports the Warehouse Management and Human Resources Management in collaboration with the you Management Team to achieve daily, weekly, monthly and annual organization goals through strategic vision, inspiration, and proper communication.

  • Assure your organization provides general advisory services to departmental administrators in the areas of budget, finance, management, Systems Analysis, procurement, industry and Market Research, Program Planning, Strategic Planning, and Organizational Development.

  • Be accountable for monitoring emerging Industry Trends to determine impact on the enterprise Solution Architecture and technology, and advising Strategic Direction.

  • Develop strategic and operational plans to achieve results and ensure alignment with organization goals and objectives through Training and Development initiatives.

  • Represent category for cross lob initiatives, as granularity of growth (investment profitability), to work with cross functional stakeholders to provide strategic guidance for the development of financial tools.

  • Be accountable for providing strategic budget oversight for departments/functions and holding management accountable for operating with the operating and capital budgets.

  • Drive client visits through strategic Client Communication and local Marketing Efforts.

  • Listen to the needs of the internal client or external customer to understand the broader context of issues that arise during Contract Negotiations and strategic initiatives.

  • Be certain that your planning engages in strategic Service Delivery planning, in partnership with the virtual account team, to strengthen targeted Customer Relationships.

  • Lead Strategic Operations: conduct qualitative and Quantitative Analysis in support of the development and delivery of Strategic Planning, Performance Management, and/or program evaluation.

  • Secure that your enterprise acts as a strategic leader, proactively identifying opportunities to improve the service of applications.

  • Warrant that your operation establishes and executes on vision and Strategic Objectives for the enterprise Risk Function in conjunction with the Chief Risk officers, to assure that your programs stage of maturity remains commensurate with the growing needs of your organization.

  • Confirm your organization leads the development of the IT Strategy and roadmap; ensures its integration with the enterprises Strategic Planning Process, and the resulting Business Strategy and plans.

  • Ensure your strategy contributes to strategic development and Operational Planning for international programs and your organization.

  • Partner with your Cross Functional Teams (Sales, Solution, Asset Managers, Delivery and Application development) to optimize your service, penetration of your organization strategic assets in your solutions and successful deployments of the assets and achieves the desired business results.

  • Provide a strategic point of view for threat monitoring and Incident Response operations that can be impacted by new technologies (cloud, mobility, virtualization), and Business Drivers (M and A, new business models).

  • Help build a Knowledge Base of specific strategic facts and competitive trends in marketing relevant to your clients and prospects.

  • Serve as member of the Corporate Talent Development and Human Resources team to design, develop, and implement strategic talent initiatives.

  • Strategize identify the top Cloud Architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of your organization.

  • Drive strategic initiatives and/or discrete projects on behalf of your CRO and the Executive Team.

  • Support your strategic and Financial Planning processes, quarterly financial forecasts, and annual plan.

  • Orchestrate Strategic Operations: work in a Cross Functional Team with sales, finance, operations and marketing to collect and analyze data and agree on cost data to support pricing models.

  • Become capable of reviewing requirements and design of Technical Specifications for industrial Control Systems (ICS) for electrical power grids.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Strategic Operations 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 Strategic Operations improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. If your customer were your grandmother, would you tell her to buy what you're selling?

  2. How does the team improve its work?

  3. How do you set Strategic Operations stretch targets and how do you get people to not only participate in setting these stretch targets but also that they strive to achieve these?

  4. What are the implications of the one critical Strategic Operations decision 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years from now?

  5. Do Strategic Operations benefits exceed costs?

  6. How do you plan on providing proper recognition and disclosure of supporting companies?   

  7. What is the Strategic Operations problem definition? What do you need to resolve?

  8. How can Risk Management be tied procedurally to process elements?

  9. What would be a real cause for concern?

  10. Does Strategic Operations analysis show the relationships among important Strategic Operations factors?


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 Strategic Operations book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Strategic Operations 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 Strategic Operations 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 Strategic Operations investments work better.

This Strategic Operations 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.