Vendor Governance Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Vendor Governance 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 Vendor Governance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Does it apply to devices, as commercial networking equipment, that might be intended by the vendors for enterprise customers and could be used by individual consumers?
   
   

2. Do you have sustainable processes and technology to ensure proper data governance, including line of business data access, data privacy, security and compliance?
   
   

3. Has the governance entity contracted with appropriate vendors for selected shared services, signed contracts, with service development underway?
   
   

4. Is there an estimate for when the needs assessment findings will be available to the strategic planning vendor?
   
   

5. Does internal audit ensure that your organizations risk governance framework complies with the guidelines?
   
   

6. What would the impact on your organization be if the information was disclosed in an unauthorised manner?
   
   

7. Are any specific social groups that may have a significant impact on, or be impacted by the marketplace?
   
   

8. What awareness is there of data governance enabling capabilities that have been purchased or developed?
   
   

9. What are the barriers that may prevent your organization from participating in the procurement process?
   
   

10. Are detailed and timely reports received that enable your organization to accurately monitor the plan?
    
    


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 Vendor Governance book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Schedule Management Plan: Are right task and resource calendars used in the IMS?
   
   

2. Change Management Plan: What are the current methods of sharing information and do there need to be new ones developed?
   
   

3. Lessons Learned: How effective was the documentation that you received with the Vendor Governance project product/service?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Has a provision been made to reassess Vendor Governance project risks at various Vendor Governance project stages?
   
   

5. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree does the team possess adequate membership to achieve its ends?
   
   

6. Project Schedule: If you can not fix it, how do you do it differently?
   
   

7. Risk Management Plan: Was an original risk assessment/risk management plan completed?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: Are obtained prices/qualities competitive to prices/qualities obtained by other procurement functions/units, comparing obtained or improved value for money?
   
   

9. Project Charter: Vendor Governance project deliverables: what is the Vendor Governance project going to produce?
   
   

10. Scope Management Plan: Are estimating assumptions and constraints captured?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Vendor Governance project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Vendor Governance project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Vendor Governance 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 Vendor Governance 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 Vendor Governance 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 Vendor Governance 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 Vendor Governance project with this in-depth Vendor Governance Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Vendor Governance 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 Vendor Governance 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 Vendor Governance investments work better.

This Vendor Governance 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.