Analytics Center of Excellence Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Analytics Center of Excellence 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 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Analytics Center of Excellence improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:

  1. What are the primary factors that make software cost estimation challenging and what can be done to improve your cost estimates and accurately track the progress of Agile software development?

  2. What is compensation that will or may be paid or provided by Humana to its named executive officers in connection with the merger and why are you being asked to vote on it?

  3. Will it be integrated directly into core tools for customer relationship management and pricing, or will it be an additional tool or overlay to current processes?

  4. Is analytics simply a marketing term applied to statistical techniques run against big data or is the analysis of big data fundamentally different?

  5. What steps should you take to ensure that your data collection and usage is transparent, easy to understand, and acceptable to your customers?

  6. How can a relationship oriented organization transition to fact based decision making one without compromising its identity?

  7. How can advanced analytics give better and faster predictions, especially when the window for decisionmaking is small?

  8. When faced with the need to do more with less, how do you effectively derive insights from the deluge of big data?

  9. Does the team have sufficient resources to engage in a mobile data collection, reporting, and analysis effort?

  10. How do you bring all your relevant sales and marketing information together for planning and decision making?


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 Analytics Center of Excellence book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

  • 62 step-by-step Analytics Center of Excellence Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Analytics Center of Excellence project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the main types of contracts if you do decide to outsource?

  2. Probability and Impact Matrix: Were there any Analytics Center of Excellence projects similar to this one in existence?

  3. Project Portfolio management: Agility. how do organizations re-align portfolio when strategic objectives change?

  4. Executing Process Group: Just how important is your work to the overall success of the Analytics Center of Excellence project?

  5. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Identify the stakeholders levels most frequently used –or at least sought– in your Analytics Center of Excellence projects and for which purpose?

  6. Quality Audit: Are storage areas and reconditioning operations designed to prevent mix-ups and assure orderly handling of both the distressed and reconditioned devices?

  7. Probability and Impact Assessment: Risks should be identified during which phase of Analytics Center of Excellence project management life cycle?

  8. Change Request: How do you get changes (code) out in a timely manner?

  9. Project Performance Report: To what degree will the team adopt a concrete, clearly understood, and agreed-upon approach that will result in achievement of the teams goals?

  10. Team Performance Assessment: Lack of method variance in self-reported affect and perceptions at work: Reality or artifact?

 
Step-by-step and complete Analytics Center of Excellence Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Analytics Center of Excellence project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Analytics Center of Excellence project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Analytics Center of Excellence 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 Analytics Center of Excellence 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 Analytics Center of Excellence 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 Analytics Center of Excellence 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 Analytics Center of Excellence project with this in-depth Analytics Center of Excellence Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Analytics Center of Excellence 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 Analytics Center of Excellence 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 Analytics Center of Excellence investments work better.

This Analytics Center of Excellence 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.