Center of Excellence Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Center of Excellence improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. What is the culture of the program, in terms of its commitment to excellence, its approaches to communication and problem solving, and past leadership styles?
   
   

2. How do you manage that desire for one of the performance zone businesses to move faster with sort of the inertia of the centralized operations?
   
   

3. How have you embedded the values and practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion in your organizational culture, structures, and processes?
   
   

4. Which approach would improve the availability and durability of the system while decreasing the processing latency and minimizing costs?
   
   

5. How does it actually impact your business model, either in terms of what growth you can aspire to versus and the kind of margins?
   
   

6. Which solution will provide a consistent user experience that will allow the application and database tiers to scalar?
   
   

7. What do you consider to be the most important elements of a security strategy to reduce the risk in your business?
   
   

8. What ITSM components is your organization looking to acquire and implement as part of the perspective ITSM tool?
   
   

9. Has your organization communicated a plan to address business continuity or disaster recovery in the cloud?
   
   

10. Which should the Cloud Center of Excellence team do to BEST address the requirements in a centralized way?
    
    


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 Center of Excellence book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Contractor Status Report: Who can list a Center of Excellence project as organization experience, your organization or a previous employee of your organization?
   
   

2. Quality Management Plan: How does your organization maintain a safe and healthy work environment?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: Has process improvement efforts been completed before requirements efforts begin?
   
   

4. Lessons Learned: What are your lessons learned that you will keep in mind for the next Center of Excellence project you participate in?
   
   

5. Quality Metrics: Is there a set of procedures to capture, analyze and act on quality metrics?
   
   

6. Risk Register: What is the appropriate level of risk management for this Center of Excellence project?
   
   

7. Scope Management Plan: Are enough systems & user personnel assigned to the Center of Excellence project?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Management Plan: What guidelines or procedures currently exist that must be adhered to (eg departmental accounting procedures)?
   
   

9. Source Selection Criteria: What documentation should be used to support the selection decision?
   
   

10. Team Directory: Process decisions: do job conditions warrant additional actions to collect job information and document on-site activity?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Center of Excellence project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 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 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 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 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 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 Center of Excellence project with this in-depth Center of Excellence Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose 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 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 Center of Excellence investments work better.

This 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.