Competitive Differentiation Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Competitive Differentiation 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 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Competitive Differentiation improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:

  1. What is the linkage between green innovations of your organization and its differentiation strategy in order to achieve sustainable competitive advantage?

  2. How do you assess your competitors business models in order to build best practices as well identify areas for differentiation for competitive advantage?

  3. Are you trying to build thought leadership, get the most followers possible, interact with customers and prospects, or generate engagement opportunities?

  4. What solution are you offering and how does it address the challenges, meet the goals, and overcome the obstacles/objections of your profiled customer?

  5. How do you use digital tools in your business to enhance the fundamental value equation for the customer and build competitive differentiation?

  6. Why would a licensee look to an independent, third party to support its enterprise software rather than continue to rely on the ERP vendor?

  7. What occurs when your organization can significantly impact its market share by being the first to market with a competitive advantage?

  8. How is long-run equilibrium different for monopolistically competitive organizations compared to perfectly competitive firms?

  9. Which marketing orientation assumes people will buy more goods and services if aggressive marketing techniques are used?

  10. How would you rate the importance of efficiency and sustainability to your organizations competitive differentiation?


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 Competitive Differentiation book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Human Resource Management Plan: Were sponsors and decision makers available when needed outside regularly scheduled meetings?

  2. Cost Management Plan: Have all involved Competitive Differentiation project stakeholders and work groups committed to the Competitive Differentiation project?

  3. Activity Duration Estimates: Is training acquired to enhance the skills, knowledge and capabilities of the Competitive Differentiation project team?

  4. Risk Register: What are your key risks/show istoppers and what is being done to manage them?

  5. Closing Process Group: What can you do better next time, and what specific actions can you take to improve?

  6. Procurement Management Plan: Have Competitive Differentiation project team accountabilities & responsibilities been clearly defined?

  7. Probability and Impact Assessment: What will be the environmental impact of the Competitive Differentiation project?

  8. Roles and Responsibilities: Does your vision/mission support a culture of quality data?

  9. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  10. Activity Attributes: Which method produces the more accurate cost assignment?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Competitive Differentiation project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Competitive Differentiation project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Competitive Differentiation 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 Competitive Differentiation 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 Competitive Differentiation 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 Competitive Differentiation 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 Competitive Differentiation project with this in-depth Competitive Differentiation Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Competitive Differentiation 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 Competitive Differentiation 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 Competitive Differentiation investments work better.

This Competitive Differentiation 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.