Cost Innovation Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Cost Innovation 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 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cost Innovation improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. Is your expectation that the selected vendor provides operational support services and/or operational improvements as part of a continuous improvement process during the engagement?
   
   

2. How can organizations keep security, privacy and resilience at the forefront in an environment where outsourcing and managed services are a growing priority?
   
   

3. How does this accrual of costs and benefits to non participating customers relate to the cost benefit analysis for the net metering program?
   
   

4. How do you create a data center that offers high availability, can scale to meet increasing customer demand, and yet is cost effective?
   
   

5. Do same cost and benefit elements apply to the evaluation of customer generation resources that are part of the net metering program?
   
   

6. Does use of digital technology and supply chain integration tools help improve organization performance and partner satisfaction?
   
   

7. How much of that time and money could been invested in development work to advance digital transformation initiatives faster?
   
   

8. Do you have requirements for data security, availability of data across multiple sites, scalability, and cost effectiveness?
   
   

9. Do you manufacture, distribute/supply, install, repair or maintain highly energy efficient heating & cooling systems?
   
   

10. Do you have a quality system in place that encourage continuous improvements that benefits all stakeholders involved?
    
    


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 Cost Innovation book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: Which does one need in order to complete schedule development?
   
   

2. Quality Audit: Are the intentions consistent with external obligations ( such as applicable laws)?
   
   

3. Quality Audit: Are adequate and conveniently located toilet facilities available for use by the employees?
   
   

4. Procurement Management Plan: Were Cost Innovation project team members involved in the development of activity & task decomposition?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: Are requisitions and other purchase requests batched to reduce the number of orders issued?
   
   

6. Cost Baseline: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?
   
   

7. Project Charter: Pop quiz – which are the same inputs as in the Cost Innovation project charter?
   
   

8. Lessons Learned: Was the user/client satisfied with the end product?
   
   

9. Activity List: How do you determine the late start (LS) for each activity?
   
   

10. Executing Process Group: Does the Cost Innovation project team have enough people to execute the Cost Innovation project plan?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cost Innovation project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cost Innovation project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Cost Innovation 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 Cost Innovation 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 Cost Innovation 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 Cost Innovation 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 Cost Innovation project with this in-depth Cost Innovation Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cost Innovation 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 Cost Innovation 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 Cost Innovation investments work better.

This Cost Innovation 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.