Cost Model Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Cost Model 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 998 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 Model improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:


1. How do your cost models, budgets and funding strategies align with new goals of all stakeholders and allow for flexible adjustments and better tracking of spend?
   
   

2. How much program funding could potentially be freed up by implementing a more efficient supply chain design?
   
   

3. What specific cost management and cost reduction practices were being actively sponsored by top management?
   
   

4. Does your organization collect behavioural data on each customer to provide insight on your customer base?
   
   

5. Why would organizations hesitate to create a more profitable organization by building customer centricity?
   
   

6. Does a given activity, function or business unit add value to what you are offering your core customers?
   
   

7. What cost elements are associated with different levels of data center reliability and fault tolerance?
   
   

8. Does any trade, consumer or environmental legislation have an impact on the competition in the market?
   
   

9. What rack has adequate power, cooling and space to maintain the design efficiency of the data center?
   
   

10. Will your priority be analysis, to identify trends in customer preferences or to optimize operations?
    
    


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 Model book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Probability and Impact Assessment: What will be the likely political situation during the life of the Cost Model project?
   
   

2. WBS Dictionary: Are data elements summarized through the functional organizational structure for progressively higher levels of management?
   
   

3. Team Operating Agreement: Do you send out the agenda and meeting materials in advance?
   
   

4. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Key stakeholders to work with. How many potential communications channels exist on the Cost Model project?
   
   

5. Quality Management Plan: Does the program use modeling in the permitting or decision-making processes?
   
   

6. Quality Audit: What data about organizational performance is routinely collected and reported?
   
   

7. Schedule Management Plan: Has your organization readiness assessment been conducted?
   
   

8. Planning Process Group: When developing the estimates for Cost Model project phases, you choose to add the individual estimates for the activities that comprise each phase. What type of estimation method are you using?
   
   

9. Human Resource Management Plan: Have process improvement efforts been completed before requirements efforts begin?
   
   

10. Activity Cost Estimates: What areas does the group agree are the biggest success on the Cost Model project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Cost Model project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Cost Model 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 Model 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 Model 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 Model 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 Model 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 Model project with this in-depth Cost Model Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Cost Model 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 Model 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 Model investments work better.

This Cost Model 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.