Data Standards Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Data Standards 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 Data Standards improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. How do you balance the requirement to deliver high value results at a reasonable cost with the need to provide opportunities to sub contractors in an open, fair, transparent and accessible manner?
   
   

2. How does your organization promote and maintain positive long term relationships with individual and/or groups of suppliers to deliver innovative, value added and timely services to your clients?
   
   

3. How do you consistently ensure that the appropriate authorities, consent and social licence are in place for the collection, use and disclosure of the data for intended purposes?
   
   

4. What are the most collaborative and effective performance measurement regimes you have encountered in public and private sector solicitations for real property service delivery?
   
   

5. Should the text file format be the only one that is the standard or should maybe the binary format or the database format or the spreadsheet layout become a part of it?
   
   

6. Is it safe to assume that data quality checks and possibly data standardization rules will be required during the process of ingestion of data from another health plan?
   
   

7. Should a consumer be able to amend consent for direct marketing or research in the same way as amending consent for use of data in the provision of goods and services?
   
   

8. How do you organize, prepare and equip your internal workforce to input into and/or support your clients business and investment decision making processes?
   
   

9. How might companies approaching data sharing identify whether a particular data standard is right given data holdings and research data sharing intentions?
   
   

10. Do you manage the different information and reporting requirements of multiple clients through a common suite of technology solutions and if so, how?
    
    


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 Data Standards book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Directory: Process decisions: do invoice amounts match accepted work in place?
   
   

2. Milestone List: What would happen if a delivery of material was one week late?
   
   

3. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are there checklists created to demine if all quality processes are followed?
   
   

4. Scope Management Plan: Has the Data Standards project approach and development strategy of the Data Standards project been defined, documented and accepted by the appropriate stakeholders?
   
   

5. Risk Management Plan: Is there additional information that would make you more confident about your analysis?
   
   

6. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are the schedule estimates reasonable given the Data Standards project?
   
   

7. Quality Management Plan: After observing execution of process, is it in compliance with the documented Plan?
   
   

8. Assumption and Constraint Log: Does the traceability documentation describe the tool and/or mechanism to be used to capture traceability throughout the life cycle?
   
   

9. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: How were collaborations developed, and how are they sustained?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: Are Data Standards project management tools and techniques consistently applied throughout all Data Standards projects?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Data Standards project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Data Standards project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Data Standards 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 Data Standards 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 Data Standards 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 Data Standards 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 Data Standards project with this in-depth Data Standards Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Data Standards 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 Data Standards 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 Data Standards investments work better.

This Data Standards 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.