Design to Cost Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Design to Cost 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 Design to Cost improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:


1. Are you faced with the ever growing challenge to meet market demands for increased performance and features at a fast pace, while hitting design to cost goals?
   
   

2. How advanced and how standardized are your organizations design methods, as idea generation, specification reviews, benchmarking, or design to value?
   
   

3. How advanced and standardized are your organizations cost evaluation methods, as should cost models, regression analyses, or index tracking?
   
   

4. How effective are we, in your team, in getting out and using the ideas, opinions, and information of all team members in making decisions?
   
   

5. Should the contractor assume that the ground conditions were good, and free of obstructions and other services?
   
   

6. Is design to cost a more cost effective design strategy than the engineering design methodologies used herein?
   
   

7. Where are you making decisions on contribution margin and losing money when considering total product cost?
   
   

8. Who supplies the services, where are the nearest connections and what sizes and capacities are available?
   
   

9. Are cost objectives defined and consistent with requirements programmed and projected fiscal resources?
   
   

10. Are you satisfied with the way your organization creates impact through the intelligent use of data?
    
    


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


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Member Performance Assessment: What is used as a basis for instructional decisions?
   
   

2. Risk Audit: Do industry specialists and business risk auditors enhance audit reporting accuracy?
   
   

3. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Are the interests in line with the program objectives?
   
   

4. Requirements Management Plan: Is stakeholder risk tolerance an important factor for the requirements process in this Design to Cost project?
   
   

5. Communications Management Plan: Can you think of other people who might have concerns or interests?
   
   

6. WBS Dictionary: Are budgets or values assigned to work packages and planning packages in terms of dollars, hours, or other measurable units?
   
   

7. Human Resource Management Plan: Pareto diagrams, statistical sampling, flow charting or trend analysis used quality monitoring?
   
   

8. Procurement Management Plan: Have all documents been archived in a Design to Cost project repository for each release?
   
   

9. Human Resource Management Plan: What were things that you did very well and want to do the same again on the next Design to Cost project?
   
   

10. Activity List: How difficult will it be to do specific activities on this Design to Cost project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Design to Cost project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Design to Cost project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Design to Cost 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 Design to Cost 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 Design to Cost 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 Design to Cost 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 Design to Cost project with this in-depth Design to Cost Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Design to Cost 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 Design to Cost 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 Design to Cost investments work better.

This Design to Cost 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.