Ideation Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Ideation 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 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Ideation improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:

  1. What information did you receive from the client that will be most helpful in understanding the challenge and inspiring all of the teams executing creative ideas?

  2. What strategic capabilities best support key strategic products and services, and how do you measure and monitor fulfillment of target capabilities?

  3. Is your main challenge ideation and finding new ideas, rapid validation or is the real challenge successful scale up?

  4. What settings of the system can users adjust correctly and what settings should be determined for the user?

  5. Is there a well specified explanatory model showing how the intervention links to the outcome of interest?

  6. How do you manage the numerous and often conflicting governance requirements across the delivery process?

  7. Do you call it portfolio management, application portfolio management or enterprise portfolio management?

  8. How did the program enable participants to feel enough ownership over the process to stay fully engage?

  9. How can regulation better enable the use of people centered design practices for privacy communication?

  10. What success factors have other organizations experienced as a benefit of establishing an EA practice?


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 Ideation book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Human Resource Management Plan: Are non-critical path items updated and agreed upon with the teams?

  2. Schedule Management Plan: Are the primary and secondary schedule tools defined?

  3. Procurement Audit: Did you consider and evaluate alternatives, like bundling needs with other departments or grouping supplies in separate lots with different characteristics?

  4. Initiating Process Group: Do you understand the communication expectations for this Ideation project?

  5. Cost Management Plan: Are milestone deliverables effectively tracked and compared to Ideation project plan?

  6. Procurement Audit: Which are the main risks and controls of each phase?

  7. Procurement Audit: Is there no evidence of any external or superior pressure to reach a specific result?

  8. Requirements Management Plan: Do you have an agreed upon process for alerting the Ideation project Manager if a request for change in requirements leads to a product scope change?

  9. Procurement Audit: Can changes be made to automatic disbursement programs without proper approval of management?

  10. Executing Process Group: What are the Ideation project management deliverables of each process group?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Ideation project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Ideation 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 Ideation 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 Ideation investments work better.

This Ideation 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.