Managing Operations Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Managing Operations 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 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Managing Operations improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. When evaluating a new product development project using net present value analysis, which will make the project more attractive?
   
   

2. Which security operations management best practice should be followed to enable appropriate network access for administrators?
   
   

3. Have you ever thought about the right methods to improve productivity, set the supply chain or meet the demand for the hand?
   
   

4. How much management influence should a contracting organization force on a contractor relative to operations management?
   
   

5. What are the variances in practice among organization departments that procure large scale construction services?
   
   

6. How to reconfigure the international manufacturing and supply networks from triple bottom line perspectives?
   
   

7. How do you better understand the role of manufacturing technology in your organizations business strategy?
   
   

8. What would be the cost of changing your organizations current process and what resistance can be expected?
   
   

9. Which MRP system input element specifies how many and when your organization plans to build each end item?
   
   

10. What is the menu of change management techniques in use and what has been the impact on cost and schedule?
    
    


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 Managing Operations book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Schedule Management Plan: Do Managing Operations project managers participating in the Managing Operations project know the Managing Operations projects true status first hand?
   
   

2. Quality Management Plan: How do senior leaders create and communicate values and performance expectations?
   
   

3. Variance Analysis: Are all cwbs elements specified for external reporting?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Are target dates established for each milestone deliverable?
   
   

5. Procurement Management Plan: Are actuals compared against estimates to analyze and correct variances?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Are meeting objectives identified for each meeting?
   
   

7. Risk Management Plan: What are the cost, schedule and resource impacts if the risk does occur?
   
   

8. Formal Acceptance: What lessons were learned about your Managing Operations project management methodology?
   
   

9. Activity Duration Estimates: Consider the history of modern quality management. How have experts such as Deming, Juran, Crosby, and Taguchi affected the quality movement and todays use of Six Sigma?
   
   

10. Procurement Management Plan: Does a documented Managing Operations project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Managing Operations project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Managing Operations project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Managing Operations 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 Managing Operations 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 Managing Operations 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 Managing Operations 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 Managing Operations project with this in-depth Managing Operations Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Managing Operations 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 Managing Operations 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 Managing Operations investments work better.

This Managing Operations 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.