Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Master Data Governance Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Master Data Governance 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 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Master Data Governance improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:
- Is your organization made up of a collection of highly independent business units or is it dominated by strong, centralized governance and decision making?
- How to identify master data and its ownership and identify responsibilities for master data owners when same data is shared in many systems?
- How can internal audit provide the most value to management and the board of directors in governing structured and unstructured master data?
- How do you make the move to virtualization and cloud computing â quickly, cost efficiently, and with minimal disruption to the business?
- Which application would you recommend to improve the processing of accounts receivable and to reduce outstanding invoices?
- What controls need to be put in place for master data, and what level of change needs to be recorded over what timeframe?
- What are the standards and metrics for data quality with respect to accuracy, timeliness, completeness, and credibility?
- Which methods allow a customer to assign plan costs more accurately to the different activity types per cost center?
- How will managerial decision making be influenced by assumptions associated with data processing and analysis?
- Is the security plan accurately documented, is it sufficiently detailed, and are targets being met on time?
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 Master Data Governance book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Master Data Governance Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Master Data Governance project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Procurement Audit: Did your organization state the minimum requirements to be met by the variants in the tender documents?
- Activity Cost Estimates: Performance bond should always provide what part of the contract value?
- Schedule Management Plan: Was your organizations estimating methodology being used and followed?
- Team Performance Assessment: How do you encourage members to learn from each other?
- Team Directory: Decisions: is the most suitable form of contract being used?
- Variance Analysis: Who are responsible for overhead performance control of related costs?
- Cost Management Plan: Best practices implementation â How will change management be applied to this Master Data Governance project?
- Variance Analysis: Who are responsible for the establishment of budgets and assignment of resources for overhead performance?
- Lessons Learned: How effective were Best Practices & Lessons Learned from prior Master Data Governance projects utilized in this Master Data Governance project?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Have all documents been archived in a Master Data Governance project repository for each release?
Step-by-step and complete Master Data Governance Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Master Data Governance project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Master Data Governance project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance project with this in-depth Master Data Governance Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance 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 Master Data Governance investments work better.
This Master Data Governance 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.
