Open Data Strategy Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Open Data Strategy 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 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Open Data Strategy improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Does it include explicit provisions for publishing data in a standardised, structured, machine readable open data format that is free to use and reuse?
   
   

2. How to design and build a generalized cloud data virtualization application that can integrate internal organization data and external open data?
   
   

3. What could the role of intermediaries and partners be in helping organizations to create great environments for experimentation and development?
   
   

4. What is the strategy for using open datasets for decision making, developing new services and ensuring an open and enlightened democracy?
   
   

5. Is there benefit to using a framework to manage data and information at your organizational level to ensure data sharing capabilities?
   
   

6. How can organization leaders balance emerging principles of open data and efficient data reuse with protecting civil liberties?
   
   

7. Which other sectors will be asked to provide a similar threshold of data and are financial penalties also being considered?
   
   

8. What simple changes to internal policies and processes might make it easier for creative work with developers to occur?
   
   

9. Is the information accessible in a standardised, structured and open data format that facilitates analysis and reuse?
   
   

10. Are there certain groups of citizens that you may have underserved, in your journey to become a smart organization?
    
    


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 Open Data Strategy book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Change Request: Can you answer what happened, who did it, when did it happen, and what else will be affected?
   
   

2. Planning Process Group: To what extent do the intervention objectives and strategies of the Open Data Strategy project respond to your organizations plans?
   
   

3. Lessons Learned: For the next Open Data Strategy project, how could you improve on the way Open Data Strategy project was conducted?
   
   

4. Risk Management Plan: Market risk: will the new product be useful to your organization or marketable to others?
   
   

5. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: What do people write/say on status/Open Data Strategy project reports?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Have the funding arrangements been agreed where payments take place over several financial periods?
   
   

7. WBS Dictionary: Changes in the nature of the overhead requirements?
   
   

8. Change Request: Are there requirements attributes that are strongly related to the complexity and size?
   
   

9. Project Portfolio management: Why would the Governance Board want to know the status of the resource portfolio?
   
   

10. Lessons Learned: Who managed most of the communication within the Open Data Strategy project?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Open Data Strategy project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Open Data Strategy project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Open Data Strategy 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 Open Data Strategy 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 Open Data Strategy 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 Open Data Strategy 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 Open Data Strategy project with this in-depth Open Data Strategy Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Open Data Strategy 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 Open Data Strategy 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 Open Data Strategy investments work better.

This Open Data Strategy 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.