Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Operational Readiness Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:
- How does operational readiness influence the design of IT project and portfolio management strategies, and are there any specific project or portfolio management strategies that need to be developed or modified to support operational readiness?
- How does operational readiness influence the ability to leverage incident and problem management data and insights to drive business intelligence and analytics, and what are the implications for business decision-making and strategic planning?
- How does operational readiness influence the design of IT communication and collaboration strategies, and are there any specific communication or collaboration tools that need to be developed or modified to support operational readiness?
- How does operational readiness influence the development of a knowledge sharing plan to disseminate lessons learned and best practices across the organization, and are there any specific knowledge sharing mechanisms that should be used?
- What are the critical operational readiness factors that impact the effectiveness of communication and stakeholder management during incident and problem resolution, and how do these factors influence customer satisfaction and loyalty?
- How does operational readiness affect the ability to leverage incident and problem management data and insights to drive business decisions and strategic planning, and what are the implications for business outcomes and revenue growth?
- What are the key operational readiness considerations for ensuring that incident and problem management processes are aligned with business objectives and outcomes, and how do these considerations impact service value and relevance?
- How does operational readiness influence the ability to identify and leverage opportunities for process automation and orchestration in incident and problem management, and what are the implications for efficiency and productivity?
- How does operational readiness affect the ability to identify and prioritize opportunities for incident and problem management process improvements, and what are the implications for continuous improvement and service innovation?
- What are the critical operational readiness factors that influence the effectiveness of root cause analysis and corrective action implementation, and how do these factors impact the long-term reduction of incidents and problems?
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 Operational Readiness book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Operational Readiness Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Operational Readiness project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Team Operating Agreement: Methodologies: how will key team processes be implemented, such as training, research, work deliverable production, review and approval processes, knowledge management, and meeting procedures?
- Resource Breakdown Structure: What is the purpose of assigning and documenting responsibility?
- Planning Process Group: How do you integrate Operational Readiness project Planning with the Iterative/Evolutionary SDLC?
- Quality Management Plan: Diagrams and tables to account for complex concepts and increase overall readability?
- Formal Acceptance: General estimate of the costs and times to complete the Operational Readiness project?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: Have customers been involved fully in the definition of requirements?
- Risk Register: Amongst the action plans and recommendations that you have to introduce are there some that could stop or delay the overall program?
- Probability and Impact Assessment: Can the risk be avoided by choosing a different alternative?
- Source Selection Criteria: Is the contracting office likely to receive more purchase requests for this item or service during the coming year?
- Closing Process Group: How dependent is the Operational Readiness project on other Operational Readiness projects or work efforts?
Step-by-step and complete Operational Readiness Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Operational Readiness project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Operational Readiness project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness project with this in-depth Operational Readiness Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness 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 Operational Readiness investments work better.
This Operational Readiness 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.
