Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Simplification and Cost Optimization Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Simplification and Cost Optimization improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:
- Should businesses be differentiated by size, or in any other way, when considering whether using accounts depreciation as the basis for relief for capital expenditure would be a simplification?
- How to maximise the introduction of network automation and access to APIs assist with agility, simplification of processes and requirements to upskill resources?
- Which technique is used in finding a solution for optimizing a given objective, as profit maximization or cost reduction under certain constraints?
- Is there a way that you can keep the optimality guarantee of uniform cost search and also get the efficiency benefits of greedy best first search?
- What means do you use to communicate step by step engineering processes when making a critical decision that involves other engineers?
- Should any later proxy form lodged with your organization revoke an earlier proxy form lodged in relation to the same shares?
- How is the weighted average calculated for the profit before tax ratio criterion in the distributors simplification option?
- Do you make extensive use of open source and open standards in a way that can be controlled and benefits your organization?
- Why is it often difficult to introduce IT infrastructure cost optimization processes and actions within an enterprise?
- Does the routing algorithm support priority messaging and reduction of latency for delay sensitive real time traffic?
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 Simplification and Cost Optimization book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Simplification and Cost Optimization Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Simplification and Cost Optimization project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Project Schedule: Does the condition or event threaten the Simplification and Cost Optimization projects objectives in any ways?
- Project Performance Report: To what degree do team members frequently explore the teams purpose and its implications?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Does a process exist to identify which qualified resources may be attainable?
- Risk Management Plan: Are status updates being made on schedule and are the updates clearly described?
- Project Charter: What outcome, in measureable terms, are you hoping to accomplish?
- Source Selection Criteria: What benefits are accrued from issuing a DRFP in advance of issuing a final RFP?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Are performance reviews conducted regularly to assess the status of Simplification and Cost Optimization projects?
- Assumption and Constraint Log: Is the current scope of the Simplification and Cost Optimization project substantially different than that originally defined in the approved Simplification and Cost Optimization project plan?
- Human Resource Management Plan: Is documentation created for communication with the suppliers and Vendors?
- Duration Estimating Worksheet: When does your organization expect to be able to complete it?
Step-by-step and complete Simplification and Cost Optimization Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Simplification and Cost Optimization project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Simplification and Cost Optimization project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization project with this in-depth Simplification and Cost Optimization Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization 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 Simplification and Cost Optimization investments work better.
This Simplification and Cost Optimization 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.
