Strategy and Architecture Toolkit

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Be accountable for collaborating with a team of Planning and Supply Chain Solution Architects to build an End To End Planning Strategy and Architecture in partnership with Line Planning and Merchandising, Demand Planning, Supply, Material and Inventory Planning business and technical specialists.

More Uses of the Strategy and Architecture Toolkit:

  • Ensure you motivate; lead the technical Strategy and Architecture for the Ignite Automotive Connected Services Platform in particular and other activities for IoT, Mobile and Automotive products.

  • Contribute to the Strategy and Architecture for managing the enterprises data.

  • Drive: Strategy and Architecture.

  • Be accountable for establishing a consistent and progressive Strategy and Architecture for Unified Communications, exploiting new market opportunities as appropriate.

  • Ensure your organization leads or facilitates the analysis of industry, technology and Market Trends to determine potential impacts on the enterprises Data Warehouse Strategy and Architecture requirements.

  • Confirm your group defines application Technology Strategy and Architecture to ensure alignment with technology Industry Standards, application Technology Roadmap, and Business Needs.

  • Evaluate the impact of highly strategic projects across the enterprise, to ensure alignment with defined Technology Strategy and Architecture.

  • Secure that your group contributes to the development and maintenance of Information security Strategy and Architecture.

  • Formulate: Information security Strategy and Architecture.

  • Control: Data Management Strategy and Architecture.

  • Collaborate with other Engineering teams to ensure client Strategy and Architecture are effectively designed and integrated.

  • Govern: Budget Planning and control over IT Strategy and Architecture, and monitoring of project budgets.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Strategy and Architecture 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 Strategy and Architecture improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. How are measurements made?

  2. What is the funding source for this project?

  3. You may have created your quality measures at a time when you lacked resources, technology wasn't up to the required standard, or low Service Levels were the industry norm. Have those circumstances changed?

  4. What is the Strategy and Architectures sustainability risk?

  5. What are the Strategy and Architecture key cost drivers?

  6. How significant is the improvement in the eyes of the end user?

  7. What Strategy and Architecture capabilities do you need?

  8. How can you become the company that would put you out of business?

  9. Where do you gather more information?

  10. How do you use Strategy and Architecture data and information to support organizational Decision Making and innovation?


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 Strategy and Architecture book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Strategy and Architecture project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Strategy and Architecture Project Team have enough people to execute the Strategy and Architecture Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Strategy and Architecture Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Strategy and Architecture project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


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 Strategy and Architecture 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 Strategy and Architecture 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 Strategy and Architecture project with this in-depth Strategy and Architecture Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Strategy and Architecture 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 Strategy and Architecture 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 Strategy and Architecture investments work better.

This Strategy and Architecture 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.