Alternatives Analysis Toolkit

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Direct Alternatives Analysis: monitor and review performance of Social Content and provide Best Practice guidance for teams.

More Uses of the Alternatives Analysis Toolkit:

  • Ensure you deliver; good Analytical Skills and readiness to perform Alternatives Analysis and to find the best possible option.

  • Manage knowledge in Systems Engineering techniques as architecture modeling, Alternatives Analysis, trade off analysis, and portfolio analysis.

  • Ensure you champion; lead with knowledge in Systems Engineering techniques as architecture modeling, Alternatives Analysis, trade off analysis, and portfolio analysis.

  • Ensure you invent; lead with knowledge in Systems Engineering techniques as architecture modeling, Alternatives Analysis, trade off analysis, and portfolio analysis.

  • Evaluate new IT developments and evolving Business Requirements and recommend appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems by analyzing Business Processes, systems and Industry Standards.

  • Warrant that your organization evaluates moderately complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information.

  • Establish that your organization leads the team in assessing strengths and weaknesses of the program, and exploring alternatives for improvements.

  • Arrange that your enterprise analyzes challenges, defines successful solution alternatives and proactively solves problems.

  • Be accountable for leading Problem Management for security to identify root cause and alternatives to Mitigate Risk.

  • Ensure you coordinate; recommend alternatives on migrating the Application Portfolio to best align with Business Needs and to optimize maintainability and performance.

  • Standardize Alternatives Analysis: review and approve high level Data Flows, Functional And Technical Specifications, system implementation staging, Change Control, design alternatives and functional System Requirements.

  • Collaborate with all stakeholders to establish requirements and consider alternatives that promote effectiveness, efficiency, and Customer Satisfaction.

  • Establish that your corporation provides in depth engineering analysis of network alternatives in support of clients strategic modernization efforts and network enhancement design for medium and large scale network infrastructures.

  • Adhere to Software Development life cycle (SDLC) and technology architecture requirements; proactively identify alternatives and recommend/implement solutions as appropriate.

  • Develop models for the evaluation of new business alternatives that incorporate analysis of the key variables.

  • Steer Alternatives Analysis: identification of Customer Requirements, Analysis of Alternatives and conducting product recommendations associated with platform, software, security, and network configurations.

  • Establish that your organization analyzes business data domains and participates in recommendations of creative solutions; follows a logical process and helps prepare alternatives in a way that enables Decision Making.

  • Ensure your organization complies; partners with client group to identify key human resource issues, outlines strategic alternatives and recommends action plans to executives and the leadership team in order to improvE Business results.

  • Arrange that your group helps clients evaluate sourcing and location alternatives for Service Delivery model.

  • Be certain that your organization provides guidance and support for event planning and execution and develops client specific information system Risk Management alternatives and Implementation Plans.

  • Make sure that your organization complies; partners with client group to identify key human resource issues, outlines strategic alternatives and recommends action plans to executives and the leadership team in order to improvE Business results.

  • Make sure that your planning complies; address constraints and other problems with creative alternatives to keep projects on track.

  • Be accountable for identifying and analyzing existing or potential problem areas to suggest solutions or alternatives to eliminate the existence of procedures or practices which contribute to the problem.

  • Evaluate processes and related controls and consider appropriateness and alternatives while balancing the needs and functions of thE Business with regulatory and fiduciary considerations.

  • Oversee Alternatives Analysis: critically and logically evaluates the costs, risks, and benefits of alternatives before making decisions.

  • Be accountable for exercising sound judgment when evaluating situations, initiating action, and developing alternatives based upon using established procedures and regulations and implementing recovery principles.

  • Ensure your organization evaluates moderately complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information.

  • Devise Alternatives Analysis: own all customer issues identify the correct person or resource to fix the issue; proactively research alternatives when the appropriate resource is unavailable.

  • Arrange that your organization evaluates in depth Market Analysis and leads Business Case for optimization of existing products/solutions alternatives and/or to create the next generation of new products.

  • Establish and maintain an environment conducive to Continuous Improvement manufacturing; recommend alternatives for improving production methods, equipment, operating procedures and Working Conditions.

  • Organize Alternatives Analysis: conduct host and network forensics, Log Analysis, and Malware Analysis in support of Incident Response investigations.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What Alternatives Analysis standards are applicable?

  2. What are your key Performance Measures or indicators and in process measures for the control and improvement of your Alternatives Analysis processes?

  3. How do you build the right Business Case?

  4. Are there recognized Alternatives Analysis problems?

  5. What trouble can you get into?

  6. What qualifications and skills do you need?

  7. How will you measure success?

  8. Where is the data coming from to measure compliance?

  9. How much data can be collected in the given timeframe?

  10. What are predictive Alternatives Analysis analytics?


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 Alternatives Analysis book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

  • 62 step-by-step Alternatives Analysis Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Alternatives Analysis Project Team have enough people to execute the Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Alternatives Analysis project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Alternatives Analysis Project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis project with this in-depth Alternatives Analysis Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis 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 Alternatives Analysis investments work better.

This Alternatives Analysis 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.