Competitor Research Toolkit

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Supervise Competitor Research: conduct review of your organizations compliance to policies in the areas of lending, deposits, new products, etc.

More Uses of the Competitor Research Toolkit:

  • Determine market needs and opportunities by conducting and analyzing user, industry and Competitor Research to inform product vision and strategy.

  • Perform relevant scientific and information analysis, particularly in relation to searching competitor information and scientific literature.

  • Perform SEO competitive SWOT Analysis to identify areas of opportunities and threats from competitor activity to algorithm updates.

  • Head Competitor Research: Competitor analysis and testing of various security products.

  • Methodize Competitor Research: monitor competitor activity, perform Competitive Analysis and identify keyword gaps in your content.

  • Pilot Competitor Research: benchmark competitor product system and subsystem performance to influence the design by setting system and component specifications.

  • Secure that your organization oversees research and analysis of competitors, existing trends, changes in competitor technology strategies and New Business Opportunities.

  • Head Competitor Research: continuously track competitor group and bids, pricing strategy, personnel changes, and other news flow.

  • Pilot Competitor Research: leverage multiple sources of analytics (web analytics, Voice Of Customer, competitor intelligence) to understand web site performance and visitor behavior.

  • Communicate frontier and competitor pricing actions to Revenue Management and commercial teams.

  • Develop Competitor Research: monitor competitor Social Media Platforms to ensure you are informed on other organizations campaign activity, breaking news and trends.

  • Orchestrate Competitor Research: track and communicate key competitor actions to Management Team regarding product launches, partnerships, and brand/marketing/channel strategy.

  • Collaborate with team members and members of other teams on how technology can be used to match or outpace competitor performance.

  • Create strategic and integrated Product Development plans which are aligned with Business Objectives and are differentiated from competitor products.

  • Formulate Competitor Research: research Market intelligence and competitor offerings on assigned commodity groups, remain current on all products available or forthcoming to the market and proactively source existing and new parts and identify appropriate suppliers.

  • Guide Competitor Research: leverage multiple sources of analytics (web analytics, Voice Of Customer, competitor intelligence) to understand web site performance and visitor behavior.

  • Confirm your project oversees research and analysis of competitors, existing trends, changes in competitor technology strategies and New Business Opportunities.

  • Coordinate Competitor Research: leverage multiple sources of analytics (web analytics, Voice Of Customer, competitor intelligence) to understand web site performance and visitor behavior.

  • Supervise Competitor Research: new consumer trends through market and Competitor analysis, to ensure that your soft good products are modern, competitive, and differentiating for your brands.

  • Keep abreast of market and competitive activity; recommend actions in areas where competitor activities are having a negative impact on sales goals.

  • Control Competitor Research: conduct ongoing strategic and competitive research to systematically track industry and competitor developments, understand trends, and proactively identify Emerging Threats and opportunities for the business.

  • Be accountable for participating in product investment Strategy development by providing Product Line profitability; and market and Competitor analysis and benchmarking.

  • Develop Competitor Research: leverage multiple sources of analytics (web analytics, Voice Of Customer, competitor intelligence) to understand web site performance and visitor behavior.

  • Make sure that your planning oversees research and analysis of competitors, existing trends, changes in competitor technology strategies and New Business Opportunities.

  • Manage work with brand lead to plan, coordinate and help execute key competitor workshops (War games, Gap Analysis, scenario planning) to prepare teams for future potential competitor threat.

  • Analyze and compare your organizations product offering to competitor offerings and recommend new product additions for expansion of current Product Lines.

  • Direct Competitor Research: proactively read the customer and market segments and implement responses to competitor activity and market changes.

  • Stay up to date on trends, changes, and competitor actions that might affect your clients.

  • Assure your planning incorporates findings and provides industry and competitor insights as part of Model Development/enhancement.

  • Standardize Competitor Research: leverage multiple sources of analytics (web analytics, Voice Of Customer, competitor intelligence) to understand web site performance and visitor behavior.

  • Control Competitor Research: research and incorporate new technologies, standards, and adapt to changing infrastructure needs.

  • Secure that your corporation complies; owns service process end to end console returned from the field through service and on shelf for redistribution.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Competitor Research 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 Competitor Research improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. Will there be any necessary staff changes (redundancies or new hires)?

  2. Is it needed?

  3. Can the schedule be done in the given time?

  4. Who will facilitate the team and process?

  5. What is something you believe that nearly no one agrees with you on?

  6. Are assumptions made in Competitor Research stated explicitly?

  7. What are evaluation criteria for the output?

  8. How do you verify if Competitor Research is built right?

  9. Who is responsible for Competitor Research?

  10. Are all staff in core Competitor Research subjects Highly Qualified?


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 Competitor Research book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:

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

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Competitor Research 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 Competitor Research 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 Competitor Research investments work better.

This Competitor Research 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.