Operational Improvement Toolkit

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Guide Operational Improvement: review and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with applications design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to Improve Product Quality and mitigate failure risk.

More Uses of the Operational Improvement Toolkit:

  • Establish Operational Improvement: proactively work with other members of your organization to identify and implement key opportunities for Operational Improvements.

  • Provide expertise and leadership to participating affiliates around sustainability planning, building programming, and Operational Improvements.

  • Evaluate corE Business processes to leverage opportunities for Operational Improvements with an emphasis on trends, Root Cause Analysis and Customer Centric metrics.

  • Identify risks and drive continuous improvements in Cloud and Digital Enablement products and tools through technological innovation, Operational Improvement, and championing adoption.

  • Ensure you steer; lead based on Business Intelligence and Analytics, champion Operational Improvement Projects to improve quality, productivity, On Time Delivery, Working Capital, and Customer Satisfaction.

  • Ensure you specify; lead Operational Improvement teams, utilizing Performance Improvement methodologies as Six Sigma, Lean, 5S, and Value Stream Mapping.

  • Escalate potential security incidents to client personnel or Level 2 Analysts, implements countermeasures in response to others, and recommend Operational Improvements.

  • Ensure you launch; lead standalone projects ranging from Operational Improvements to Strategic Planning in close collaboration with headquarter functions.

  • Manage work with internal and external customers to identify, develop, and implement Operational Improvements in all areas of Inventory Control, process efficiencies, purchasing E Commerce, Staff Development, freight management and other areas.

  • Drive execution of Learning Design Best Practices across the team and organization and continuously analyze results and impact for Operational Improvement.

  • Ensure you revolutionize; lead based on Business Intelligence and Analytics, champion Operational Improvement Projects to improve quality, productivity, On Time Delivery, Working Capital, and Customer Satisfaction.

  • Become skilled in designing and implementing Operational Improvement strategies for safety, cost, quality, training, inventory and services.

  • Ensure you lead; lead distributor review and top to top connects, build annual plans with distributors, drive Operational Improvement through measurement and Process Improvement.

  • Be accountable for identifying areas for Operational Improvements and Cost Reduction.

  • Control Operational Improvement: proactively work with other members of your organization to identify and implement key opportunities for Operational Improvements.

  • Identify Operational Improvement: proactively identify and implement Operational Improvements, enhancements, and system customizations to address evolving Business Needs.

  • Ensure you do cument; lead based on Business Intelligence and Analytics, champion Operational Improvement Projects to improve quality, productivity, On Time Delivery, Working Capital, and Customer Satisfaction.

  • Ensure you do cument; lead Data Science staff in strategy, discovery, innovation, and development of Machine Learning Models, forecasting, and Operational Improvements.

  • Ensure your organization provides consultative, technical and Decision Making support to leadership regarding Information System, financial and/or Operational Improvements and Growth Initiatives.

  • Identify and drive Operational Improvements; build or improve reporting and dashboards, Trend Analysis and provide thoughtful, relevant and insightful information for key Decision Making.

  • Ensure support functions achieve the Process Capability and Continual Improvement through measuring and Monitoring Performance and root cause Problem Solving to drive overall Operational Improvements.

  • Methodize Operational Improvement: proactively identify and implement Operational Improvements, enhancements, and system customizations to address evolving Business Needs.

  • Be certain that your organization provides consultative, technical and Decision Making support to leadership regarding Information System, financial and/or Operational Improvements and Growth Initiatives.

  • Identify opportunities for Operational Improvement and lead the development and implementation of related action plans.

  • Initiate Operational Improvement: map all stages of the existing Customer Engagement process, identifying opportunities for Operational Improvement, better communication or product offerings to better suit Customer Needs.

  • Drive Operational Improvement: proactively work with other members of your organization to identify and implement key opportunities for Operational Improvements.

  • Be accountable for navigating seamlessly between Strategic Design concepts and Operational Improvement Ideation.

  • Ensure you coach; lead assessment of strategies, capabilities, systems, and processes needed to drive Operational Improvement.

  • Orchestrate Operational Improvement: proactively monitors system performance and identifies Operational Improvements, in ensuring smooth and consistent customer and Business Partner delivery.

  • Participate in the design of Information System Business Impact Analysis, system categorization, Contingency Plans, privacy documents, and other system security documentation to maintain appropriate levels of protection and meet requirements for minimizing operational impact to the enterprise.

  • Formulate Operational Improvement: project change (scope, budget, schedule, Resource Management) using a Critical Path Method enterprise Information System management tool.

  • Become involved in designing in Quality Assurance process by authoring Test Cases pertaining to System Integration, Functional Testing, Performance Testing and Acceptance Testing.

 

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Operational Improvement 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 Improvement improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. How does your organization define, manage, and improve its Operational Improvement processes?

  2. How does Cost-to-Serve Analysis help?

  3. Are you satisfied with your current role? If not, what is missing from it?

  4. Can you measure the return on analysis?

  5. Who defines the rules in relation to any given issue?

  6. Are Operational Improvement changes recognized early enough to be approved through the regular process?

  7. What needs improvement? Why?

  8. What Operational Improvement data will be collected?

  9. What practices helps your organization to develop its capacity to recognize patterns?

  10. What is an unauthorized commitment?


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

Your Operational Improvement 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 Improvement Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Operational Improvement 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 Improvement 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 Improvement Projects with the 62 implementation resources:

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 Operational Improvement Project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


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 Operational Improvement 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 Improvement 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 Improvement Project with this in-depth Operational Improvement Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Operational Improvement 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 Improvement 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 Improvement investments work better.

This Operational Improvement 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.