Evaluate Adaptive Sourcing: monitor data source systems to ensure all updates are operating as intended; troubleshoot by identifying flaws and errors in the data and any upstream Data Issues.



More Uses of the Adaptive Sourcing Toolkit:




• Drive Adaptive Sourcing: conduct Workforce Planning using analysis that takes into account Disruptive Technology and Adaptive Sourcing strategies.
  
  

• Assure your planning adopts appropriate Project Management methods and tools whether predictive (plan driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
  
  

• Stay connected and apprised of external marketplace trends in training; seek out leading technology trends to improve training processes as E Learning, mobilE Learning, video based training, Virtual Learning environments, and adaptivE Learning.
  
  

• Ensure your project complies; Requirements Definition and management contributes to the selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
  
  

• Audit Adaptive Sourcing: adaptive and team oriented contributors supports the eDiscovery group and Project Teams with data intake, tracking, and shipping.
  
  

• Ensure you build adaptive Network Security capabilities that protect valuable organization data and drive accountability and transparency in daily operations.
  
  

• Manage advanced authentication concepts like multi factor, risk based, and adaptive authentication.
  
  

• Establish Adaptive Sourcing: coach client executives and stakeholders in Adaptive Leadership, change communications, and Organizational Change Management.
  
  

• Direct Adaptive Sourcing: additional opportunities are with your newly acquired Business Planning and Financial Modeling tool, Adaptive Insights.
  
  

• Assure your organization adopts appropriate Project Management methods and tools whether predictive (plan driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
  
  

• Drive Adaptive Sourcing: algorithm development in areas as pattern or gesture recognition, adaptive filters, MachinE Learning, sensor / Image Processing, or controls.
  
  

• Support Adaptive Insights Software Maintenance and development projects.
  
  

• Support to Change Management, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning, Adaptive Management or other related field.
  
  

• Foster a lean Agile culture that is adaptive and evolving to the needs of thE Business and team, with bias for continuous and iterative improvement, Team Collaboration, and customer results (code).
  
  

• Ensure you are organized and analytical, and able to eliminate implementation obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches.
  
  

• Govern Adaptive Sourcing: algorithm development in areas as pattern or gesture recognition, adaptive filters, MachinE Learning, sensor / Image Processing, or controls.
  
  

• Direct Adaptive Sourcing: partner with Talent Management and Resource Management offices to hire and staff adaptive planning consultants.
  
  

• Facilitate the adaptive implementation process from start to finish.
  
  

• Ensure you head; build adaptive Network Security capabilities that protect valuable organization data and drive accountability and transparency in daily operations.
  
  

• Ensure you keep updated with Industry Trends and can suggest workarounds, investigations so the team can be adaptive as opposed to reactive to trends.
  
  

• Ensure your enterprise adopts appropriate Project Management methods and tools whether predictive (plan driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
  
  

• Ensure Service Delivery meets thE Business requirements of the sourcing strategy (based on defined SLAs) and align Service Delivery capacity to business demands, while managing Customer Satisfaction.
  
  

• Guide Adaptive Sourcing: direct the development of infrastructure sourcing strategy and providing executive oversight for strategic vendor and partner Relationship Management.
  
  

• Govern Adaptive Sourcing: in conjunction with the logistics sourcing managers, logistics support, and logistics analytics, work with internal and external parties to bring issues to complete resolution.
  
  

• Audit Adaptive Sourcing: operational and Spend Analysis, development and execution of annual sourcing strategies, vendor negotiations, vendor Performance Management and operational support.
  
  

• Keep up to date with Channel Management activities and potential use of new sourcing channels social networking sites, Web Technologies, etc.
  
  

• Initiate Adaptive Sourcing: jointly Lead cross Functional Management to plan sourcing strategies and Supplier Management programs aligned with Business Objectives.
  
  

• Collaborate with cross functional teams in support of process reengineering and related procurement initiatives to adopt sourcing Best Practices and controls and support project and Change Management.
  
  

• Manage work with Program Management, Product Development, Risk Management, and operations on New Product Development and product enhancement programs to ensure effective sourcing of materials to meet specifications, material requirements, and pricing from suppliers.
  
  

• Evaluate clients technology estate (application, infrastructure, network) rationalization opportunities, sourcing options, economic models, risk posture, and recommend Strategic Direction.
  
  

• Be accountable for developing Metrics And Reporting systems necessary to track progress and identify key improvement areas across all Manufacturing Systems.
  
  




 



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



STEP 1: Get your bearings



Start with...




• The latest quick edition of the Adaptive Sourcing 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 Adaptive Sourcing improvements can be made.



Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:




1. Does Adaptive Sourcing appropriately measure and monitor risk?
   
   

2. What are evaluation criteria for the output?
   
   

3. What relationships among Adaptive Sourcing trends do you perceive?
   
   

4. What tools do you use once you have decided on a Adaptive Sourcing strategy and more importantly how do you choose?
   
   

5. What may be the consequences for the performance of an organization if all stakeholders are not consulted regarding Adaptive Sourcing?
   
   

6. What causes extra work or rework?
   
   

7. Can you add value to the current Adaptive Sourcing decision-making process (largely qualitative) by incorporating uncertainty modeling (more quantitative)?
   
   

8. Have you made assumptions about the shape of the future, particularly its impact on your customers and competitors?
   
   

9. How is the way you as the leader think and process information affecting your organizational culture?
   
   

10. How does your organization define, manage, and improve its Adaptive Sourcing processes?
    
    




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




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




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

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



1.0 Initiating Process Group:




• 1.1 Adaptive Sourcing project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix




2.0 Planning Process Group:




• 2.1 Adaptive Sourcing Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Adaptive Sourcing 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 Adaptive Sourcing 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 Adaptive Sourcing 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 Adaptive Sourcing 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 Adaptive Sourcing project with this in-depth Adaptive Sourcing Toolkit.



In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:




• Diagnose Adaptive Sourcing 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 Adaptive Sourcing 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 Adaptive Sourcing investments work better.



This Adaptive Sourcing 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.