Pilot Competitive Edge: effectively utilize Problem Solving skills and techniques to identify potential issues, assess the impact, and develop and implement mitigation and resolution plans and activities at the system level.

More Uses of the Competitive Edge Toolkit:


• Arrange that your business expands or modifies the system to serve new purposes or improve work flow; references technological trends to suggest technical solutions to enhance the Competitive Edge of the business.
  
  

• Drive Competitive Edge: monitor and assess Competitive Products and programs and as a result develop and implement proactive strategies to strengthen the Product Lines Competitive Edge.
  
  

• Coordinate Competitive Edge: monitor and assess Competitive Products and programs and as a result develop and implement proactive strategies to strengthen the Product Lines Competitive Edge.
  
  

• Systematize Competitive Edge: work closely with Field Sales, Inside Sales, marketing, Professional Services and competitive Research Team to help better understand your market and Competitive Landscape.
  
  

• Head Competitive Edge: leverage Competitive intelligence to identify new client opportunities or existing opportunities with current clients.
  
  

• Use market, technical, and Competitive intelligence to build partnerships with other technical organizations based on Organization Strategy and drive opportunities through your partnerships.
  
  

• Ensure you build; build and run a Technical Product Management function that is able to help drive Product Strategy through Competitive Analysis and support your corporate development efforts.
  
  

• Confirm your team coordinates inventory/supply management by reviewing monthly inventory count and approving purchase orders for necessary items to ensure cost containment, timely distribution and competitive pricing.
  
  

• Ensure you direct; lead your organizations Information security strategy and implementation to create a competitive advantage and be your customer facing security expertise.
  
  

• Make sure that your operation organizes and drive advanced Technology Innovation, Competitive Analysis, technology assessment, and prototype lab functions.
  
  

• Ensure you mobilize; understand users the marketplace the competition and future trends for the domain or type of system being developed through customer and Market Research Competitive Analysis rapidly acquiring domain expertise.
  
  

• Ensure you guide, understand the agronomy marketplace from a value and competitive standpoint and develop strategic plan on agronomy sales and market perspective.
  
  

• Develop strategic Marketing Plans for a product or Product Line through Market Research, Competitive Analysis, pricing, Customer Engagement, and Business Planning.
  
  

• Identify Market Trends, competitive activities and Business Opportunities and focus on Product Lines / organization maximizing and optimizing performance to meet or exceed operating objectives through the effective development and presentation of strategic, market and Product Development plans.
  
  

• Drive Competitive Edge: deep industry awareness with leading capabilities providers to enhance your solutions offerings and close gaps in offerings yielding competitive technical solutions.
  
  

• Support Product Management with product feature Gap Analysis, competitive threats and product launch strategies derived from Competitive Analysis.
  
  

• Orchestrate Competitive Edge: research and understand market needs, trends and competitive offerings to identify Strategic Partnerships, go to market strategy and long term revenue growth.
  
  

• Stay abreast of key Industry Trends, competitive insights and emerging Social Media, marketing, and e commerce technologies.
  
  

• Evaluate Competitive Edge: conduct research on Industry Trends, Competitive intelligence, and market data leveraging internal and external sources to compile assessment of strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis for existing product capabilities.
  
  

• Lead and/or lead design/build Pre Construction Services to ensure high quality, competitive estimates and schedules.
  
  

• Confirm your organization utilizes sales planning and Market Research to accomplish ongoing analysis of Competitive Products, selling techniques, Consumer Research, marketing legislation, new products, pricing and distribution.
  
  

• Steer Competitive Edge: market insights continuously monitor, analyze, and report on competitive activities, New Business Opportunities, regulatory developments, customer perceptions, and market needs.
  
  

• Ensure your organization provides technical expertise to sales organization in selecting, implementing and developing competitive product and services applications and solutions.
  
  

• Guide Competitive Edge: transformation strategy skills as Competitive Analysis, Market Entry strategy, Corporate Strategy, value prop articulation.
  
  

• Make sure that your organization utilizes sales planning and Market Research to accomplish ongoing analysis of Competitive Products, selling techniques, Consumer Research, marketing legislation, new products, pricing and distribution.
  
  

• Drive Competitive Edge: review pricing and bring forward any competitive disadvantages or profit opportunities present in the market.
  
  

• Ensure you assess; lead your enterprise Information security strategy and implementation to create a competitive advantage and be your customer facing security expertise.
  
  

• Ensure you succeed; lead voice of Customer Engagements to discover end user, market and competitive use case requirements into a differentiated offering for security services.
  
  

• Perform financial, statistical, and Qualitative Data analysis and profiling of markets, channels, competitors, and Competitive Products.
  
  

• Manage work with departments and business units to understand competitive threats and develop Marketing Plans to protect customer base.
  
  

• Develop cutting edge solutions to maximize the performance, scalability, and Distributed Processing capabilities of the system.
  
  

• Audit Competitive Edge: track and forecast internal and external trends, identify potential impacts and apply domain and industry knowledge to offering development and business line strategy.
  
  


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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Competitive Edge 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 Competitive Edge improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. Are you assessing Competitive Edge and risk?
   
   

2. Are audit criteria, scope, frequency and methods defined?
   
   

3. What Competitive Edge data do you gather or use now?
   
   

4. Are there recognized Competitive Edge problems?
   
   

5. Have you defined which data is gathered how?
   
   

6. Do the Competitive Edge decisions you make today help your organization in three years time?
   
   

7. Implementation planning: is a pilot needed to test the changes before a full roll out occurs?
   
   

8. What adjustments to the strategies are needed?
   
   

9. What do people want to verify?
   
   

10. Do the viable solutions scale to future needs?
    
    


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


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


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

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Competitive Edge project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Competitive Edge Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Competitive Edge 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 Competitive Edge 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 Competitive Edge 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 Competitive Edge 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 Competitive Edge project with this in-depth Competitive Edge Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Competitive Edge 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 Competitive Edge 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 Competitive Edge investments work better.

This Competitive Edge 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.