Added Today: Duty of Care | End of Contract | AI and ML tools | Service Provider | Go to Market Plan | New Product Ideas

Published: Mon, 03/27/23


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Go to Market Plan

1. Is the goal automation and standardizing workflows, increasing collaboration across departments, or speeding up time to market or reducing throughput time?

2. Do you have a single view of your warehousing inventory across all your go to market channel operations?

3. Which media plan is more effective assuming the competitors future media plan is its historical plan?

Purchase Data Set for 971 measures:  

Verification of Data

1. Does the solution provide transparent maintenance of encryption and verification key history, allowing users to transparently decrypt or verify archived data encrypted or signed under old keys?

2. How do you verify and use data from various digital channels, including the role of independent suppliers and systems in the management of digital campaigns and the verification of the results?

3. Is one or more of the verification team too sympathetic to the project developers interests by virtue of a close relationship with a project developer, its directors, officer or employees?

Purchase Data Set for 972 measures:  

Climate Change and Sustainability

1. How well does your organization understand the impact of climate change and natural disasters on its sustainability, and how responsibly is it managing its own carbon footprint?

2. What is the likelihood and impact of changes in demand for your organizations products and services due to climate change, and implications for its business model?

3. Are climate change, environmental and sustainability risks factored into the supply chain management processes along with human rights and ethics?

Purchase Data Set for 983 yardsticks:  

Community Development

1. What fosters knowledge exchange and how are stakeholders driven by incentives to build a larger community of practice to work together in the area of capacity development in data and statistics?

2. Are there innovative methods of engagement and participation, including by mobilizing community members or targeting beneficiaries during the planning, implementation and follow up processes?

3. How do you collaborate with others to make your planning and services more accessible and responsive to community needs; expand or fill gaps in your service and provide more options?

Purchase Data Set for 924 measures:  

Big Data Analytics

1. What additional audit tests does your organization perform over audit areas/processes where internal audit uses data analytics?

2. How did the external auditor reliance on the work of internal auditors influence your decision to adopt data analytics?

3. How does your teams use of data analytics affect the nature, timing, and extent of your organizations audit testing?

Purchase Data Set for 719 criterions:  

Governance and Planning

1. What processes were most/least effective in engaging organization officials to share evidence and influence governance issues to strengthen inclusive policy and planning?

2. Does your organization have the right people/resources to effectively lead cybersecurity and data privacy strategic planning and implementation?

3. Will all relevant stakeholders be willing and able to convene in person for the strategic planning workshops and necessary data collections?

Purchase Data Set for 803 benchmarks:  

Agile Project Management

1. What are the most effective approaches to managing the business of IT, including the role of architecture, strategic planning, agile project management and platform adoption?

2. Are there agile project management tools for creating user stories, managing sprints and releases, and tracking progress with scrum boards and burn down charts?

3. Which is the best way for a project manager to ensure efficient and frequent communication with management and stakeholders in an agile/adaptive environment?

Purchase Data Set for 990 principles:  

Service Provider

1. What is the best way to grow your revenue as a managed service provider, differentiate your business from the competition, increase profitability and make the most of your limited resources?

2. How will the asset managers using the jurisdiction respond to changing needs and multi strategy demand and how will service providers need to change the offering to remain relevant?

3. Can you identify any significant risks or exposures to Service Provider third- parties (vendors, service providers, alliance partners etc) that concern you?

Purchase Data Set for 999 measures:  

Cost of Compliance

1. Does management know what the true cost of compliance is and, if so, has the cost of administering compliance processes become expensive enough to warrant closer attention?

2. Does the vendor support your strategic and operational needs, including analytics, workflows, plan design, audit and compliance, and other key functions?

3. Are there opportunities to lower compliance costs to industry and provide greater certainty and protection to users of cloud services?

Purchase Data Set for 939 measures:  

Reporting and Business Intelligence

1. To what extent does each concerned units management team recognize Reporting and Business Intelligence as an effective investment?

2. Does Reporting and Business Intelligence create potential expectations in other areas that need to be recognized and considered?

3. Does Reporting and Business Intelligence systematically track and analyze outcomes for accountability and quality improvement?

Purchase Data Set for 991 standards:  

Network Design and Planning

1. How long a period will your organization be affected by broad spectrum strategic planning that may involve a focus on achieving long range organizational objectives?

2. Are your organizations financial reporting, strategic planning, budgetary, purchasing and vendor payment processes consistent with leading practices?

3. Will workforce financial planning blur into strategic planning, as technology enables constant transition rather than specific transformation?

Purchase Data Set for 980 principles:  

Quality Management Plan

1. Does the planning process include a description of how the acquired data will be analyzed, evaluated, and assessed against its intended use and the quality performance criteria?

2. What efforts or investments has your organization made to ensure decision makers have access to actionable, high quality data/information/ insights?

3. What efforts or investments has your organization made to ensure decisionmakers have access to actionable, high quality data/information/insights?

Purchase Data Set for 796 yardsticks:  

General Data Protection

1. What will be the process by which departments request access to, or be provided with, retained data?

2. Is there a general description of the information/data being made available, exchanged, or passed?

3. Which information would be most useful in assisting the next level responder with data clean up?

Purchase Data Set for 914 metrics:  

Positive Work Environment

1. Do you provide evidence that policies, standards, and procedures have been established for maintaining a safe and secure working environment in offices, rooms, facilities, and secure areas?

2. How do you create an agile business environment so that your workforce is able to work flexibly from any location, on any device and still feel part of the fabric of your organization?

3. Are you an experienced and influential digital professional working at a senior leadership level with a background of delivery in a complex environment?

Purchase Data Set for 997 measures:  

Project Portfolio Management

1. What process are used to authorize, initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close project portfolios, project programs and projects?

2. How do you oversee management of project portfolios, project programs, and projects from the executive office level?

3. What arguments will you use to support the use of project portfolio management in the project environments?

Purchase Data Set for 990 yardsticks:  

Software Quality Assurance

1. Does require experience keeps people give your development role of in quality assurance software development so it and has the standards are various types of software?

2. What is quality, software quality control, quality management and quality assurance What makes software quality different than other products quality?

3. Has the provider given details of quality assurance methods employed, recognized Quality Management systems, written assurances?

Purchase Data Set for 994 criteria:  

Enterprise Business Intelligence

1. What are the pitfalls in the manufacturing industry business strategy formulation process that lead to unbalanced linkage between manufacturing and commercial functional operations strategies?

2. Is the throughput of business, goods, manufacturing processes, services or information made difficult or slow due to errors in information or inefficient data handling?

3. What are you most concerned about when it comes to restarting your manufacturing operations, distribution centers, critical business centers, and office environments?

Purchase Data Set for 995 norms:  

Business Development

1. Is there a need to drive culture change and an increased recognition of, and enthusiasm for business development and extending relationships with clients?

2. Who is competing for an existing or potential clients legal business and how does your organizations services and experiences compare to its competitors?

3. How does the use of low code development platforms to build business applications impact organizational interests?

Purchase Data Set for 994 yardsticks:  

Business Policies and Practices

1. Are the necessary fiscal and human resources, tools, skills and knowledge to support and improve culturally appropriate policies and practices in your organization available?

2. How does your organization measure the extent to which sustainability is embedded in the business?

3. Which policies and practices are core, and which should be designed to be business unit specific?

Purchase Data Set for 994 measures:  

Impacts of Technology

1. What are the likely impacts of automation and other digitalisation on the workforce, and is the business ensuring it has the skills required to enable that technology?

2. Is it to implement a regulatory regime addressing individual impacts, or to be a steward and champion of the environment as an integrated, functional ecosystem?

3. Is there a direct link between the learning from your evaluation and the strengthened performance, quality and impacts of your programs and services?

Purchase Data Set for 946 principles:  

Management System Standards

1. Did contract and project management fully comply with established procedures and result in efficiently and effectively implemented EDMS applications?

2. Are there any other finance related challenges that will affect implementation of Risk, Compliance and Business Continuity Management system?

3. Which types of data management systems, platforms, or services are currently in use by your organization, either on premises or in the cloud?

Purchase Data Set for 993 benchmarks:  

Safety and Compliance Issues

1. Does your organization undertake or subcontract inspection and analyses which are critical to confirm product safety, legality and quality, using appropriate procedures, facilities and standards?

2. Are there any sections of the testing and component part regulations that could be revised to be made less burdensome while still being consistent with assuring compliance?

3. Can digital systems work well enough to ensure the safety of products, security of consumers and organization information, and compliance with regulatory requirements?

Purchase Data Set for 999 measures:  

Visibility of Data

1. How do you use the data that already exists internal and external to your organization to better identify and predict emerging changes in the risk environment?

2. Which can be considered the biggest data specific challenges of using location technology at your organization?

3. Does Visibility of Data systematically track and analyze outcomes for accountability and quality improvement?

Purchase Data Set for 992 standards:  

End of Contract

1. Do you get your data back if the vendor goes out of business or when the contract ends, and how much will it cost to get it back?

2. Has your organization failed or refused to complete, or terminated services prior to the ending date of a contract term?

3. What are the penalties if you discontinue the sequestration project before the end of the contract?

Purchase Data Set for 990 benchmarks:  

Global Supply Chain

1. How does your organization optimize links between customers, focal companies, and suppliers to align sustainable productions targets across international supply chains?

2. How was the data collected at the beginning of the supply chain used as baseline for measuring the performance of the facility to see if key objectives are being met?

3. What is the carbon footprint of logistics of materials and products through global supply chains, as a % of total carbon footprint?

Purchase Data Set for 999 criterions:  

Duty of Care

1. How are you providing reassurance and consistent messaging to all staff and showing a duty of care?

2. Do you need a restatement of the duty of care or alternatively a statutory business judgment rule?

3. What are the legal and moral duty of care obligations of each partner to each other, if any?

Purchase Data Set for 995 principles:  

Structure and Governance

1. Do you need support to establish or make your governance and management structures stronger?

2. Are suitable governance and investment frameworks in place?

3. Is environmental governance substantive or symbolic?

Purchase Data Set for 993 criteria:  

Coaching and Development

1. Is workplace coaching effective in terms of delivering individual learning and development, and improvements in performance and results for organizations?

2. How is workforce planning and development integrated into your organizations overall strategic planning process?

3. What awareness have you developed about professional coaching as a result of your learning and development?

Purchase Data Set for 957 measures:  

AI and ML tools

1. Why require an engineer to spend valuable time collecting and manipulating data from different tools when that time could be better spent on analysis and problem solving?

2. What concerns do you have about the use of intelligent automation tools as robotics process automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning tools?

3. Which tools/methods from the risk management plan can be used to identify a risk, which is based on project objectives by category?

Purchase Data Set for 990 yardsticks:  

Warehouse Management Software

1. Will you need visibility to existing warehouse inventory levels for third parties who are outside the warehouse staff members?

2. Are all items delivered to, and pass through, the warehouse process, or are some drop shipped to the end user?

3. Do you have an inventory or warehouse management system that tracks bulk receiving of raw materials?

Purchase Data Set for 995 benchmarks:  

Asset Management Plan

1. What exit processes are in place to manage the transition away from the usage of the asset at the end of its operational service?

2. Are asset management and malware protection policies and procedures reviewed and updated at least annually?

3. How important is it to integrate your capital/brownfield project systems to your asset management systems?

Purchase Data Set for 848 principles:  

Data Analysis and Visualization

1. Does visualization inform upstream data and policy analysis, or does it follow, focusing on projecting background and options conclusions already arrived at?

2. Are there expectations of written reporting and analysis for the data outside the computed visualizations and machine executed analysis?

3. Does the lineage transition across different stages, from ingestion to transformation and later to the visualizations and analysis?

Purchase Data Set for 993 criterions:  

Access and Governance

1. Are persons with knowledge about the data, knowledge of how the data may be used by the business, and its sensitivity the people best qualified to make access control decisions?

2. Do you believe that migration to a hybrid multi cloud environment will force companies to invest more money into automated tools to ensure data governance and access control?

3. How can one platform corral all that analytics activity, provide easy access for all levels of users, and provide model governance across all types of analytics projects?

Purchase Data Set for 873 standards:  

Analytics for Decision Makers

1. Which department do decision makers in your organization/business unit turn to for market research/insights?

2. How can the information be reported in a meaningful manner to assist decision making?

3. How does forward looking business intelligence help decision makers and lower risk?

Purchase Data Set for 930 yardsticks:  

Third Party Review

1. Does internal audit normally perform independent validation and verification activities related to system implementations or is that review outsourced to a third party?

2. Do you mandate annual information security reviews and audits of your third party providers to ensure that all agreed upon security requirements are met?

3. What are your views on the model validation and quality review of the asset and liability models and on due diligence on third party model providers?

Purchase Data Set for 993 metrics:  

New Product Ideas

1. Is the rate of progress of the development project satisfactory against the expectations to deliver a viable design at the desired level of technology/product maturity in a timely manner?

2. Which expectations do external stakeholders have on the output of the new product development process and how do expectations relate to value creation for your organization as a whole?

3. When evaluating a new product development project using net present value analysis, which will make the project more attractive?

Purchase Data Set for 833 yardsticks:  

Data Analysis and Reporting

1. Are there ways of improving the working relationship with your organization, including media planning, reporting, data analysis and deadlines for submitting information?

2. How many viewers will read the reports, how many users will input data into reports, and how many people will administrate the solution?

3. How much effort does it take for your teams to access data and transform it into a format fit for use in reporting and analysis?

Purchase Data Set for 921 metrics:  
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